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The first of a new series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. IGGY AND ME is a series of family stories featuring the mishaps and shenanigans of the irrepressible 5-year-old Iggy as seen through the eyes...

The second of a new series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. More funny and endearing family stories featuring the the irrepressible 5-year-old IGGY as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo, the...

The first thing every listener will want to know is whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. She certainly does. As a matter of fact, page one starts off in this manner: "Anne Shirley was curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation."

A vida e sua relação intrínseca e magnífica com o tempo: este é o mote desse livro de contos do premiado escritor Dilan Camargo. O amanhã, o hoje e o ontem entrelaçados numa composição literária convidativa e profundamente reflexiva. Aquilo que fomos, quem somos agora e todas as possibilidades e problemas que nosso porvir há de trazer. Com narrativas e personagens que exploram dramas e situações do passado, do presente e do futuro de modo surpreendente o autor nos brinda com um tipo diferente de viagem no tempo para que o jovem leitor possa sentir e refletir sobre tudo o que foi, é e o que pode ser.

Thirteen lives. One garden. Set in Cleveland, Newbery-Award-winning author Paul Fleischman's poignant book is a large lesson in connectedness and community for all. When a derelict vacant lot is gradually transformed into a community garden in inner city Cleveland, the people of this community find their differences are less apparent and their isolation dissolved. Performed by thirteen multicuturally and age-authentic voices, this audiobook is designed for listeners of all ages.