Small Acts of Amazing Courage
10 best books like Small Acts of Amazing Courage (Gloria Whelan): His Hideous Heart, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The Awakening of Miss Prim, The Night Diary, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, The Great Brain, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, A Month of Sundays, With a Name like Love
| Author | Dahlia Adler |
| ISBN | 1250302773 |
Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction....
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
An ocean voyage of unimaginable consequences... Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however: If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more....
The Awakening of Miss Prim
| Author | Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera |
| ISBN | 1476734240 |
In this #1 international bestseller, a young woman leaves everything behind to work as a librarian in a remote French village, where she finds her outlook on life and love challenged in every way.
When Miss Prim, an independent, accomplished young woman, reads an ad in the newspaper seeking...
| Author | Veera Hiranandani |
| ISBN | 0735228515 |
It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.
Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't...
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.
Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has...
| Author | John D. Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0142400580 |
The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the...
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
| Author | Linda Urban |
| ISBN | 0152060073 |
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the keys under her flying fingers; she can hear the audience's applause. All she needs is a baby grand so she can start her lessons, and then she'll be well on her way to Carnegie Hall.
But when Dad ventures to the music store...
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
| Author | Lindsay Mattick |
| ISBN | 0316324906 |
Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.
In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg,...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0374399123 |
When Garnet's mother decides it's time for a change, she drops off her daughter at her aunt June's house in Black Rock, Virginia, while she goes to Florida to find a job. Garnet has never met her Aunt June, so she feels angry and abandoned. But Aunt June thinks Garnet is there for a reason. Each week, Garnet...
| Author | Tess Hilmo |
| ISBN | 0374384657 |
One of School Library Journal's Best Fiction Books of 2011
When Ollie's daddy, the Reverend Everlasting Love, pulls their travel trailer into Binder to lead a three-day revival, Ollie knows that this town will be like all the others they visit— it is exactly the kind of nothing Ollie has come...
| Author | Nancy R. Pearcey |
| ISBN | 1433669277 |
Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.
Pearcey...
Ta deuxième vie commence quand tu comprends que tu n'en as qu'une
- Vous souffrez probablement d'une forme de routinite aiguë.
- Une quoi ?
- Une routinite aiguë. C'est une affection de l'âme qui touche de plus en plus de gens dans le monde, surtout en Occident. Les symptômes sont presque toujours les mêmes : baisse de motivation, morosité chronique,...
