Bøger af Katherine Marsh

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.

Knitting holds a warm place in many people's hearts as they fondly remember their grandmother knitting toys and clothing for them when they were children. But now, knitting is coming into its own. In Quick & Easy Knitting, learn the basics and take on projects to liven up your home and wardrobe, or create heirlooms that you can pass down through the generations. the book includes patterns and explanations for both child and adult clothes and accessories for both home and holidays. After all, it only takes a pair of needles and some yarn... Happy Knitting!

Every kid loves to have fun, so why not fill up their toy box with delightful handmade toys? From bears and dolls to rattles and lovies, we've got everything you need to create crochet toys and games for the little ones in your life. They can take a trip to Mexico with an amigurumi doll, learn colors and shapes with fun geometric patterns, and battle each other in noughts and crosses. For crochet beginners, we've also included a handy guide to get you started in the craft. So what are you waiting for? Straightforward text, ideal for the beginner.

"Ava Baldwin hadnt meant to lose her temper. But Owen King deserved it. Ava has always tried to keep her anger in check, just like her mom taught her. But when arrogant, know-it-all classmate Owen tries to speak over her again, Ava explodes--and Owen freezes, becoming totally unresponsive. He eventually recovers, but shortly afterward, Ava's parents send her to the Accademia del Forte, a boarding school in Venice that, she learns, is especially for children who are descended from mythological monsters. There, Ava and her brother Jax discover they are part Gorgon, and have been sent to the school to learn to control their emotions--and their powers--in hopes they will become functioning, well-adjusted members of society, unlike their loathed ancestor Medusa"--

From the author of Nowhere Boy - called "a resistance novel for our times" by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother's belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh's latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor - the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades.An incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh's own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee.

Crochet has boomed in recent years, offering craft lovers a new way to make thoughtful gifts, inexpensive accessories and homemade decorations. The Big Book of Crochet Stitches is the perfect companion for crochet crafters of any skill level that are looking to discover fun and creative new stitches. Packed with all of the basic techniques to inform or refresh your memory, this book contains all of the information and step by step explanations that you need to complete an array of stitches that will mean you can tackle your next crochet project with confidence.

Happy to be adopted at last, twelve-year-old orphan Mary Hayes soon learns a terrifying secret about her new mother, the mysterious Madame Z.

The human body is truly an amazing thing. Capable of awe- inspiring feats of speed and agility, while being mind-blowing in complexity, our bodies are unmatched by any other species on Earth. In the Big Book of the Human Body, we explore our amazing anatomy in fine detail.

Fjortenårige Ahmed bor i en by, hvor ingen vil have noget med ham at gøre. Han er flygtet fra et liv med utryghed og smerte i Aleppo i Syrien, og på den farefulde rejse til Europa mistede han sin far. Nu kæmper han for at overleve på egen hånd i Bruxelles, men det er svært, for der er ikke flere tilbage, som han kan stole på, og håbet om et godt liv er ved at svinde ud. Så møder han Max, en trettenårig amerikansk dreng, som er ensom og fuld af hjemve. Max har det svært på sin nye skole og han ved slet ikke, hvordan han kan komme til at passe ind i Belgien. De to drenges liv kolliderer ved et tilfælde, og de ender med at udvikle et helt særligt venskab. Sammen trodser de alle odds og hjælper hinanden med at finde en ny vej til et nyt og bedre liv. En hjertevarm historie om venskab, ukuelighed og hverdagens helte.

If someone seems "too good to be true", are they? Or is your skepticism really masking paranoia? How would you know for sure? How can you really tell? Will it be too late when you finally uncover the answer, the truth? And the question begs to be asked: Too late for what?In her ground-breaking new novel, The Model Male, author Katherine Marsh paints a vivid picture of life where women's desires are completely fulfilled-on all levels, emotionally to intimately. But what is the price? At what cost to women and at what cost to the world? The Model Male takes you on a mesmerizing journey of attraction, vulnerability, and hopefulness to power, disdain and terror. Each page draws you deeper into a vortex of fantasy, reality, confusion and danger.Ms. Marsh opens the door to a world that may be possible within our lifetime. But is such a new world an answer to our prayers or the dawn of our destruction? It leaves us wondering if it is safe to trust anyone anymore? Questioning if we are more easily deceived than we would like to think.Ultimately we must deal dead-on with the question: Who is the real deceiver? Man or 'The Model Male?' Rylee Brown"The Model Male keeps pulling you in chapter after chapter. Very well written...would love to see it made into a movie with the potential for a sequel. I was caught up in the drama and found myself rooting for the 'bad guys' throughout the book."G. Sky LePage