Books with author Margaret D. Clark

Laura Eastman returns to New York after living in the South with relatives for four years to discover that her brother and father are part of the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves to escape to Canada. When a friend brings a runaway slave, Martin, to the house while her father and stepmother are away, Laura must decide what she believes -- and whether she should help Martin escape.

From one of Australia's most popular writers for young adultsLast time you met Lisa in 'Fat Chance', she thought she was a beached whale.Well she's back and she's hot, heading for teen supermodel of the year. So hot in fact that the agency's given her a new name, Rebel, and a whole new look to go with it. Okay, she got the job all her friend dreamed about, and she got the fairy godmother. But she got the ugly sisters too, there's a wolf lurking behind every camera and she's still looking for that fairy tale ending.And Lisa's going to find it - hot or what!

In opening The Classic Treasury of Princess Fairy Tales one will find refuge in a quiet, sun-dappled forest where magic still can and does happen. Featuring eight of the best loved princess heroines of all time, from Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty, little girls will revel in the fantasy world the beautifully rich artwork creates and long for the stories to never end.

Sara hates bad-luck Tuesdays! She writes a secret diary to lift the jinx.Sara Swan's family has settled the problem of moving house (they are NOT moving!). But now her father is going through a mid-life crisis and leaves home on a Tuesday. And speaking of Tuesdays, Sara discovers that Tuesdays are bad-luck days for her in more ways than one. So when she hears a turn-your-life-around guru on TV say that you can change things if you write about misfortunes and analyse them, she decides to write a diary on Tuesdays, mainly about Tuesdays! Although she does include snippets of other important stuff that happens during the week! Great Aunt Grace (GAG) moves into town, causing problems as usual. Sara's friends have their ups and downs, romances grow and wane, and all the bad luck still happens on Tuesdays. Finally, towards the end of the year, things begin to change for the better on Tuesdays, but... what happens on Wednesdays?

Sara is not a happy tweenie.Sara is not happy! Her family have decided to move interstate, and as a consequence, she has a sore throat form yelling "I am NOT GOING', 'WE are NOT MOVING'. Marking the days off until she has to move in her secret diary - the real one and not the foil that she leaves for her family to read - she confesses to a crush on the 'player' Jack Marconi, her despair at finding out that her best friend Ellie has stolen him away and how, sometimes, eating at Burger Heaven is better for you than working out at the gym. Will she have to eventually move or will the journey for Sara commence way before 'Moving Day'?

Mum is out on the surfboard and narrowly misses being attacked by a shark - or maybe it was just a false alarm. When Alice the labrador falls off the rocks and nearly becomes shark bait though, Meg and Mike, the Aussie Angels, aren't so sure! Meg is terrified, but some visiting scientists give her the chance to face her fears.SHARK IN THE DARK is the eighteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.

Larceny Leyton is a wild child - tough, smart, willful and proud. Like so many others, she wears her attitude like armour.'Trust' isn't a word in Larceny's dictionary. It means opening up and taking the risk that you'll be hurt. Truth and dare.Nobody gets close enough to earn her trust. Larceny makes sure of that. Yet deep down, she's afraid of the voices that bring with them a wild consuming rage, a killing rage that drove her to the streets in the first place. She's afraid of being betrayed by the only person she's been able to trust - herself.

Friends, school, clothes… all your questions answered.A book about the importance of Friendship‘My best friend suddenly won’t talk to me and I don’t know why.Yesterday, a group of my so-called friends sniggered when I walked past. What’s wrong with me?We all need friends. Without them, life would be pretty lonely and boring. Friends come in all shapes and sizes, ages and stages. You gradually learn about friendships by having some yourself.Friends are so important. I am still best friends with Ally, my best friend since grade six. She knows everthing there is to know about me, and I know everything about her. You can’t replace a friend like that with anyone else.

Another great read from one of Australia's greatest authorsA kidnapping? Rival gangs? Ransoms? What's happening in Coolini Beach? All the teenagers in Coolini Beach use the expression 'cool bananas'; life is pretty relaxed and free and easy but what does it mean when police crime tape is found around the public phone box and rumours of death threats start circulating through the beach town? Has there been a murder?The sequel to Coolini Beach 1: The Search.

Take an everyday girl - short, with freckles, mud-puddle eyes and the kind of mind Sherlock Holmes would kill for - and you have the heroine of a lighthearted whodunnit for Independent Readers.Someone put an anonymous love note in Laura Love's school bag. A secret admirer. How exciting. But who?Luckily Laura's mother is a private investigator and interested in helping Laura solve the puzzle. But the mystery deepens when all of Laura's classmates get a love note in the same writing, but she doesn't. What is going on?