The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

The Calamity Club by Kathryn StockettKathryn Stockett's first novel since the global bestselling phenomenon THE HELP the sweeping story of a group of underestimated women and an 11 year old orphan girl whose fates converge in Mississippi in 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven year old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she's been one of the 'unadoptable' girls at the town's orphanage, where she

beautiful but distant

has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe

From the Azores to Lisbon

When the dark clouds come

'A sensitive

When Friday's father turns up out of the blue

In Bullshit Jobs

civil liberties are being eroded - what can be done

One day Caelyn finds a group in a forest who believe that if they stand still for long enough they will become trees

It is presented in a concise

This unique book features an encyclopaedic range of subjects for children who want to find out everything there is to know about science

and deeply hopeful