In this dramatic conclusion to the Eden-Glassie quartet, a terrifying cyclone brings down powerlines and creates havoc. A mysterious and threatening prowler is attracted to the homestead, and Auntie Helen is attacked and injured, but...
Courage
- Author:Forrestal, ElaineSummary:
- Author:McKay, Sharon E.Summary:
Unbelievable facts about an amazing specimen—YOU! Most of us eat, run, or sleep without thinking about it. But our bodies are masterful machines of intricate design that perform amazing feats daily. The fifth book in Annick’s successful...
- Author:Wright, ConnorSummary:
All Tobias wanted to do was stop a robbery. On the way to Doctor Svoboda’s Clinic For Nervous Health, Tobias J. Poole finds himself confronting the famous airship robber Caledfryn H. Hawthorne. Tobias’s act of bravery doesn’t turn out...
- Author:WALLACE, IanSummary:
Vincenzo has a huge problem. He wants to be just like his friends, but he is also quite proud of his Italian heritage. The crisis revolves around a "stinky meat sandwich." Cultural differences between an Italian immigrant...
- Author:Jenoff, PamSummary:
1946, Manhattan. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she...
- Author:Lasky, KathrynSummary:
Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, and one day Soren is captured and imprisoned with other owls in a dark canyon. To escape, Soren and his friends will...
- Author:Draper, PennySummary:
Thirteen-year-old Nathalie Vaughan struggles to save friends and neighbours on the night of Canada's Frank Slide disaster.
At 4:00 a.m., April 29, 1903, Nathalie lies awake in the booming coal town of Frank, at the base of Turtle...
- Author:Myers, KarenSummary:
A collection of five short stories from The Hounds of Annwn.THE CALL – A very young Rhian discovers her beast-sense and, with it, the call of a lost hound.It’s not safe in the woods where cries for help can attract unwelcome attention,...
- Author:Garlock, DorothySummary:
Gwendolyn Foster is thrown when her boyfriend proposes to her. But she has another dream altogether--to be a writer. Then Hank Ellis comes into her life. He has been drowning in grief since his brother died. But when he sees Gwen,...
- Author:Nixon, Joan LowerySummary:
A high school senior is convinced her friend Barry did not commit suicide but was a murder victim, and she endangers her own life to prove it.
- Author:Charles, NormaSummary:
In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-year-old son. When the kidnappers try to grab Marco, his...
- Author:McMullan, KateSummary:
After accidentally killing a dragon, Wiglaf hopes his friends at Dragon Slayers' Academy will be able to help him prove himself a hero when he faces that dragon's mother, Seetha, the Beast of the East.
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
Les fans de la série Divergence, écrite par Veronica Roth, auteure no.1 du New York Times, seront ravis de mettre la main sur Quatre — un recueil divergent, un ajout à la série qui comprend quatre histoires qui ont lieu avant Divergence...
- Author:McKissack, PatSummary:
Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.
- Author:Deuker, CarlSummary:
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand...
- Author:Bromley, NickSummary:
A crocodile falls into a quiet storybook and wreaks havoc on the characters, in a tale that invites youngsters to slam the book shut or find the courage to take a peek inside.
- Author:Barcelo, FrançoisSummary:
Mais je te promets une chose, ajoute Lisandru : je vais faire l'escalade du mont Chapeau dès cet été.
Napoléon doute que son grand-père soit capable de faire une pareille escalade. Peu de gens sont montés jusqu'en haut. Surtout,... - Author:Springer, NancySummary:
Young Lionel, minstrel in the outlaw band of Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin, tries to find his courage when she is abducted from Sherwood Forest.
- Author:Isluanik, HenrySummary:
Henry Isluanik retells the Kiviuq legend, a version passed on to him by his mother, of a courageous hunter who was swept out to sea during a storm and who spent many years trying to find his way back home.
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
Un choix peut vous transformer — ou encore vous détruire. Mais chaque choix comporte son lot de conséquences, et alors qu’elle est entourée d’une vague de mécontentement au sein des factions, Tris Prior doit encore essayer de sauver...