Книги для детей: прочее
20204 кн.
2014 Red Cedar Book Award – Shortlisted 2014 Forest of Reading, Silver Birch Express – Shortlisted, Fiction 2013 Diamond Willow Award – Shortlisted 2013 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award – Shortlisted 2013 Saskatchewan Young Reader’s Choice Award – Shortlisted 2013 White Ravens Award – Commended What do you do when the park next door is inhabited by 400-year-old creatures? Christopher has a problem. He has just moved to Toronto. He has a new school and no friends. But even...
| Автор | Philippa Dowding |
There was something floating in the water ahead of the canoe. It looks dead, whatever it is, someone said. Thats where the mystery begins, and eleven-year-old Alan and his friends are determined to solve it on their own, without adult interference. They have all the tools they needZiggys canoe, Jose’s ability to impress parents, and Alans detective instinct. Mix in a gang of bullies on jet-skis, an eccentric hermit, and the theft of a priceless violin, and the stage is set for a fast-action...
| Автор | H. Mel Malton |
Short-listed for the 2008 Red Maple Award Keira, kidnapped from Ireland by Vikings, is a slave living in legendary Vinland. Two native bands, the Beothuck and the Thule, are also fighting over the land, thrusting the Norsemen into war. While the Vikings search for a new home, an accident at sea leaves Keira miraculously saved by a Beothuck warrior. Keira settles into the Beothuck way of life, learning their customs and coming to care for them. But she dreams of risking everything in order to...
| Автор | Christopher Dinsdale |
The fate of the known world is settled on the shores of Canada In Christopher Dinsdale’s third historical adventure for young readers, Connor MacDonald and his mother have encountered Henry Sinclair, Norwegian prince and Earl of Orkney, who rescues them from highwaymen. Prince Henry is an adventurer who has sailed to the farthest reaches of the known world. On a dark Egyptian beach, he was given a treasure so precious that kings would sacrifice everything in order to acquire it. But unlike the...
| Автор | Christopher Dinsdale |
New Year’s 1955 is coming up fast, and eleven-year-old Vivian is determined to buy a snazzy new diary. The diary is soon put to good use, as Vivian must untangle the web of problems in her life, including a stolen keepsake of her grandfathers and her constantly arguing parents. Does her grandfather suspect her when he realizes one of his greatest treasures is missing? Does her father really mean it when he says hes leaving? Compelled to do everything in her power to keep her family...
| Автор | Sarah Hartt-Snowbell |
In a new town, in a new school, fourteen-year-old Terra is experiencing many of the trials and tribulations that face her peers. She isn’t finding it easy to make new friends, nor leave behind her old ones. And while some of the new Inglewood girls seem kind of exciting, is that the crowd she really wants to hang out with? And what about that cute guy Glenn from the new school? Could he possibly want to be friends with Terra – or more? Terra has many, ultimately crucial, choices to make. All of...
| Автор | Grace Casselman |
The Lawrence family (three children, one dog, one cat and two parents) has a crisis on its hands – too much laundry and no place to put it. Are the thirteen baskets they buy in the mysterious shop in the market the end of their problems? Or is it just the beginning of a grand and maybe dangerous adventure for Abigail, Jacob and Ernest? When the baskets become the gateway to another time, the children encounter mysteries which they must solve…before their parents disappear altogether.
| Автор | Margie Rutledge |
Thirteen-year-old Norah Bingham and her mother plan to spend Christmas in the country with Caroline Stoppard, Norah’s great-aunt. When her mother is called away on business, Norah goes on her own to stay with the aunt, someone she has never even met. From the start, the woman makes it plain that she does not welcome Norahs company, nor that of Norah’s cousins, Andrew and Becca, who arrive two days later. The isolated Stoppard mansion is as dismal as the Ontario winter. But the cousins soon...
| Автор | Peggy Dymond Leavey |
Jade is a curious nine-year-old who likes to help out at her family’s Chinese restaurant, The Fragrant Garden, after school. Though she is often allowed to help set tables or clean up, she longs to be part of the more exciting tasks such as helping in the kitchen or using the cash register. Her father thinks she is too young for these responsibilities – until a fire breaks out in the kitchen. Jade’s quick-thinking response wins her praise and her father reconsiders her request for more...
