James Andrew Hall

More than anything in the whole wide world, Amy Pickett want to be a chicken. Her family aren't too keen about that. The clucking would get on their nerves. Even her best friend Clarice thinks she's unhinged. Then Madam Marvel comes to town and strange feathery things begin to happen. Nothing for any of them is ever going to be quite the same again...

When Gerda and her mother take in the penniless street urchin, Kay, powerful forces emerge that will take both children on a magical journey and test their friendship to the extreme. One cold winter night, a splinter of ice pierces Kay's heart and makes him angry and unhappy. He soon becomes enchanted by the Snow Queen and is taken to her palace in the frozen North. Gerda decides that she must do whatever she can to rescue her friend.

"In 1942, the bloody ravages of World War II are far from quiet Guernsey in the British Channel Islands. German occupation of the island seems quite civil. But war is war, and no one escapes its devastating effects. For Guernsey, it is a war of intellect and cunning that brings out the best in people and the worst. Sometimes the enemy at the door is the enemy within. And sometimes, the enemy is really a friend."--Container.