Revisiting the rustic landscape favored in her Hilda Hen books, Wormell introduces an engaging, feisty kitten named Barnaby. To each of his mother's warnings ("Don't annoy the sheep, Barnaby!") he replies, "WHY NOT?" and quickly learns exactly why ("Because I'll annoy YOU!" snorts the ram). The feckless feline makes his way across the barnyard: to escape a rooster, he climbs a tree only to be chased by a crow into the sheep's pasture--until finally he gets stuck under a hay bale. As all the animals gather to help him, the ever independent Barnaby manages to free himself, then scampers home for supper.
Sarah Addison Allen - The Girl Who Chased the Moon
After the death of her mother, Dulcie, Emily moves in with her grandfather in Mullaby, NC, and learns of her mother's part in the Coffey family tragedy. Fortunately, not everyone holds Dulcie's past against Emily—Julia welcomes Emily with a cake and offers a shoulder to lean on, but Julia has troubles, too. She's working off the debt on her father's restaurant so she can sell it and open a bakery far from the town that dismissed her so easily as a teen. Things may change if the romantic Sawyer can persuade
Robert A. Heinlein - FridayThis is the story of secret agent Friday, an "artificial person" created in a lab, suffering prejudice because of her status. She finds herself in the middle of a baffling political and corporate power struggle--first she is imprisoned, then is offered training as an assassin, and is finally chased off-planet to an unsure fate. Over the course of the novel, she suffers betrayals where she least expects them and receives help from the most surprising sources.
