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Il titolo originale è: Anne of Ingleside a volte tradotto anche come La grande casa è il sesto romanzo della celebre saga di Anna dai capelli rossi, pubblicato nel 1939, dove Anna, pur non avendo perso il suo spirito sognatore, si troverà ad affrontare i piccoli e grandi problemi della vita familiare e la crescita dei suoi figli. Si preoccupa per le loro personalità in via di sviluppo, le loro piccole delusioni, i problemi a scuola, ma riuscirà ad ascoltarli e guidarli con il suo amore e la sua saggezza.

A pair of thriller series from prolific radio writer Wally K. Daly Award-winning dramatist Wally K. Daly penned numerous plays for BBC Radio across a range of genres, including the beloved sci-fi ‘Scream Trilogy’ and the sitcoms Anything Legal and Give Or Take. Featured here are two of his...

Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens’ “most perfect” novel. My story is a long one with many strange events and dark turns. But time is short. I will be brief. In this slim volume I...

When Rose Campbell, a shy orphan, arrives at "The Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boisterous male cousins, she is quite overwhelmed. How could such a delicate young lady, used to the quiet hallways of a girls' boarding school, exist in such a spirited home? It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes everything. Much to the horror of her aunts, Rose's forward-thinking uncle insists that the child get out of the parlor and into the sunshine. And with a little courage and lots of adventures with her mischievous but loving cousins, Rose begins to bloom.

Freckles is the only name he has ever known. His right hand is missing at the wrist, and he is haunted by not knowing how it happened. Raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage, he speaks with a slight Irish accent and sings with a beautiful voice. Now, exhausted after many days of walking, he applies for a job with the Grand Rapids Lumber Company, guarding timber in the Limberlost Swamp from timber thieves. His Swamp Angel declares her love for him and promises that she will find his parents and prove that Freckles comes from "a race of men that have been gentlemen for ages."

Esta es la historia de la señora March y sus cuatro hijas, Meg, Jo, Beth y Amy, quienes desde la inocencia de la niñez experimentan el despertar de la juventud. Con la guerra civil estadounidense de trasfondo, la novela sigue la vida de las cuatro hermanas, con sus enamoramientos, sus aspiraciones intelectuales, sus alegrías y complicaciones.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER A classic YA novel about a teenage girl searching for a sense of home and family that celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier. For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one...

Book four of the Austin Family Chronicles, an award-winning young adult series from Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, about a girl who experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up. A Newbery Honor Book "L'Engle has the magic storytelling gift that makes it a pleasure to lose...

This program includes an author's note read by the author. Four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm and powerful YA remix of the classic novel Little Women, by national bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow. North Carolina, 1863. As the...