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Thirteen-year-old Maya, in Paris with her family for a year, lands in the middle of the mysterious La Societ�e's quest for immortality when the magical Cabinet of Earths chooses her as its next Keeper, promising to restore her mother's health. Includes historical notes.
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Twelve-year-old Petunia is used to living in the shadow of her fourteen-year-old half-sister, Ava, their mother's favorite, but now that the whole family has moved to Paris for a year, Pet finds herself stepping into the light, making new friends, uncovering secrets, and, inspired by the classic French dolls she has found, revealing an unexpected talent for designing dresses--and her beautiful sister does not take it well.
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Gilded wolves volume 1
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English
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Set in a darkly glamorous world The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence and dangerous but thrilling adventure. Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, S�everin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of...
4) Sarah's key
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English
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"Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation,...
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Dork diaries volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Ooh la la! Nikki Maxwell and her band are on their way to Paris, but they run into some roadblocks on the way… And Nikki’s French skills may not be as reliable as she hoped! Can she get them moving again in time to reach their destination?" -- Amazon.com
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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During the Nazi occupation of Paris, no Jew was safe from arrest and deportation to a concentration camp. Few Parisians were willing to risk their own lives to help. Yet many Jews found refuge in an unlikely place, the sprawling complex of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Not just a place of worship but also a community center, this hive of activity was an ideal temporary hiding place for escaped prisoners of war and Jews of all ages, including children....
7) Grace
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Girl of the year. 2015: Grace volume 1
American girls collection
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
American girls collection
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
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English
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Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas when she goes to Paris with her mother and has trouble getting along with her cousin, while at home her friends start the business she proposed without her.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 7
Magic Tree House/Magic Tree House Merlin Missions volume 35/7
Magic Tree House/Magic Tree House Merlin Missions volume 35/7
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English
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Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.
10) Adelaide
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Harper
Pub. Date
�1959
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English
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Adelaide, the flying kangaroo, leaves her parents to travel the world, ending up in Paris where she creates a happy life for herself.
11) The red balloon
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1956]
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English
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A young boy finds a red balloon with a mind of its own floating across the skies of Paris.
12) P�ere Goriot
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Series
Publisher
Airmont
Pub. Date
�1965
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English
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Classic novel of a father who sacrifices all for his two daughters obsessed with money and social position.
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Diamond brothers mysteries volume 4
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
�2005
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English
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A collection of three Diamond Brothers mysteries in which Tim and Nick bungle their way through a search for a missing philanthropist, find themselves in a Parisian prison, and are stranded on a Scottish island with a murderer.