The book eating girl

This story is about Zoey, a 7th grader who struggles with her workload every day. She has even more to worry about than homework and fitting in, she has to take care of a lot of parenting duties for her family.  She has three younger siblings (a 3-year-old, a 4-year-old and a baby) whom she must take care of after school, and she does everything for them from feeding them to putting them to bed. They never have enough food for all of them and because they are in an unstable living situation, Zoey has lots to deal with. Zoey is always thinking about how much easier life would be if she were an octopus: with eight arms to do eight things at once. With incredible camouflage ability and steady unblinking eyes, as well as powerful protective defensives.  Unfortunately, Her teacher Ms. Rochambeau forces Zoey to join the debate club and she attends, while doing her best to mimic being an octopus and trying to blend into the background.  Eventually, through debate club, she start...

    Claudia Kincaid is fed up with her life at home, as the oldest sibling she has many chores, barely enough allowance and she is not satisfied. So to make a big statement, she decides to run away. But she doesn’t just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to somewhere. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which to her is a space that is beautiful, comfortable, elegant and refined. She then invites her second youngest brother, Jamie, to come along with her - since she knows that he is smart with money and that will probably come in handy when living in the city. Once Jamie and Claudia have settled into the museum, a mysterious new angel statue sparks their attention, a statue that the museum bought for only $225, a statue that might be a work of the renowned Renaissance master, Michelangelo - and could therefore be worth millions.  Claudia is determined to find out the truth about the Angel and her undertaking leads her to Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the wom...

Every four years, two children are kidnapped from the village of Galvaldon, and for many years no one knew why, who was kidnapping them or where they were being taken.  Now, after the town has pieced together the puzzle, they realise that the children are being taken by the School Master, who runs the School for Good and Evil, one of the two children is good and the other evil. They begin their education in their respective wings of the school and then eventually graduate into fairytales.  Sophie has waited her whole life to be stolen by the School Master, and she dreams of being a princess and can't wait to begin her schooling.  Her best friend, Agatha, has entirely different ideas. She does not want to be taken at all, and wants to stay right in her graveyard home. When the fateful night is upon the town, to both the girl's surprise and horror, they are both taken. And when they reach the school, things don't quite go as Sophie had planned it to be.  Sophie is put ...