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By Terry Pratchett

ISBN-10: 2841726509

ISBN-13: 9782841726509

Londres vers les années 1850, capitale de los angeles richesse et surtout de l. a. misère. Le jeune Roublard est un « ravageur », un de ces laissés-pour-compte des bas quartiers qui draguent les égouts en quête de menue monnaie ou d’objets de valeur. Aucun avenir ne l’attend. Jusqu’à cette nuit où, sous une pluie torrentielle, il vient au secours d’une mystérieuse jeune femme à los angeles merci d’un enlèvement. L’aventure a commencé. À lui de justifier son surnom.

À peine mâtiné de fantastique, Roublard est un hommage à Charles Dickens, lequel y tient d’ail leurs un rôle de foremost plan avec son ami Henry Mayhew, un des rares qui dénonçaient l’inhumaine situation faite au plus grand nombre. Puisqu’il inscrit son roman dans los angeles réalité de l’époque, Terry Pratchett y convoque allègrement l. a. reine Victoria, Disraeli, Robert Peel, le modernisateur de los angeles police londonienne, voire Sweeny Todd, le barbier mythique de Fleet road. Et ne s’interdit pas d’y exercer son humour… ravageur.

By Lois Lowry

ISBN-10: 0385732554

ISBN-13: 9780385732550

Whilst Jonas turns 12, he's singled out to obtain distinctive education from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to obtain the reality. there's no turning again.

By Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio

ISBN-10: 1597802875

ISBN-13: 9781597802871

The commercial Revolution has escalated into all-out struggle. it's been eighteen years because the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared lower than mysterious situations. this day, Europe is governed through the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over — and terrorizing — the hapless inhabitants with their weird and wonderful innovations and unchecked energy, whereas the downtrodden dream of the Hetrodynes' return.
At Transylvania Polygnostic collage, an attractive, younger scholar named Agatha Clay turns out to don't have anything yet undesirable good fortune. Incapable of establishing whatever that truly works, yet devoted to her stories, Agatha turns out destined for a lackluster profession as a minor lab assistant. but if the collage is overthrown via the ruthless tyrant Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, Agatha reveals herself a prisoner aboard his immense airship citadel Wulfenbach — and it starts off to appear like she could hold a spark of Mad technological know-how in the end.

By Max Doty

With their father misplaced in anger and self-loathing, James "Truck" Wheeler has raised his more youthful brother Ted as top as he may possibly, contemplating he's only a teen himself. In go back, Ted idolizes his brother.

Now, in the course of their three hundred and sixty five days of highschool jointly, Ted will notice there are troubling points to Truck and his associates, The Kings. whilst the lads assign numbers to every lady in school and start a dismal contest, Ted could be stuck enjoying a video game that objectives his top acquaintances, together with the woman he loves: Kallea Whitney.

The unique novel that encouraged the award-winning movie, virtually Kings is a gritty, robust tale of the alternatives that deliver brothers jointly and tear them aside

By Margaret Peterson Haddix

ISBN-10: 0545349753

ISBN-13: 9780545349758

Through the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have exposed history's maximum mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets and techniques. yet are they able to face the reality in regards to the Cahills and the foremost to their unequalled strength? After a whirlwind race that's taken them throughout 5 continents, Amy and Dan face the main the tough problem but- a job no Cahill dared to visualize. whilst confronted with a call which could switch the way forward for the area, can young ones be successful the place 500 years worthy of well-known ancestors failed?

By Arthur Slade

ISBN-10: 0375897402

ISBN-13: 9780375897405

A phenomenal Steampunk event within the deeps!

Transforming his visual appeal and stealing mystery records from the French is all in a day’s paintings for fourteen-year-old Modo, a British undercover agent. yet his most recent mission—to discover the underwater secret of whatever referred to as the Ictíneo—seems most unlikely. There are rumors of a sea monster and a fish as gigantic as a boat. French spies are after it, and Mr. Socrates, Modo’s grasp, desires to locate it first. Modo and his fellow undercover agent, Octavia, commence their undertaking in long island urban, then take a steamship around the North Atlantic. through the voyage, Modo uncovers an excellent secret.
 
