Mankind has spread to the stars. Captain Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. She lives only for the next paycheck until she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. Fumiko Nakajima, the great scientist who built the bird-like Stations, has been searching for one such as he for a thousand years. Together, they must protect the boy from the interstellar corporations hunting him across decades and light years.
The must-have Journal for all Tom Gates fans - packed with brandnew activities, makes and story by Liz Pichon and including pagesfor recording words that make you laugh, sticking photos of yourfriends pulling funny faces, making a Christmas decoration, summerreading lists and much, much more!
1896. Tirzah, Louisa and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Louisa is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas ... and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?
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The highly acclaimed novel, now in paperback! SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA is an incredibly funny and poignant twenty-first-century coming-of-age, coming-out story - wrapped in a geek romance - from debut author Becky Albertalli.