A heart-wrenching tale of selfless love and the powerful desire to survive. When little Kai is brought to the orphanage, an older child, Pax, immediately takes him under his wing. Left on their own after the orphanage shuts down, Pax is...
Orphans
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Auteur:JONES, V. M.Sommaire:Adam's home at Highgate is crashing down around his ears, and in the fantasy world of Shakesh a mistake is having disastrous consequences. Adam and his friends must return to Shakesh, find the lost Prince of the Wind and overthrow...
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Auteur:Porter, Eleanor H.Sommaire:When orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
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Auteur:Taylor, LynneSommaire:Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass...
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Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:Recently recruited and trained as a special agent by MI6, the British secret service, 14-year-old West Londoner Alex Rider is sent to infiltrate an ultra-private school where the rich and powerful send their uncontrollable, rebellious...
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Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
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Auteur:HOROWITZ, AnthonySommaire:Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating the accidental death of two powerful men who both have sons attending an exclusive school for rebellious rich boys in the French Alps. Suggested level...
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Auteur:Bavati, RobynSommaire:Simone has been raised as a dancer, but she hates performing. Hannah loves nothing more than dance, but her parents see it as just a hobby. When the two girls meet for the first time at age fifteen, they choreograph a plan to switch...
- Auteur:Horvath, PollySommaire:
By Newbery Honor author Polly Horvath, comes a sequel to her popular middle-grade novel Pine Island Home about orphaned sisters who find a way to make a new family. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha and Charlie McCready have been adopted by their...
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From Newbery Honor— and National Book Award—winning author Polly Horvath comes a story of four sisters searching for home. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha, and Charlie McCready are left on their own when their missionary parents are washed away...
- Auteur:Perro, Bryan, Milette, ÉtienneSommaire:
Victor VIe est un pigeon voyageur hors de l'ordinaire. Son remarquable sens de l'orientation ainsi que son tempérament de meneur seront rudement épourvés lors de la toute première course des pigeons de Pierre Van Aker. L'avenir du jeune...
- Auteur:Jonathan, AuxierSommaire:
Overflowing with wit and invention, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery by his brutal master, Mr. Seamus. One fateful afternoon, as he's...
- Auteur:Süskind, PatrickSommaire:
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift: an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer...
- Auteur:Pennypacker, SaraSommaire:
From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax; this is a gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about chosen families and the healing power of love. It's been a year since...
- Auteur:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSommaire:
Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now, years later, Addy's grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness program. There, Addy joins five other Black city...
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Auteur:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSommaire:Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.
- Auteur:Sutcliff, RosemarySommaire:
Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into slavery and sentenced to serve in a...
- Auteur:Snyder, LaurelSommaire:
"A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true."--Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the MoonFor readers who loved Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep,...
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Auteur:Rivera, RaquelSommaire:Aneze, a young Aboriginal girl, is left for dead after her village is ripped apart by a wife-raid; her father and brother are killed and her mother is kidnapped. Aneze is the only survivor. She renames herself Orphan Ahwak as she...
- Auteur:Monsef, KiyashSommaire:
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them meets Neil Gaiman in this thrilling novel about an Iranian American girl who discovers that her father was secretly a veterinarian to mythical creatures--and that she must take up his mantle,...
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