How did the camel get its hump? Why won't cats do as they're told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India, and they are full of jokes, subtexts, and exotic references. This fully illustrated edition of this classic includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.
"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined"--Provided by publisher
Un pantin ventriloque, rien de tel pour avoir du succes ! Caro s'amuse beaucoup avec le sien. Jalouse, sa soeur jumelle en achete un et le nomme Monsieur Wood . A partir de ce jour, des evenements diaboliques vont se produire dans la maison des Lafaye. Monsieur Wood est-il aussi inanime qu'il y parait ?
Le 7 juillet 1942, Hannah Goslar sonne chez son amie Anne et découvre avec stupeur que la maison est vide. La famille Frank a quitté Amsterdam - sans doute pour se réfugier en Suisse, dit un voisin. À cause des lois anti-juives, le quotidien d'Hannah devient chaque jour plus difficile. Puis tout bascule une nuit de juin 1943, lorsque des soldats nazis frappent à sa porte...
Dans les montagnes d'Arabie, le Black, Sheitan est un cheval convoite par de cruels voleurs. Celui qui deviendra bientot Black se refugie dans le desert ou il retourne a l'etat sauvage. La, il se lie avec Rashid, un jeune Bedouin. Ensemble, ils vont tenter de survivre aux voleurs qui se sont lances sur leurs traces.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm - cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise - and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier.
Ellie learns to deal with her self-image as she battles anorexia.
A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living. Twelve-year-old George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. When, in a tiny act of rebellion, George breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, he awakes an ancient power. This power has been dormant for centuries but the results are instant and terrifying: A stone Pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George. He runs for his life but it seems that no one can see what he’s running from. No one, except Edie, who is also trapped in this strange world. And this is just the beginning as the statues of London awake… This is a story of statues coming to life; of a struggle between those with souls and those without; of how one boy who has been emotionally abandoned manages to find hope.
Ellie has a boyfriend! And he's really, truly interested in her - not in her best friends, Magda and Nadine! She and oh-so-gorgeous Russell have so much in common - Ellie knows they're made for each other. If only Dad thought so too . . . While Ellie tries her best to cope with Dad's totally unreasonable curfew, Magda's dealing with her crush on a teacher - and Nadine's falling for slimy Liam again. What they need is a girls' night out - but they might get a little more than they bargained for . . . Books in the series- 1. Girls in Love 2. Girls Under Pressure 3. Girls Out Late 4. Girls in Tears
