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Jet Plane, How it Works

Macaulay, David

Publié en 2012 Macmillan Publishing Company
29p.:

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Do you see that jet plane in the sky?How did it get up there?Go on a plane ride, from takeoff to landing!

Niveau : 7-8 ans

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• Voyage en avion

Langue : Français

Jackie Robinson, He Led the Way

Prince, April Jones

Publié en 2008 Penguin Group
48p.:

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In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player in Major League Baseball. He was a great ballplayer and a great man.

Niveau : 7-8-9 ans

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Langue : Français

The One and Only Ivan

Applegate, Katherine A.

Publié en 2012 Harper Collins Publishers
305p.:

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Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango...

Niveau : 9-10-11-12 ans

Mots clefs :

• Gorille

Langue : Français

Bomb

Sheinkin, Steve

Publié en 2012 Roaring Brook Press
240p.:

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In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site...

Niveau : 9-10-11-12 ans

Mots clefs :

• Bombe atomique (Génie militaire / Arme)

Langue : Français

Gone-Away Lake

Enright, Elizabeth

Publié en 2000 Odyssey classics harcourt, inc
256p.:

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-Summer has a magic all its own in Elizabeth Enright's beloved stories about two children and their discovery of a ghostly lakeside resort. These two modern classics are once again available in Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic editions, but now with handsome new cover art by Mary GrandPré to complement Beth and Joe Krush's original interior illustrations.Portia and her cousin Julian discover...

Niveau : 9-10-11-12 ans

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Langue : Français

Lemony Snicket: the authorized autobiography

Snicket, Lemony

Publié en 2002 Harper Collins Publishers
212p.:

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A Warning from the Publisher:Many readers have questions about Lemony Snicket, author of the distressing serial concerning the trials of the charming but unlucky Baudelaire orphans, published under the collective title A Series of Unfortunate Events. Before purchasing, borrowing, or stealing this book, you should be aware that it contains the answers to some of those ...

Niveau : 9-10-11-12 ans

Mots clefs :

• écrivain (Métier / Travail / Économie / Profession)

Langue : Français

Septimus Heap, Book 1. Magyk

Sage, Angie

Publié en 2005 Harper Trophy
555p.:

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Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow—a newborn girl with violet eyes. Who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to the Heaps' beloved son Septimus?

Niveau : 9-10-11-12 ans

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Langue : Français

Ivy + Bean, Ivy + Bean No News Is Good News, Book 8

Barrows, Annie / Blackall, Sophie

Publié en 2011 Chronicle Books
137p.:

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Ivy and Bean need some money. Ten dollars, to be exact. Never mind what for. Okay, it s for low-fat Belldeloon cheese in a special just-for you serving size. Don t ask why. How are Ivy and Bean going to make ten dollars? Hey, maybe they should write a newspaper about Pancake Court and sell it! Great idea! And easy, too. All they have to do is snoop around the neighborhood. Wow...It s very interesting what they can find out. It s even more interesting when the neighbors read about it in the newspaper.

Niveau : 8-9-10-11 ans

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• Anglais : langue

Langue : Français

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart #12, The Flight for the Frozen Land

Hunt, Elizabeth Singer

Publié en 2009 Weinstein Books
Collection 12 106p.:

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A team of GPF scientists has vanished in the Arctic while doing research on global warming. While rescuing them from the jaws of a hungry polar bear, Secret Agent Jack Stalwart learns of the malicious Black Arctic Project: A group of mysterious villains are speeding up global warming by blowing up glaciers. Can Jack stop them before the entire planet is doomed?

Niveau : 7-8-9 ans

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• Anglais : langue

Langue : Français

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart #5, The Secret of the Sacred Temple

Hunt, Elizabeth Singer

Publié en 2007 Weinstein Books
Collection 5 106p.:

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When an archaeologist who guards the priceless 1,000-year-old treasures of the temple of Angor Wat goes missing, her daughter Kate calls on Jack to help bring her home. No sweat for a top secret agent. Except this time it's personal. The archaeologist also has information leading to the whereabouts of Jack's missing brother. Now Jack must stop a power- hungry madman before the treasure, and the archaeologist, disappear forever.

Niveau : 7-8-9 ans

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• Anglais : langue

Langue : Français

Splendors and Glooms

Schlitz, Laura Amy

Publié en 2012 Candlewick Press
384p.:

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The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini’s act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts and makes a splendidly gaudy entrance with caravan, puppets, and his two orphaned assistants.Lizzie Rose and Parsefall are dazzled by the Wintermute home. Clara seems to have everything they lack — adoring parents, warmth, and plenty to eat. In fact, Clara’s life is shadowed by grief, guilt, and secrets. When Clara vanishes that night, suspicion of kidnapping falls upon the puppeteer and, by association, Lizzie Rose and Parsefall.As they seek to puzzle out Clara’s whereabouts, Lizzie and Parse uncover Grisini’s criminal past and wake up to his evil intentions. Fleeing London, they find themselves caught in a trap set by Grisini’s ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it’s too late.

Niveau : 9-10-11-12 ans

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• Anglais : langue

Langue : Français

The White Bicycle

Brenna, Beverley

Publié en 2012 Red deer press
187p.:

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The White Bicycle is the third stand-alone title in the Wild Orchid series about a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome. This installment chronicles Taylor Jane's travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor's earliest memories, along with immediate scenes in Lourmarin, a picturesque village in the Luberon Valley, The White Bicycle results in a journey for independence both personal and universal, told in Taylor's honest first-person prose.

Niveau : 9-10-11-12 ans

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• Anglais : langue

Langue : Français