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Spring According to Humphrey

Birney, Betty

Publié en 2017 Scholastic

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Fiction
Roman

Spring has sprung and everyone at Longfellow School are HAPPY-HAPPY-HAPPY! It also means Family Fun Night is coming up and all the students' families are involved in making amazing circus activities. Humphrey helps in many ways, but he can't help but wonder about his own family. He doesn't know anything about them.

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Langue : Français

What Was the Great Depression?

Pascal, Janet

Publié en 2015

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On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market, the system that controls money in America, plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both.

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• économie

Langue : Français

What Is the Super Bowl?

Anastasio, Dina

Publié en 2015 Scholastic

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With over 110 million viewers every year, the Super Bowl is one of the most watched television events in the United States.

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Langue : Français

What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

St. George, Judith

Publié en 2014

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When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corp of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of the United States. They didn't. However, young readers will love this true-life adventure tale of the two-year journey that finally brought the explorers to the Pacific Ocean.

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Langue : Français

Blanche Neige et Grise Pluie

Solotareff, Grégoire

Publié en 2015 L'école des loisirs

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Fiction
Roman

Ne vous inquiétez pas. Il y a vraiment, dans cette histoire, une ravissante jeune fille au teint pâle et aux cheveux noirs. Et une affreuse sorcière. Et un miroir qui dit la vérité. Une forêt profonde et sept nains, qui travaillent dans une mine. Du moins c est ce qu ils prétendent. Mais dans ce livre, vous apprendrez que Blanche Neige était la fille d un certain Bruno Neige. Et qu elle avait une demi-soeur du nom de Grise Pluie. Vous découvrirez aussi que les nains de la forêt ne sont pas tous gentils. Et que la pauvre Blanche, hélas, ne brillait pas par son intelligence. Quant à Grise Pluie, elle était très futée, mais son goût pour la sieste devait avoir de terribles conséquences.

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Langue : Français

Geronimo Stilton 65, Bollywood Burglary

Stilton, Geronimo

Publié en 2016 Scholastic

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Fiction
Roman

My detective friend Hercule Poirat and I were headed to India. A Bollywood star we're friends with had received a valuable ruby and wanted us to help her protect it... which meant that I ended up acting in the movie she was filming! Rancid ricotta. I'm a terrible actor! Even worse, just when we least expected it, the ruby was stolen. Could we find the thief?

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Langue : Français

Who was Marie Curie?

Stine, Megan

Publié en 2014

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Documentaire

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.

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• Science et technique (Science appliquée)

Langue : Anglais

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

Brown, Dinah

Publié en 2015 Scholastic

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Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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• égalité homme - femme (Citoyenneté / Éducation civique / Droits de l'homme / Société)

Langue : Français

Matilda

Dahl, Roald

Publié en 2007 Puffin Books

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Fiction
Roman

Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back.

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Langue : Français

Moving Target

Gonzalez, Christina Diaz

Publié en 2016 Scholastic

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Fiction
Roman

Cassie Arroyo, an American studying in Rome, has her world ripped apart when someone tries to kill her father, an art history professor at an Italian university. Is she their next target? Cassie sets out to uncover what is happening, only to learn that she is a member of an ancient bloodline that enables her to use the Spear of Destiny--a legendary object that can shape the future. Now running from a secret organization intent on killing those from her bloodline, Cassie must--with the help of some friends--decipher the clues that will lead her to the Spear. Her life--and the fate of the world--depends on it.

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Langue : Français

The jungle book

Kipling, Rudyard

Publié en 2003 Scholastic

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Mowgli is a boy who was raised by wolves. He lives in the jungle and spends his days climbing trees, eating honey, and swimming in forest pools. The jungle is Mowlgi's home--but not everyone wants him there. Mowlgi has a dangerous enemy, the ferocious tiger Shere Kahn. Mowgli knows that someday he will be forced to fight Shere Kahn--or leave the jungle for good.

Retold by Jane B. Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens

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Gangsta Granny

Ross, Tony / Walliams, David

Publié en 2013

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Fiction
Roman

Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever, all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben's help...

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• Vol (Délinquance / Délit / Voleur)

Langue : Français