Alison: 1980 books

Raven shapeshifter Morrigan spent years gathering souls for her demon master Akram--and indulging in wicked fantasies about him. Now Morrigan only has one more soul to collect before she can go free. But Akram isn't ready to let his favorite huntress go. Not without giving in to his maddening desire for her first...

A cold case waits to be solved . . . and a killer waits in the wings*.* Amy was seven years old when her father was arrested for murder. His subsequent trial and conviction scarred her childhood and cast a shadow over her life until, twenty-two years later, new evidence suggests he was innocent...

Twelve-year-old Luke "Spin" Spinelli is sick of fake running, fake laughing and fake pointing. Sure, he once made the cover of Baby Show magazine, but now his secret modeling career is making him miserable. He dreams of using nonwhitening toothpaste. He can't wait to stop styling his hair....

Battersea, 1961. London is just beginning to enter the swinging sixties. The world is changing - but not for sixteen-year-old Violet. She was born at the exact moment Winston Churchill announced Victory in Europe - an auspicious start, but now she's just stuck in her family's fish and chip shop dreaming...

The best thing about living in the Kimberley is fossicking around in the bush. Twelve-year-old Binnu sees himself as one of the community's most 'deadly' hunters, and with his 'ging' in his pocket he's prepared for anything. When, unthinkingly, he kills a black cockatoo he brings all kinds of trouble...

"'Tis The Season" What will Cheryl and Jason get for each other this Christmas? Whatever they choose, they won't be able to use their father's credit cards! Will they create a Christmas miracle?

Spring Blossom! Will Cheryl successfully chage the Cherry Blossom Festival into a CHERYL Blossom Festival?! That skick chick that makes the boys flip, Cheryl Blossom returns in this all-new story!

Stop the Presses Oh my- can it be true? Cheryl now a regular student at Riverdale High? You betcha'-- and just wait until she gets ahold of the school newspaper! When she's through with it, it'll be more like the school tabloid! Find out for yourself whether "Mr Weatherbee's really an alien"--...

Firefly. Cricket. Vole. Peter. Can four creatures from four very different Nations help one another find their ways in a world that can feel oh-so-big? Delve into this “wise and lovely reading adventure” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) in the tradition of Charlotte’s Web and The Rats of NIMH,...

For the over-scheduled generation, the illustrator of the popular BabyLit books explores the joy found in wildness, following in the footsteps of beloved bestsellers The Night Gardener and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. Like many children, Moon leads a busy life. School, homework, music lessons, sports,...

Flynn hates the outdoors. Always has. He barely pays attention in his Outdoor Ed class. He has no interest in doing a book report on Lost in the Barrens. He doesn’t understand why anybody would want to go hiking or camping. But when he gets lost in the wilderness behind his parents’ friends’...

"Sonorous motifs and resonant archetypes form the backbone of this series conclusion... [the] prose is aesthetically romantic without romanticizing anything; scars of sadness are shown unflinchingly, but when Maerad registers a celebratory evening at the end as 'rich and vivid and luminous with...

It's1841 . . . and if Letty wants to keep her job she must travel with her mistress to a sheep farm in the Blue Mountains, leaving her sister Lavinia behind in Sydney.� Letty has heard that the bush is a wild place, full of strange beasts and dangers, not to mention the bushrangers who hide out...

Curriculum Connections: Dog Chronicles series, historical fiction: based on facts; World War I, Story elements: setting; 1917- England/Belgium, plot and character development, structure; chronological order, point of view; Darling, Mercy Dog of WWI, Conflict: man vs man, man vs nature, man vs fate,...