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When her teacher assigns a new team project for Earth Day, Ellie can't wait to pair up with her best friend Hannah. After all, as a superhero, it's Ellie's job to save stuff-including the planet! When the project becomes more than her super-skills can handle, Ellie uses one of her parents' super inventions to create a copy of herself. But when Ellie #2 threatens to take over the project, it's up to the real Ellie to bring the project back down to...

As the first painful waves of grief take root in green-fingered Frances' life without her famed husband Jack, seasons continue. Birth, growth, death and never-ending flux sometimes drag her, sometimes flow her through seasons of surprise as she navigates widowhood, romance and new grandmothering. In a life layered with her relationships, her inner world and the calm pond, Frances charts the cycles of change. As sure as her flowering and dying...

A boy and his stuffed animals start a journey around their apartment. They find out that the apartment is a kingdom that has mountains, rivers, and cities, that everything in it has its purpose, and that the most important place in it is near the parent bedroom. They will also learn what a real geographer needs to leave the house, and finally, after looking into the laws of geography, our characters will venture to explore the world around them. Do...

Caterpillar's adventure begins when he pops from a tiny egg. With the help of some friends, his adventure continues until ... His friends can't find him. What happened to Caterpillar?

As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country's farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. As the novel opens, a mysterious stranger offers a...

A boy. A wish. A secret desire gone horribly wrong. Timothy Sperling misses his mom and dad terribly. Left behind with his morose uncle while they're off on an expedition to avert an environmental disaster, the bird-boned boy would give anything to see them again. But when he spies a shooting star, instead of wishing to be reunited with his parents, he falters and asks for snow... only to conjure up a blizzard that won't quit! As a town that never...

Gatien est un petit renard qui vit dans une toute petite forêt. Il y est heureux et est ami avec chacun des membres de ce lieu magique et beau. Un jour, il émet le souhait de quitter la forêt afin d'aller à la recherche de sa famille. C'est ainsi que dans cette quête personnelle, il fait la rencontre de nouveaux amis. Entre écologie, équilibre de la vie, pardon et respect de la vie sur terre, Les aventures de Gatien, le petit renard est un...

What if the one person you are trying to forget was your heart's deepest desire? Becca Tanner is determined to make her dude ranch inn nestled in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains open on time and be a success. Nowhere in her business plan did she pencil in time for arms dealers and drug runners, manipulating fathers, or sparring matches with her one-sided, decade-long crush, Officer Jason Chasseur. She invested everything she had...

Perfect for fans of the Percy Jackson and Seven Wonders series, The Rogue World is the third book in an epic, fast-paced middle grade adventure trilogy by acclaimed author Matthew J. Kirby. After the shattering new discoveries they made in Egypt, Eleanor and her mother, Samantha, have been separated: Samantha working with the sinister Dr. Watkins to ensure the survival of only a small number of humans, and Eleanor and her friends uniting in the desperate...

Madeline, jeune fille de 17 ans, est servante au manoir du Leff en Bretagne. Pour échapper à sa pauvre condition, elle passe son temps libre le long de l'estuaire du Goyen. Elle y découvre chaque jour une raison de s'émerveiller devant la vie sauvage. Les oiseaux, les rapaces en particulier, retiennent son attention. En effet, elle nourrit l'espoir de les approcher et d'épier les fauconniers afin d'apprendre leurs secrets. En dépit des normes...