| Автор | Day's Lee |
Im siebten Band begegnet Bomba amerikanischen Forschern, denen er nach einer Überschwemmungskatastrophe Hilfe leistet. Dr. Yarrow, der Leiter der Expedition, untersucht auf Bombas Wunsch hin seinen Pflegevater Cody Casson, nachdem sie ins Dorf der freundlich gesinnten Araos zurückgekehrt sind. Er stellt bei dem alten Forscher eine Gehirnerkrankung fest, die nur mit Hilfe eines Giftes geheilt werden kann. Dieses Gift jedoch ist in der 'Blume des Todes' enthalten, und diese Blume wächst...
| Автор | Roy Rockwood |
Dicen que no hay mayor ciego que el que no quiere ver…Pero si ser la segundona de dos hijas tiene algún aspecto positivo, Mio aún no se lo ha visto, y ganas para descubrirlo no le faltan. Sin embargo, ni vivir bajo la sombra de Aiko Sandoval, ni sufrir los favoritismos de sus padres, es comparable a llevar toda la vida enamorada del hombre que suspira por su hermana. Debería haberse dado por vencida sabiendo que no tiene posibilidades, pero un nuevo puesto en el bufete de abogados en el que...
| Автор | Eleanor Rigby |
En estas páginas Ernesto Garratt retoma a los personajes de Allegados –su premiada novela debut–, para desplegar esa combinación exquisita de fantasía desbordada con un realismo implacable. La acción de Casa propia arranca en un viejo y sucio caserón de Rodrigo de Araya, adonde el joven protagonista y su madre han llegado tras sucesivos cambios de habitación, a la espera de obtener el subsidio para una vivienda. La espera de este acontecimiento constituye un elemento central en este volumen...
| Автор | Ernesto Garratt |
Si no puedes con el abogado de tu enemigo… sedúcelo.El único motivo por el que Marc Miranda ha abandonado su oficina como exitoso abogado corporativo es para arruinar al enemigo a través de su divorcio. Aunque el ámbito civil no es su especialidad, no es esta dificultad lo que complica sus planes, sino la invencible rival que ha contratado el equipo contrario y que, para colmo, debía de ser la única mujer capaz de sacar a la luz su verdadera naturaleza. Para tener una sola oportunidad de ganar...
| Автор | Eleanor Rigby |
En 1578, Francis Drake, corsario al servicio de Inglaterra, llegó a la bahía de Cicop, hoy conocida como La Herradura, en la región de Coquimbo. Ante las inclemencias climáticas recaló su navío Golden Hind en una bahía protegida de los vientos del sur, a la que nombraría como El Refugio. El mito popular sostiene que el mismo Drake enterró ahí un valioso tesoro, pero los expertos difieren y aseguran que Subatol Deul, pirata hebreo, habría realizado el entierro. Otros afirman que fue lord Anson,...
| Автор | Ricardo Latcham |
Henry Denton lleva años siendo abducido por unos alienígenas que aparecen cuando el mundo se queda en sombras. Un día, estos le dan un ultimátum: el mundo se acabará en 144 días… a menos que él, Henry, pulse un botón rojo para evitarlo.Pero Henry no tiene razones suficientes para hacerlo. Su novio, Jesse, se suicidó el año pasado, dejando una estela de dolor y preguntas. Las cosas con su familia no es que vayan muy bien, y el chico con el que pasa el rato es uno de los matones que lo acosan en...
| Автор | Shaun David Hutchinson |
Severin lebt mit seinen Eltern auf einem Bergbauernhof in den Alpen. Dort führt die kleine Familie ein ärmliches, hartes Leben. Severin macht sich Gedanken über die Zukunft, und als er eines Tages ganz verträumt am Fenster seiner Kammer sitzt, sieht er auf einem Blatt des Birnbaumes einen im Sonnenlicht funkelnden Regentropfen.Etwas Unglaubliches passiert: Dieser Tropfen verzaubert Severin, sodass auch der Junge zu einem Wassertropfen wird. Beide gehen auf eine abenteuerliche Reise …
| Автор | Hermann J. Schuhen |
Mark Twains zweites Buch mit dem jugendlichen, von der damaligen Gesellschaft abgestoßenen Huckleberry Finn ist nicht nur abenteuerlich, sondern stellenweise auch sehr zivilisationskritisch und geradezu düster. Es handelt Sklaverei, den Wert eines Menschen, um Lüge und Betrug, um moralisches Tun und um echte Freundschaft, gegen rassismus, rassismus kinderbuch, rassismus deutschland, rassismus für kinder, rassismus in schulbüchern, rassismus und kulturelle identität, george floyd shirt, abenteuer...
