How I Live Now: Popular Penguins

Meg Rosoff

This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy.   Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own...

The Dumb House: (Scottish Classics)

John Burnside

As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals - tin...