The Octopus on My Head

✍ Lindsay Galvin 📂 Fiction 📅 2022 🏛 Chicken House 🌐 en-US ⚖ 4 MB

Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea-shop at Brighton aquarium, and waits for her milliner mother to return from Paris. The arrival of a giant octopus changes her life for ever as a gripping mystery begins to unfold ..

The Sun on My Head

✍ Martins, Geovani;Sanches, Julia 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Faber & Faber 🌐 English ⚖ 77 KB 👁 3 views

*The Sun On My Head* is a collection of thirteen short stories set in Rio's largest favela, Rocinha. The collection gravitates around the childhoods and teenage years of boys who, in spite of having to deal with the anguish and difficulties inherent to their age, also struggle with the violence invo

The Sun on My Head

✍ Geovani Martins 📂 Fiction 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🌐 en-US ⚖ 738 KB

**A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de Janeiro** In _The Sun on My Head_ , Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing

Underpants on My Head

✍ Harper, Jessica 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Penguin Group US 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

In the Small family, it's best to expect the unexpected—six kids make for a lot of surprises—but who would ever imagine getting caught in a snowstorm in August? When the whole crew goes to visit Grandma in Colorado and Cleo, Jack, and Jenna go on a mountain camping trip with Mom and Dad, that's exac

The Sun on My Head: Stories

✍ Geovani Martins 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🌐 en-US ⚖ 95 KB 👁 3 views

**A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de Janeiro** In _The Sun on My Head_ , Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing

The sun on my head: stories

✍ Geovani Martins 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🌐 en-US ⚖ 95 KB 👁 4 views

**A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de Janeiro** In _The Sun on My Head_ , Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing

The Octopus on My Head

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