The Aldens spend the summer on their own private island. There they meet a new friend with an amazing secret!
Orphans
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Auteur:Warner, Gertrude ChandlerSommaire: - Auteur:HOROWITZ, AnthonySommaire:
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. He goes under cover to find out what is behind a...
- Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:
They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy...
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Auteur:Kacer, KathySommaire:Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage, a medical certificate and a Star of David, lead her to Germany....
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Auteur:Rankin, K.J.Sommaire:When we meet Sebastian (Seb) he is already taking risks and putting himself in harm’s way as he and a couple of his friends carry out a failed break and enter and are arrested. As we get to know Seb we discover his life has been a...
- Auteur:Murphy, Emily BainSommaire:
For Marit Olsen, magic is all about strategy: it flows freely through her blood, but every use leaves behind a deadly ice-like build-up within her veins called the Firn. Marit knows how dangerous it is to let too much Firn build up-...
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Auteur:Schlitz, Laura Amy.Sommaire:When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's...
- Auteur:Levy, JoanneSommaire:
Evie Walman is not obsessed with death. She does think about it a lot, though, but only because her family runs a Jewish funeral home. At twelve, Evie already knows she's going to be a funeral director when she grows up. So what if the...
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Auteur:Kernaghan, EileenSommaire:It’s 1914. Sixteen year old Sophie Pritchard, orphaned two years earlier by the sinking of the SS Titanic, is about to begin a new life in the unfamiliar world of British India. For Sophie, still devastated by her parents’ death, India...
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Auteur:Willett, EdwardSommaire:Ariane meets her ancestor, the Lady of the Lake, and is sent on an important and dangerous quest – to reunite the pieces of the shattered sword Excalibur. Yes, that Excalibur.
Ariane meets her ancestor, the Lady of the Lake, and...
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Auteur:Willett, EdwardSommaire:A teenage girl inherits the power of the Lady of the Lake. Can this troubled teen and her brainy sidekick stop the ruthless sorcerer?
- Auteur:Enoch, SuzanneSommaire:
Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home, and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family's silly inheritance rules. But now her little fib means that...
- Auteur:Balogh, MarySommaire:
Humphrey Westcott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune that will forever alter the lives of everyone in his family-including the daughter no one knew he had... Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath knowing nothing...
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Auteur:Peel, KitSommaire:Massive climate change has caused a winter that will not thaw, and it seems that the forces of nature have turned on humanity itself. But in the sleepy British village of Pateley, one special girl may hold the key to the Earth’s...
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Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
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Auteur:Grant, VickiSommaire:Dot, whose name reflects her stature, has always had big dreams. But her dreams have to be put on hold while she searches for the truth about her parents. She gets a job as a seamstress at a lakeside resort in rural Ontario and falls...
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Auteur:HOROWITZ, AnthonySommaire:Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
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Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
- Auteur:Parker-Chan, ShelleySommaire:
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To...
- Auteur:Barker, J. D.Sommaire:
A haunting tale of suspense, rendered with the masterful skill only Barker could muster. After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child--this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes,...
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