Sharon Creech – författare

Heroes and Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring an array of characters-with and without capes. Featuring ten all-new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to comics to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featuring eleven of the most acclaimed, exciting writers for kids working today, this collection is the perfect book for you, whether you use your powers for good-or evil. Authors include Laurie Halse Anderson, Cathy Camper and Raul Gonzalez, Sharon Creech, Jack Gantos, Christopher Healy, Deborah Hopkinson, Ingrid Law, Pam Munoz Ryan, Lemony Snicket, and Eugene Yelchin, with illustrations by Jeff Stokely.

To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti – she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It’s a journey that leads her to unravel the dark secrets of her aunt’s life – and her own. And while Zinny chases ghosts in the woods, gorgeous Jake Boone is determined to chase her . . .

Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.What is the meaning of this strange message left on the doorstep? Only Sal knows, and on a roadtrip with her grandparents she tells the bizarre tale of Phoebe Winterbottom, Phoebe’s disappearing mother and the lunatic. But who can help Sal make sense of the mystery that surrounds her own story . . . and her own missing mother?

Slowly Jack learns the pleasures of writing poetry as Miss Stretchberry encourages him to tell his own story through verse. What emerges is a moving and memorable story about a boy and his dog and his growing passion for poetry.

Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2003Tiller and Sairy live a quiet life in Ruby Holler; their children have long since left home and things are peaceful. But when they decide to adopt two children from the local orphanage to take on a giant adventure, they form an unlikely foursome. And Tiller and Sairy have to deal with some pretty unconventional behaviour on the part of the children, who don’t believe they could ever be ‘wanted’.A wonderful, magical story that combines quirky action and adventure with family, loyalty and learning to belong.

Pia and Enzo dream of living in the beautiful Castle Corona, having an easier life and getting as far away as possible from their mean old master. One day, when the brother and sister find a missing pouch containing some princely treasure, their lives take an unexpected, and rather royal, change of direction.But things in the castle are not always what they seem . . . A wonderful fairytale story in which lives collide, mysteries unfold and people come to realise their dreams from a Carnegie and Newbery Medal winning author