Eleanor is a new girl in town, and she feels very alone. Wearing mis-matched clothes, having red hair and a mad home life, she certainly stands out in a crowd. Then she takes a seat on the bus next to Park. Park is a quiet, cautious and, in Eleanor's eyes, fantastically cool. Park has figured out that flying under the radar is the best way to get by. Gradually with late-night conversations and songs, Eleanor and Park fall in love...
Soon to be a DreamWorks movie, coming to theaters 9/27/24! Includes 8 pages of full color stills from the movie! Wall-E meets Hatchet in this #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her. From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
When Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as three strangers take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool . . . who happens to be a ghost. But then a mysterious pony shows up at his door, and Silas knows what he has to do. So begins a perilous journey to find his father - a journey that will connect him with his past, his future, and the unknowable world around him. PONY is destined to become a future classic.
Cameron en zijn moeder slaan op de vlucht voor zijn gewelddadige vader. Ze gaan wonen op een boerderij met een griezelig verleden, waar Cameron steeds verder in verstrikt raakt. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
During his last year at Watford School of Magicks, Simon Snow, the Chosen One, faces a magic-eating monster wearing his face, a break-up, and a missing nemesis.
'UTTERLY,' the waves were whispering, 'UTTERLY...' It was always at sundown they were seen. In that twilight hour, when the walls between the worlds grew thin, strange things might slip through the cracks. Sometimes then, so the stories went, enchanted islands would appear in the empty ocean to the west of Wildsea. When Utterly Dark was a baby, she was washed up on the shores of the Autumn Isles and taken in by the Watcher of Wildsea. But everything changes when her guardian suddenly drowns. Now who will keep the Watch, and make sure Wildsea stays safe from the strange forces teeming in the deep ocean around them? The bestselling author of the Mortal Engines series spins another enchanting story of fantastical adventure as a young orphan girl defends the coast of Wildsea from a mysterious, unseen threat.
Georgia has a love of horses. She is desperate to buy a little, dusty winged horse that has appeared in a local antique shop. This tiny, winged horse proves to be the talisman that transports Georgia right into the rivalries and the high-octane excitement of the hugely competitive Stellata horse race.
Age-range: 12+ 'City of Masks is a poignant, touching and exciting novel, difficult to put down. This is one of the best time-slip stories that I have read in recent years. Without doubt a masterwork of contemporary children's literature.' Edgardo Zaghini Children's Literature Officer, Booktrust A fantastic first novel in a trilogy. Set in a parallel world, in an Italy that in this world is called Talia and in a Venice that in this world is called Bellezza, the narrative follows Lucien, who in this world is ill with cancer. Given a marbled notebook to help him communicate when his throat hurts too much to speak, this notebook is the means that transports Lucien to this magical, dangerous new world. This is a world which is set in the C16, and thrills to the delight of political intrigue, including assassination attempts both foiled and successful. The parallel Venice is astonishingly evoked, with the silks and velvets, the sensuousness of the food and the elegance of the city and its waterways all beautifully and powerfully described. The world of Talia is unforgettably and convincingly real.
Sky's talisman is an ornate and delicate blue glass bottle. Sky is propelled right into the midst of a deadly feud between the di Chimici and Nucci families, who think nothing of sliding a knife between a man's ribs for revenge.
Matt, a dyslexic but highly intelligent boy, finds himself in the Scriptorium of Padavia University, where he learns he is a Stravagante with the ability to time travel using a leather-bound book as his talisman.
Een liefdesverhaal vol moord en mysterie in middeleeuws Italië
Als de Italiaanse Sylvano (16) in de 14e eeuw onterecht wordt beschuldigd van moord, vindt hij onderdak in een klooster, waar hij een meisje uit een naburig klooster ontmoet. Dan wordt het klooster opgeschrikt door een serie bloedige moorden.
Originalausgabe / Young Adult Literature. Englische Lektüre für das 5. Lernjahr
When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award
Drie kinderen, die in de vakantie bij hun oom op een boerderij logeren, komen voor een vreemde verrassing te staan: hij stuurt hen de ruimte in!
De gehandicapte, veel te kleine, maar slimme Kevin heeft een heel bijzondere vriendschap met de grote, niet al te snuggere Max. Samen zijn ze slim en sterk. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
De invloed van de kwaliteit van de arbeid op de loopbaanontwikkeling van laaggeschoolde jonge vrouwen
Bloemlezing van verhalen waarin vakantievreugde verkeert in vakantieleed.
Nadat zes jongens en meisjes een noodlanding hebben moeten maken, moeten ze op een onbewoond eiland in Noord-Australië zien te overleven.
