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In the dead of night

Heinz Winckler

Publié en 1987 Tafelberg

Livre
Fiction
Roman

It is the first time that fifteen-year-old James and his younger sister Shiirley are holidaying at Hermanus. Each day they explore the unfamiliar animal life and vegetation of the Southern Cape coastline. On one of their expeditions, they find the crushed skull of a small animal. They also see unfamiliar tracks and hear odd noises up the river. Their imagination is kindled by these strange happenings, and they find themselves involved in a most unusual adventure....

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Langue : Anglais

Au bonheur des ogres

Pennac, Daniel

Publié en 1985 Gallimard

Livre
Fiction
Roman

Côté famille, maman c'est tirée une fois de plus en m'abandonnant avec les mômes, et le Petit s'est mis à rêver d'ogres Noel. Côté coeur, tante Julia a été séduite par ma nature de bouc ( de bous émissaire ). Côté boulot, la première bombe a explosé au rayon des jouets, cinq minutes après mon passage. La deuxième, quinze jours plus tard, au rayon des pulls, sous mes yeux. Comme j'étais là aussi pour l'explosion de la troisième, ils m'ont tous soupçonné. Pourquoi moi?  Je dois avoir un don....

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Langue : Français

L'italien pour les nuls

Le Bras, Sylvie / Möller, Karen Antje / Onofri, Francesca Romana

Publié en 2007 First éd
1 vol. (202 p.)

Livre
Documentaire

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Langue : Français

Hang tough, Paul Mather

Alfred Slote

Publié en 1973 Harper Trophy

Livre
Fiction
Roman

Paul Mather's a pitcher- a really good one. His offspeed pitch is enough to bowl a kid backward, and his fast ball is pure smoke. There isn't anythinghe can't throw, from sliders, change-ups, and sinkers to a mean curveball that breaks at just the right moment. He's pitched no-hitters and perfect games. To Paul, pitching is what you live for and why you live.Lately, through, paul hasn't been allowed to do much less play ball. He's got leukemia, and it's put him into the hospital several times already. His parents are so worried, they've forbidden him to play the game he loves so much. They're afaid that if Paul strains himself, his illness may come back a final time.... And maybe even take his life. But Paul is a winner. His team needs him, and he wan't give up without a fight. Paul Mather is determined to pitch every inning....To keep playing base ball, and to keep hanging tough, no matter what the adds.

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Langue : Anglais

Contes seereer, tome 2

Faye, Amade / Ndiaye, Raphaël

Publié en 2002 Ifan
95 p.

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Documentaire

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Langue : Français

The secret of the Indian

Lynne Reid Banks

Publié en 1989 Avon Camelot

Livre
Fiction
Roman

Now, in an incredible new adventure, Omri et Patrick are forced to share their secret with Patrick's cousin Emma. All of England is threatened by the disastrous cyclone they have brought back from the old American West, and Emma may hold the key to survival.

An incredible new adventure of the Indian in the cupboard

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Langue : Anglais

Catching their talk in a box

Betty M. Hockett

Publié en 1987 Barclay Press

Livre
Fiction documentaire
Roman

None of Joy's family in Los Angeles, Califiornia, could ever have guessed that Joy would turn out to be somebody famous. If anybody had said as much, they would have replied, not our day-dreaming little sister. From her day-dreaming chidhood to years spent turning unwritten languages into the Gospel on records, Joy Ridderhof lived a life of outstanding faith in God.

The Life-story of Joy Ridderhof

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• Chrétien (Religion)

Langue : Anglais

Betsy and Facy : Go over the big hill

Maud Hartt Lovelace

Publié en 2000 Harper Trophy

Livre
Fiction
Roman

Going to ten : Betsy, Tacy and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing up-exciting things are bound to happen. And they do ! The girl fall in lovewith the king of Spain, perform in the school Entairtainment, and for the first time, go all the way over the big Hill to Little Syria by themselves. There Betsy, Tacy, and Tib make new friendsand learn a thing or two. They learn that new Americans are sometimes the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. 

Illustrated by Lois Lenski

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Langue : Anglais

Thimble summer

Elizabeth Enright

Publié en 2008 Square Fish

Livre
Fiction
Roman

A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in a dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is magic because the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways. There is the arrival of Eric-an orphan who becomes a menber of the Linden family, th ebuilding of a new barn, and the county fair at which Garnet's carefully tenden pig, Timmy, wins a blue ribbon. Every day brings adventure of some kind to Garnet and her best friend, Citronella. As far as Garnet is concerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing that happens during this magic summer-her thimble summer.

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Langue : Anglais

A bear called Paddington

Bond, Michael

Publié en 1978 Fontana

Livre
Fiction
Roman

The Browns first met Paddington on a railway station-Paddington was the name of the station. He had travelled all the way from Peru with only a jar of marmalade, a suitcase and his hat. The Browns soon found, as countless families have since found, that Paddington was a very unusual bear. Things keep happening to him. Evenquite ordinary things like having a bath, travelling on the underground or going to the seaside turn out to be very un-ordinary for Paddington.

With drawings by Peggy Fortnum.

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Langue : Anglais

The story of the U.S.A

Franklin Escher, Jr

Publié en 1992

Livre
Autre

Educators publishing service Book 1 Explorers and Settlers

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Langue : Anglais

Window on the world

Daphne Spragget; Jill Johnstone

Publié en 2001 Authentic

Livre
Documentaire

 Window on the world is yoour ticket to travel around the world ! Find out how God is changing the lives of families eveywhere through prayer - from the frozen Artic to the hottest desert, on thehighest mountains and in crowded cities.

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• Dieu (Religion)

Langue : Anglais