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Valentina loves playing video games, and she’s really good at them. When a local esports team asks her to join them for an upcoming tournament, she’s thrilled. There’s just one problem—Valentina has great skills in first-person action games, but winning Kings and Castles relies on teamwork and strategy.

Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda. When Esmeralda is condemned as a witch by Claude Frollo, the tormented archdeacon who lusts after her, Quasimodo attempts to save her; but his intentions are misunderstood.

Victor er en lille abe, der bor ude i junglen. Victor kan kun lide appelsiner, og han gider slet ikke smage noget nyt. Desværre løber han en dag tør for appelsiner! Nu må Victor alene ud i junglen og lede efter noget andet at spise. Den selvlærte illustrator og forfatter Jan Mogensen debuterede i 1981 med billedbogen "Har du sovet godt, Bamse?", og har siden da illustreret en lang række klassikere fra H. C. Andersen til Bjarne Reuter. Han er også kendt for Pixi-samlinger som "Pixi Alfabetet" (2011) og "Pixi julekalender" (2012).

Tom gets to take all sorts of cool classes at the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, but robotics may be the one he is most excited for. Their teacher is holding a battling robot tournament, and Tom has to build a machine that will come out on top. With the final battle coming up, Tom and his friends need as much time as possible to refine their masterpiece. But the rest of their teachers have been giving so many pop quizzes that they can barely focus in class, never mind concentrate on the tournament.

Tom Swift and His Motorcycle is Volume 2 of the original Tom Swift series. In this book, first published in 1910, our hero, the young inventor Tom Swift, buys a motorboat at auction that he "soups up", making it one of the fastest boats on Lake Charlupa. Meanwhile, the Happy Harry Gang has some sort of interest in the motorboat, with shady characters lurking about the Swift laboratories and the boat.

Middle school is hard. Your bodies are changing, your friends are changing, classes are harder, and tough things happen. This “support group in a book” is specifically geared to you. Read stories written by kids just like you, about their middle school years, and: true friends and new friends; mean girls... and boys!; embarrassing moments; bully payback; crushes and young love; being happy with yourself; tough times; family issues; doing what’s right and lots more!

Bip ! Scriii ! Boum !... Sur les routes du Domaine de la joyeuse rainette, un autobus bariolé file à tombeau ouvert vers un rite que même la nuit redoute. Au volant, une âme damnée; à bord, des enfants pris au piège d’une malédiction qui enfle sous la lueur de la lune rouge. Quand une bande de téméraires—et un singe au courage démesuré—choisissent de dire non à la peur, débute une course haletante où chaque virage peut tout faire basculer.

BOUM, CRAC, PATOW: des feux d’artifice déchaînent la panique et Ricco sème la pagaille. Au milieu des étincelles, d’une pluie de pop-corn et de braises à maîtriser, d’étranges pierres scintillent—les Féeries. Bientôt, une forêt aux secrets anciens appelle, inquiétante, changeante: la forêt de Mélisande. Et derrière les branches, un nom chuchoté comme une promesse de lumière et de vertige: Lumenstria.

Set in a richly rendered 15th-century Paris, Victor Hugo's powerful drama focuses on a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda, the two men (including an obsessed and manipulative priest) who love her, and the pitiful hunchback Quasimodo who tries to save her. With this simplified yet spellbinding version, kids can enjoy all the excitement of Hugo's masterful story.

Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that...

Vous savez ce qu'ils me font, mes parents, quand soi-disant je leur manque de respect sous prétexte que je leur coupe la parole ? Ils me recouvrent de peinture qui rend invisible. C'est nul : ça ne m'empêche pas de parler et tout le monde me rentre dedans ! Quatre enfants se cachent sous une table et parlent de "punitions" ; celles qu'on donne aux enfants et celles qu'on donnerait volontiers aux parents quand ils ne se tiennent pas à carreau ! Après tout, les parents sont des enfants comme les autres !