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El caso del mensaje de despedida (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #06)
By Nancy Springer. 2021
"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes--Sherlock's much-younger sister--tackles two mysteries: finding the missing Lady Blanchefleur, who disappeared in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century…
London, and deciphering a message from her own estranged mother." -- Provided by NLSEl caso del pictograma (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #05)
By Nancy Springer. 2020
"London, late 1850s. Enola, the much-younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when Enola's investigation into…
the disappearance of her landlady Mrs. Tupper, a Crimean War widow, grows cold." -- Provided by NLSEl caso del marqués desaparecido (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #01)
By Nancy Springer. 2018
"England, 1888. When her sixty-four-year-old mother disappears on Enola's fourteenth birthday, Enola sends telegrams to her much older brothers Mycroft…
and Sherlock Holmes. After deciphering why her mother left, Enola escapes to London to search for her and becomes involved in a second mystery." -- Provided by NLSEl caso de la dama zurda (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #02)
By Nancy Springer. 2018
"London, 1889. Eluding her brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola sets up her own detective agency in London under…
an assumed name. Using many disguises and costumes, Enola investigates the disappearance of sixteen-year-old Lady Cecily, who may have eloped." -- Provided by NLSAbdul's story
By Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow. 2022
"Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until…
Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist." -- Provided by publisherThe lion, the witch and the wardrobe
By C. S Lewis. 1997
Four English children find their way through a huge wardrobe in an old house to the mysterious land of Narnia,…
which is under the spell of the White Witch. Prequel to Prince Caspian, the Return to Narnia (BR 07238). For grades 4-7 and older readersThe quiet little woman: three enchanting Christmas stories
By Louisa Alcott, C. Dudash, Louisa Alcott. 1999
Stories by Alcott from the 1870s. In The Quiet Little Woman, thirteen-year-old Patty, an orphan, dreams of being adopted but…
is placed as a servant in the large Murray household. Through Aunt Jane's intervention on Christmas day, the Murrays begin to appreciate Patty's loving nature. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1999The adventures of Pinocchio: story of a puppet
By Carlo Collodi, Nancy L. Canepa, Carmelo Lettere. 2002
Geppetto carves a wooden puppet and names him Pinocchio. The rascally marionette walks and talks like a real boy, but…
his nose grows longer each time he lies. Classic Italian children's tale originally published in 1883. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2002The farthest shore (Earthsea Ser. #Vol. 3)
By Ursula K Le Guin. 2001
Ged, archmage of Roke, and Arren, young prince of Enlad, set out to find and challenge the evil that threatens…
to destroy Earthsea itself. Sequel to The Tombs of Atuan (BR 15379). For grades 6-9. National Book Award. 1972Partition libre pour Isabelle: roman
By Yasmine Khlat. 2004
Après un long séjour en Afrique, Jean est de retour dans son village natal. Il est très malade. Mais il…
décide de repartir vers le soleil. Sa soeur, Maïssa, l'accompagne. Il est à bout de forces et très vite s'effondre. Au plus près des corps et des sensations, ce livre, où, dans la détresse, les liens de fraternité deviennent incandescents, évoque un certain été 1891 que vécurent Rimbaud et sa soeur Isabelle. -- 4e de couvHistoire du monde en 9 guitares
By Erik Orsenna. 2004
Tout commence dans la boutique d'un luthier, avec l'arrivée d'un jeune homme désireux de vendre une guitare. L'artisan va le…
dissuader et lui conseille d'apprendre d'abord à mieux connaître cet instrument magique... C'est le début d'un long voyage parmi les siècles et les civilisations. Car la guitare est presque aussi vieille que l'homme. Des pyramides d'Égypte aux derniers temps de l'empire inca, de la cour de Louis XIV aux champs de coton du vieux Sud américain, des doigts de Django Reinhardt à ceux de Jimi Hendrix, elle connaît toutes les musiques et sait dire tous les sentiments. Une histoire de la guitare, alors? Oui, à moins que ce ne soit la guitare qui ait tissé l'histoire de l'homme [...] . -- 4e de couv20,000 leagues under the sea (Classic starts)
By Jules Verne, Dan Andreasen, Lisa R. Church. 2006
A retelling of Jules Verne's original tale follows the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they…
sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. For grades 3-6. 2006Soumchi: A Tale of Love and Adventure