| Автор | Марк Твен |
Sind da Schatten? Nur vom Mond beschienen ragt das Stahlgerippe der alten Achterbahn in die Höhe. Tessa, Lea und Vincent sind mitten in der Nacht verbotener Weise über den Zaun des schon jahrelang geschlossenen Lunaparks geklettert – ein bisschen neugierig wird man doch sein dürfen! Als sich aber ein altes Pferdekarussell wie von selbst in Bewegung setzt und sich ein Schatten oben auf dem Looping der Achterbahn bewegt, merken die drei, dass etwas Unheimliches nach ihnen greift …
| Автор | Barbara Schinko |
A modo de diario de campo, escribo cada palabra para dejar testimonio de vivencias mías, no tan mías, y de sentimiento ajeno. Este libro tiene caras, sus poemas tienen nombres, cada verso esta perfumado y cada punto esconde un silencio vertiginoso. «Nefelibata» es, la parte de mí que se asoma por los balcones, que está de paso hasta que vuelva la tormenta, que escucha la mañana y acude al silencio cuando la rutina aturde. «Peripatético» es quien soy ocupado, cuando me encierro entre aporías,...
| Автор | Augusto M. Otero |
Du möchtest Popstar werden? In diesem Hörbuch erfährst du alles, was du wissen musst, um die Bühnen der Welt zu erobern. Was sollte ich als späterer Popstar mitbringen? Welche Wege führen zum Plattenvertrag? Was sind mögliche Hindernisse, was sind die Schattenseiten einer Karriere als Popstar? Und welche Rolle spielen Talent, Fleiß und Durchhaltevermögen oder Plattformen wie Youtube und Soundcloud? Die Künstler Sasha, Yvonne Catterfeld und Mousse T. erzählen von ihrem Weg ins Rampenlicht und...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In der Ich wär so gern-Reihe erfährst du alles darüber, was du über deinen späteren Berufswunsch wissen musst. Welche Voraussetzungen muss ich vorab erfüllen? Welche Wege führen zu meinem Traumjob? Was sind mögliche Hindernisse, was die Schattenseiten? Wir begleiten (teils prominente) Fachleute und Experten zu ihrem Arbeitsplatz, lauschen ihnen im Arbeitsalltag über die Schulter – und geben dir Tipps & Tricks, wie du deinen Wunschberuf erlangen kannst. Viele Interviews, O-Töne und Geräusche...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Discover the new and improved guide to all things manners! With updated content and fun illustrations, this title is more relevant than ever. As a comprehensive manners guide, girls will learn proper etiquette for everyday events and tricky social situations. This guide is also filled with great advice on everything from eating in fancy restaurants and handling troublemakers at parties to regaining composure after embarrassing accidents. Humorous illustrations, letters from other girls, and...
| Автор | Nancy Holyoke |
This book has it all—now with updated content and illustrations! It’s an insightful, age-appropriate guide to boys, a top topic for girls today, and provides straight talk on what to do when everyone’s wondering “who likes who?” The book explores being friends, going out, breaking up, being yourself, and much more. Letters from girls and advice on boys, along with quizzes and tips, help a girl get her brain back on track when her heart’s in a wreck.
| Автор | Nancy Holyoke |
You have the exact same job as millions of kids your age – you're a student! Your job is to gather information and learn fundamentals that will benefit you all through your life. It's actually pretty exciting when you think about it that way! So, whether you go to public, private, or home school, this book is for you. It's filled with quizzes, tricks, and awesome advice about school. There isn't a magical equation for becoming the «best student ever,» but this book will help...
| Автор | Emma MacLaren Henke |