The darkish Deeps, the second one publication in Arthur Slade’s Hunchback Assignments sequence, is decided in a desirable steampunk Victorian international. Modo’s underwater adventures and his encounters with the younger French secret agent Colette Brunet, the fearless Captain Monturiol, and the feared Clockwork Guild warrantly a gripping learn packed with possibility, suspense, and remarkable innovations.

By Mats Strandberg, Sara B. Elfgren

ISBN-10: 9129684099

ISBN-13: 9789129684094

De utvalda ska börja andra året på gymnasiet. Hela sommarlovet har de hållit andan i väntan på demonernas nästa drag. males hotet kommer från ett håll de aldrig kunnat förutse.

Det blir alltmer uppenbart att något är väldigt, väldigt fel i Engelsfors. Det förflutna vävs ihop med nuet. De levande möter de döda. De utvalda knyts allt tätare until varandra och påminns återigen om att magi inte kan lindra olycklig kärlek eller laga krossade hjärtan.

Eld är andra delen i Engelsforstrilogin.

Den första boken, Cirkeln, blev en stor succé bland både kritiker och läsare i Sverige. Boken gick som första ungdomsbok någonsin in på DN:s kritikerlista.

"Jag blev fullständigt fucking knockad." Jonas Thente, Dagens Nyheter

Cirkeln nominerades until Augustpriset med motiveringen: "Över det nedmonterade brukssamhällets helvetesgap för tonårshäxorna en motvillig kamp mot ondskan. Med hatkärlek until bysamhället, lojalitet med huvudpersonerna och stor lust för genren skapar författarna en egen mytologi ur ett myller av referenser."

Trilogin är såld until ett tjugotal länder.

By Julie Mayhew

ISBN-10: 1471400352

ISBN-13: 9781471400353

Occasionally lies are more secure than the truth...

25% Emotional, 25% darkish, 25% Witty, 25% ceremony of Passage

When her mom is knocked down and killed by way of a London bus, fifteen-year-old Melon Fouraki is left with out kinfolk worthy declaring. Her mom, Maria, by no means did introduce Melon to a 'living, breathing' father. The indomitable Auntie Aphrodite, in the meantime, is hundreds and hundreds of miles away on a farm in Crete, and is not going to be leaping on a aircraft and coming to East Finchley every time quickly. yet at the very least Melon has 'The Story'. 'The Story' is the Fourakis relations fairytale. a narrative is anything. crimson INK is a strong coming-of-age story approximately superstition, denial and relatives delusion.

By F. Paul Wilson

ISBN-10: 0765330148

ISBN-13: 9780765330147

The 1st of 3 Repairman Jack prequels, revealing the earlier of 1 of the most well-liked characters in modern darkish myth: a self-styled “fix-it” guy who's no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, employed through victimized those that haven't any one else to show to.

We sign up for Jack a number of months after his arrival in manhattan urban. He doesn’t personal a gun but, notwithstanding he’s already hooked up with Abe. quickly he’ll meet Julio and the Mikulski brothers. He runs afoul of a few Dominicans, lands up on the East facet Marriott the evening Meir Kahane is shot, will get at the undesirable aspect of a few Arabs, starts off a scorching affair, and disrupts the smuggling of preteen intercourse slaves. And that’s simply ebook One.

By Eoin Colfer

ISBN-10: 0141339144

ISBN-13: 9780141339146

Ten millennia in the past, the fairy humans have been defeated in an outstanding conflict with mankind, forcing them to maneuver underground. merely the 8th family members of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. yet now one demon has stumbled on the secrets and techniques of the fairy international, and if people pay money for this knowledge the fairies are in substantial difficulty. just one individual can hinder this catastrophe - teenage felony mastermind Artemis chook. motion packed and whole of humour - it is a must-read for girls and boys elderly 10+.