While banished to a dusty study one day "to think things over", a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read. As the afternoon passes, the story nabs him and carries him away. Before long, this good...
Books and reading
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Auteur:Neff, Henry H.Sommaire:Young Max McDaniels battles trolls, water beasts, and other monsters in a hostile, poverty-stricken dystopian landscape profoundly transformed by the villainous Astaroth.
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Auteur:Moers, WalterSommaire:In this third tale of Zamonia, Optimus Yarnspinner sets off to track down a mysterious author in Bookholm. Once there he faces cold-blooded book hunters, cyclopean Fearsome Booklings, sharp-toothed Animatomes, and the Shadow King.
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Auteur:Shteyngart, GarySommaire:In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she his coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela...
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Auteur:Sledge, John S., Edgar, WalterSommaire:Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than 100 of the best pieces culled...
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Auteur:Redekop, CoreySommaire:Thomas Friesen has three goals in life. Get a job. Make friends. Find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all three.
All is not peaceable...
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Describes the characteristics and various advantages of reading.
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A little boy who wants to read his book keeps being distracted by a tiger who is busy chomping on gum, growling, and practicing karate kicks.
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Auteur:Zane, J. PederSommaire:Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News &...
- Auteur:Grabenstein, ChrisSommaire:
Welcome, boys and girls, readers of all ages, to the first-ever Library Olympiad! Kyle and his teammates are back, and the world-famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, is at it again! This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all...
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Auteur:Grabenstein, ChrisSommaire:Mr. Lemoncello is going live with a brand-new televised BREAKOUT game! Discover what James Patterson calls "the coolest library in the world" in the fourth puzzle-packed adventure in Chris Grabenstein's New York Times bestselling MR....
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Auteur:Jones, LloydSommaire:Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only textbook is the Dickens novel 'Great...
- Auteur:Ingber, JanetSommaire:
Janet Ingber has created this guide specifically for people learning how to use a Mac, regardless of the operating system. She covers the basics you need to know to get started with VoiceOver; to interact with your dock; to understand...
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Auteur:LaRamee-Jones, Shanda, McDougall, CarolSommaire:Let’s Read brings parents, babies and books together to celebrate the joys of reading. This latest book in the popular Baby Steps series shows the many ways babies engage with books at different ages and stages, from looking and...
- Auteur:Dumont, JeanSommaire:
«La neige tombait de plus en plus. Avec elle, s’amoncelaient les angoisses, les doutes ; Hugues s’emmitouflait dans la froide distance avec les autres. Le temps des fêtes approchait, lui s’éloignait. Il craignait les rapprochements. Il...
- Auteur:Chartrand, LiliSommaire:
À l'orée d'une fabuleuse forêt, un gros monstre découvre un jour un étrange objet. Après l'avoir reniflé et léché, il le rejette, furieux. Ça n'a aucun goût! Pourtant, cet object étonnant va changer sa vie...
- Auteur:Maclear, KyoSommaire:
Un jour, un garçon très contrarié entre dans une bibliothèque pour tenter de se calmer. Il s'empare d'un livre et se met à le lire. Le voilà absorbé par son histoire et emporté dans des contrées éloignées. Le bon petit livre devient...
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Auteur:Deen, NatashaSommaire:In this early chapter book, rookie detectives Lark Ba and Connor come to the rescue when the librarian misplaces her library key.
- Auteur:Hall, KirstenSommaire:
Il était une fois un livre. C'était un livre amusant et plein de surprises, mais il était aussi timide et se sentait délaissé. Jour après jour, il attendait d'être découvert - ouvert par un enfant qui l'aimerait comme seuls sont aimés...
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