By Amos Oz, Quint Buchholz, Penelope Farmer. 1978
When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a…
gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyed--even if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of the city and across the desert, toward the heart of Africa. But first he wants to show his new prize to his friend Aldo. In the tradition of such memorable characters as Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield, Amos Oz's Soumchi is fresh, funny, and always engaging.The Lost Soul
By Olga Tokarczuk. 2017
The only book in English for readers of all ages by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk is a beautifully illustrated…
meditation on the fullness of life."Olga Tokarczuk&’s The Lost Soul, an experimental fable illustrated by Joanna Concejo and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, resonates with our current moment. . . . What a striking, and lovely, material object it is." —New York Times"The Lost Soul, by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, is a quiet meditation on happiness, following a busy man who loses his soul. . . It pours a childlike sense of wonder into a once-upon-a-time tale that is already resonating with adults around the world." —The GuardianThe Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return."Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul—he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " —from The Lost SoulThe Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old."You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul."Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award, Special Mention 2018, Prix de l'Union Internationale pour les Livres de Jeunesse (IBBY), The White Raven (IJB Munich), and the Łódź Design Festival Award.S.: A Novel (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser. #Bks. 1-4)
By John Updike. 1988
S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu…
mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve moksha (salvation, release from illusion). "S." details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser, and her psychiatrist--messages cleverly designed to keep her old world in order while she is creating for herself a new one. This is Hester Prynne's side of the triangle described by Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter; it is also a burlesque of the quest for enlightenment, and an affectionate meditation on American womanhood.From the Trade Paperback edition.The White Rose
By Jean Hanff Korelitz. 2004
Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel.At…
forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the eighteenth-century adventuress, Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her eldest friend. When Marian's cousin, the snobbish Barton, announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduate student in Marian's department, Marian, Oliver, and Sophie find their lives woefully entangled, and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. All three of them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it's always a gift.From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from the Hamptons to Millbrook, THE WHITE ROSE is at once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss's beloved opera, Der Rosenkavalier, and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.Yayaho, le croqueur de mots (Le raton Laveur Ser.)
By Geneviève Lemieux. 1999
Un Yayaho est un croqueur de mots. Il en croque de petits morceaux et se sauve chez lui pour en…
créer de nouveaux. Il est amoureux des mots. Ses facéties créent cependant de curieuses situations: Madame Hortense se retrouve avec deux niches plutôt que deux caniches, Olivier avec une nouille plutôt qu'une grenouille, les Dubois avec un lion plutôt qu'un million. Années 1-3. 1999.L'inconnu du placard (Maboul Ser. #2)
By Laurent Chabin. 2001
En l'absence de leurs parents et leur gardienne, Donatien et Justine sont seuls à la maison. Justine dit qu'il y…
a quelqu'un dans le placard. La peur chemine. Années 1-3. 2001.The flute
By Rachna Gilmore, Pulak Biswas. 2011
Chandra nearly drowns when a swollen river overflows its banks. Tragically her beloved mother and father are swept away in…
the flood. Raised by a cruel and uncaring aunt and uncle, the little girl finds solace in her mother's magic flute. Grades K-3 and older readers. c2011.Eight days: a story of Haiti
By Edwidge Danticat, Alix Delinois. 2010
While Junior is trapped for 8 days beneath his collapsed house after an earthquake, he uses his imagination for comfort.…
Drawing on beautiful, everyday-life memories, Junior paints a sparkling picture of Haiti for each of those days--flying kites with his best friend or racing his sister around St. Marc's Square--helping him through the tragedy until he is finally rescued. Grades K-3. 2010.