Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet...
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Verne, JulesSummary:
- Author:Colfer, EoinSummary:
Suite des aventures d'Artemis Fowl, un jeune collégien irlandais, introverti et surdoué. À la fin de l'épisode précédent, lui et Butler, son garde du corps, avaient subi un enchantement destiné à effacer de leur mémoire tout ce qui...
- Author:Colfer, EoinSummary:
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the...
- Author:Arnaldo, MonicaSummary:
Arto has lived his whole life in the snowy, cold North, and six years is a long time. When his mom gets a new job and the family prepares to spend a year in the South, Arto is not happy at all. He decides that he's just going to act as...
- Author:Chokshi, RoshaniSummary:
Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations...
- Author:Chokshi, RoshaniSummary:
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the breathtaking conclusion to Roshani Chokshi's New York Times best-selling Pandava quintet. Will the Sleeper gain immortality or be stopped once and for all? *"Chokshi spins a...
- Author:Chokshi, RoshaniSummary:
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling author Roshani Chokshi and her sequel to Aru Shah and the End of Time. Aru is only just getting the hang of this whole Pandava thing when the Otherworld goes into full panic mode....
- Author:Chokshi, RoshaniSummary:
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the third book in the Hindu-based, best-selling Pandava series by Roshani Chokshi, in which Aru and her cohorts, Mini, Brynne, and Aiden—and now a pair of twins—search the Otherworld for...
- Author:Reynolds, JasonSummary:
When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires-literally-in this piercing middle grade novel by the winner of the Coretta Scott King - Johnson Steptoe Award. Genie's summer is full of surprises. The first is...
- Author:Bradley, AlanSummary:
Flavia de Luce - "part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review) - takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory...
- Author:Fernandez, CarolineSummary:
Asha and Baz have a paper rocket to launch! Whoever builds the rocket that travels the farthest will get to meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. The only problem is Asha and Baz don't know how to power their rocket. Stuck and unsure, the kids...
- Author:Parr, MariaSummary:
Pippi Longstocking meets Heidi meets Anne Shirley in this tale of an irrepressible girl in a mountain village who navigates unexpected changes with warmth and humor. Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the...
- Author:Jones, KariSummary:
In this novel for teen readers, best friends Maddie and Ivan struggle to cope with Ivan's father's alcoholism.
- Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary:
When Ms. Information kidnaps the President's daughter, it is up to twelve-year-old Ruby, also known as Pufferfish, to use her super-nanobyte-enhanced allergies in leading the NERDS' investigation.
- Author:Birdseye, TomSummary:
Fifth-grader Cody Carson keeps a journal of his hopes for a fresh start in a town where nobody knows about his humiliating mistakes of the past, but before school even begins so does his embarrassment.
- Author:Sénéchal, Jean-FrançoisSummary:
Dans Le boulevard, Chris, un jeune homme vivant avec une déficience intellectuelle, devait faire face au départ soudain de sa mère le jour de ses dix-huit ans. Deux ans ont passé. Chris partage désormais son appartement avec sa...
- Author:Bisson, LucilleSummary:
Tandis que l'été bat son plein, Marianne reçoit une invitation incroyable ! Elle a la chance unique de participer à un voyage humanitaire de deux semaines dans un village du Nicaragua. L'adolescente n'arrive pas à y croire ! Au fil de...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
Lorsque le directeur de l'école annonce une nouvelle politique relative aux uniformes, les amis d'Ian font pression sur lui pour qu'il s'y oppose. Sa meilleure amie Julia l'incite fortement à protester, mais le directeur est également...
- Author:Ward, DavidSummary:
«Le pillard tenait son flambeau élevé et allait le lancer sur le toit. Je visai sa poitrine et laissai voler la flèche.» Depuis près d’un an, les fugueurs sont à la recherche de leur terre natale. Mais même alors, les dangers de...
- Author:Bar-El, DanSummary:
"Audrey is a cow with poetry in her blood, who yearns for the greener pastures beyond Bittersweet Farms. But when Roy the horse tells this bovine dreamer that she is headed for Abbot's War, the slaughter house, Audrey knows that she...