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The magic finger

Dahl, Roald

Publié en 1998 Puffin Books

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Documentaire

What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?   To the gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her magic finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's magic finger takes over. She really can't control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds !

Illustrated by Quentin Blake

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Langue : Anglais

Moose tracks

Mary Casanova

Publié en 1997 Hyperion Books For Children

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Fiction
Roman

Seth's stepfather, a game warned, warned him about an international gang of poachers, but Seth never expected to encounter them in the woods near his house. When Seth witnesses the poachers slaughter a moose cow, they warn him not to tell his father, but Seth is desperate to rescue the calf. Can Seth save the calf without endangering his family?

Mots clefs :

• Veau (Mammifère / Animal / Zoologie / Science)
• Chasse (Loisir)

Langue : Anglais

Little house on Rocky Ridge

Roger Lea MacBride

Publié en 1993

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Fiction
Roman

The rose years : Meet Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, and the last of the little house girls. Rose and her parents, Laura and Almanzo, say good-byye to Ma and Pa Ingall's and Laura sisters. In a covered wagon containing all their possessions, they make their way across the drought-striken Midwest to the lush green valleys of of southern Missouri. The journey is long and not always easy, but at the end is the promise of a new home and a new life for the Wilders.

Little house on Rocky Ridge is the first book in The Rose Years, an ongoing series about another spirited girl from America's most beloved pioneer family.

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Langue : Anglais

Sparrow road

Sheila O'Connor

Publié en 2012 Puffin Books

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Fiction
Roman

It's the summer before seventh grade, and twelve-year-old Raine O'Rourke's mother suddenly takes a job hours from home at mysterious sperrow Road- a creepy, dilapidated mansion that houses an exentric group of artists. While Raine's mother works as the cook and housekeepper, Raine explores the sprawling estate, trying to solve its secrets in the hopes she'll discover why she and her mother have really come to sparrow road, but it's an unexpected secret from Raine's own life that changes her forever.

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Langue : Anglais

Swift rivers

Cornelia Meigs

Publié en 2004 Walker Newbery

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Fiction
Roman

It's 1835. Chris Dahlberg goes to live with his grandfather the day that his mean-spirited uncle bars him from his homestead. After a long Minnesota winter, Chris is persuaded that the best chance he has of caring for his elderly grandfather is to harvest the timber on his grand-father's land and drive the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the markets in the new frontier town of St Louis. People say it's impossible, especially for one body alone....

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Langue : Anglais

The courage of Sarah Noble

Alice Dalgliesh

Publié en 2023

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Fiction
Roman

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Langue : Français

The courage of Sarah Noble

Alice Dalgliesh

Publié en 2000 Aladdin Paperbacks

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Fiction
Roman

IN 1707, Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family." Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble," her mother had said, but it wasn't always easy easy to feel brave inside. Sarah was only eight, and the dark woods were full of animals and strange new sights and sounds.

Based on a rue story. Sarah's journey is inspiring. And as she cares for her father and befriends her neighbors, she learns that to be afraid but still be brave is the greatest courage of all.

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Langue : Anglais

Strawberry girl

Lois Lenski

Publié en 2005 Harper Trophy

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Fiction
Roman

Strawberries-big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. "Don't coun't your biddies' fore they're hatched, gal young un!" her father tells her. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, just itching to start a feud.

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Langue : Anglais

Beyond the desert gate

Mary Ray

Publié en 2001 Bethlehem Books

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Fiction
Roman

Palestine A.D 70 : They came to Macherus at the beginning of summer. It was a month later that, looking out through the shimmering heat down the valley from under the tent awning, Philo saw the smoke in the sky that Hylas had imagined on the day before he left Philadelphia. The tribune heard him gasp and came out to stand beside him, looking above the heat haze over the distant lake to the west. " yes, that must be it, Jerusalem has gone at last. Nothing but a whole city could make the sky look like that.Jupiter Ammond, I'm glad I'm not there now. There's no glory in a massacre, and in that city it'll be like scything a corn field"......

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Langue : Anglais

Revue Gabonaise des sciences de l'homme

Collectif

Publié en 2004 Luto

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Documentaire

Acte du séminaire : Les formes traditionnelles de gestion des écosystèmes au Gabon. N*5

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• Gabon (Géographie / Pays / Afrique)

Langue : Français

Sarah, plain and tall

Patricia McLachlan

Publié en 1992 Scholastic

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Fiction
Roman

What kind of woman will answer the ad that Anna and Caleb's father places for a wife and a mother?  Will she be kind and loving ? Wille she make their father happy ? And once she arrives at their prairie home home, will she want to stay ? That's what Anna and Caleb want to know as they eagerly make plans for the arrival of Sarah-a warm, wise, and wonderful woman whose long-awaited visit just may change their lonely lives forever.

Winner of the Newbery Medal.

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Langue : Anglais

Diccionario compact plus

Larousse

Publié en 2015 Larousse

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Autre

Dictionnaire Francais -Espagnol

Mots clefs :

• Dictionnaire

Langue : Français