Books with title The Secret Pledge

The Daily News, 12 December, 2000 Andrew Harvey, the ten year old boy missing for three days amid fierce bushfires surrounding the small township of Coonabarabran has been winced to safety, and is now recovering in the local hospital. Spotted on the top of Tondoran Spire, a rocky natural steeple in the rugged Warrumbungles, at about 10 am this morning by planes and choppers water bombing the vicinity of the Tv Tower, it was a dramatic and daring rescue that ends days of aerial and ground search for the missing boy.

The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption saysI KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublins Murder Squad—and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. “The Secret Place,” a board where the girls at St. Kildas School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why. But everything they discover leads them back to Hollys close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival clique—and to the tangled web of relationships that bound all the girls to Chris Harper. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephens links to the Mackey family. St. Kildas will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. Hollys father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter. And the private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more dangerous than either of the detectives imagined. The Secret Place is a powerful, haunting exploration of friendship and loyalty, and a gripping addition to the Dublin Murder Squad series.

Imagine a special place where only one human can travel through. A special place inside a magical waterfall. Yes, a magical waterfall where fairies live. But the fairies depend on children's imaginations to ensure they stay alive. Even the waterfall needs the children. This is where a special fairy, Pixie, lives. Author Leslie A. Veinot's The Secret Place follows Pixie, a tree-born fairy, on her adventure to save her friend from the rival sprites who invaded their land. Also, about a special human girl, Gypsy, who comes through the waterfall, makes friends with Pixie and two of these rival sprites who are always looking for adventures, good or bad. The Secret Place is an entertaining and sometimes humorous story. With every turn of its pages, you will feel as though you are part of the tale.

“Beauty has nothing to do with it,” said Brigitta. “Men carry on the family name and manage the family business. Personally, I think I could do it better than most boys I know. In fact, I think girls are better than boys in lots of ways. They’re cleverer, wiser and they don’t fight so much. If it wasn’t for men, Germany wouldn’t have had this stupid war and millions of people would still be alive. I think girls should run the world.”These are the words of a forgotten figure in a forgotten family, but Brigitta’s voice echoes down the years as five children fight to right a distant wrong and bring to light a long hidden secret.

Corvus the Worc is fascinated by the sound of his own voice. He loves to be the centre of attention, and he doesn't like being interrupted when he is talking. He thinks he is far too important to work alongside his fellow creatures.One sunny morning, Corvus decides that he doesn’t want to do any work at all that day. He secretly plans to steal someone else’s idea in the hope that it will bring him lots of rewards and far less work to do. But his plan falls apart when other creatures in the rainforest learn all about it.