The story of Theseus, saved from death as a baby, narrowly escaping having his legs sliced off by an axe-wielding inn-keeper, he also has time to defeat hoards of pirates and kill the Minotaur!
Juvenile fiction
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Auteur:Rawlings, Marjorie KinnanSommaire:A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
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Auteur:Horwitz, Sarah JeanSommaire:A stunning debut about a magician's apprentice and a one-winged princess who must vanquish the mechanical monsters that stalk the streets and threaten the faerie kingdom. Aspiring inventor and magician's apprentice Felix...
- Auteur:Farmer, NancySommaire:
Baby Ruva lives with her giraffe family in a beautiful jungle. One sad day she is kidnapped and taken across the ocean to a horrible zoo. Thanks to four wise and magical friends she has met along the way, the baby giraffe is managing to...
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Auteur:Sorensen, JessicaSommaire:Gemma thought that she was trapped, that Stephan had finally won-but then time resets, and she's given another chance.The clock is ticking as Gemma tries to figure out how to change the vision that ends the world in ice. If she can,...
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Auteur:Williams, MargerySommaire:By the time the velveteen rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.
- Auteur:Light, AlexSommaire:
When Becca Hart is teased for not having a boyfriend, she impulsively pretends she's been secretly seeing someone. Overhearing the lie, Brett steps in. It's the perfect solution: until the line between real and pretend begins...
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Auteur:Sorensen, JessicaSommaire:Gemma thought that her mind was gone, but she was wrong. And now she is left trying to figure out the truth of what Stephan is planning to do with her and the star, before it's too late. But finding out the truth is hard, especially...
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Auteur:Paulsen, GarySommaire:For the last few years, 13-year-old Tag Jones has been running the family bait shop on the sandy Bermuda beach. He has been helping earn money ever since his father died in a scuba diving accident while searching for a legendary Spanish...
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Auteur:Gay, Marie-Louise, Homel, DavidSommaire:Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia -- an incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and...
- Auteur:Frank, JohnSommaire:
Grizz Brickbottom is one tough cowboy. But even the toughest cowboys, those who floss their teeth with barbed wire as Grizz does, can use some companionship. So Grizz adopts a dog that will help out with the cattle rustling and the...
- Auteur:Elliott, Matthew J.Sommaire:
The participants in an epic battle fought thousands of years ago have risen again, and the world as we know it is almost at an end. When 17-year old Alex Stone leaves Northwood Boarding school to accompany her father on a controversial...
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Auteur:Funke, Cornelia CarolineSommaire:Two orphaned brothers are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of Venice. The brothers' freedom is threatened by a bungling detective hired by their aunt. They find shelter in an old, disused cinema...
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Auteur:Martin, C. K. KellySommaire:Losing weight over the summer gains Serena some popularity, but it also means discovering first-hand the pains of being a 15-year-old girl in a world that both sexualizes and shames young women. After narrowly avoiding exploitation in a...
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Auteur:Reiss, KathrynSommaire:In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
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Auteur:Nesbit, E.Sommaire:When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortune. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well-meant efforts are often more fun than profitable--until one...
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Auteur:Lofting, HughSommaire:The astonishing adventures of a kind-hearted doctor who talks to animals as he travels to Africa with some of his favourite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.
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Auteur:Smith, Jennifer E.Sommaire:Twelve-year-olds Ruby and Simon have been growing apart since their parents moved them to a Wisconsin farm, but weird weather events that seem tied to Simon's emotions bring a stranger into their lives who introduces them to the...
- Auteur:Kunuk, ZachariasSommaire:
. . . tells the story of a young shaman in training who must face her first test--a trip to the underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill. Facing dark spirits and...
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Auteur:White, SusanSommaire:"It is the late 1960s, and the world of twelve-year-old Ruth Iverson pretty much revolves around her friends, a boy she likes, The Monkees and spending time with her dad, doing special stuff like watching the Toronto Maple Leafs win the...
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