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Iris Cloudsaway and the Tower of Dreams
Twelve-year-old Iris Cloudaway just found out that she can turn babysitters into piglets. Since her eccentric grandmother started talking again – from a photo on the wall – strange things have been happening. There’s something mysterious about her apartment building. Starting with the identical apartment building opposite the street, where Timo lives. They are not supposed to be friends, because…
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The Night of the Malombre
March 2, 1944. A freight train packed with desperate passengers departs Naples in the dead of night, heading for the Lucanian countryside, where food might still be found. On board are hundreds of civilians: smugglers, mothers, soldiers, children, and three teens who don’t know each other — yet. Brando, a boy forced to grow up too soon, climbs aboard to find…
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The You
Blu lives in a town on the shores of an Alpine lake. Nothing special ever happens there. Until one summer day, everything changes. A fisherman dies under mysterious circumstances. A woman hears her dead husband’s voice. Blu hears what sounds like her cousin’s voice, but it can’t be… he lives miles away and Blu’s phone is off… That’s how Blu meets Luka,…
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The Berlin Offside
Berlin, summer 1961. Every afternoon, in a small square in Berlin, eight kids gather to play their completely unofficial, and thus monumentally important, football tournament. Leo and his team are about to face their most important challenge: the final match that will decide who controls the square where all the Berlin boys, both from East and from West, usually play football. But…
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Hoopdriver
Billy Hoopdriver is thirteen years old and tired of being invisible. He lives with his father in a grey council house in Liverpool—just the two of them, locked in silence. His dad used to sell bikes, then worked as a delivery driver, but now he’s out of a job and barely speaks. Billy’s only real connection is with his grandfather,…
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Burn This Book. The kids who saved Dr Zhivago
Would you risk your life for a book? Three teenagers. three historical eras. One secret that could change history forever. Is it worth risking your life for a book? Boris Pasternak would say yes, that ideas are not born to be hidden or suffocated. And so would his publisher, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who managed to publish Dr Zhivago, while avoiding censorship.…
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The Cruel Sister
Agatha is 11 years old, lives in a grand but slightly crumbling English country house, and is certain of two things: she will be an explorer one day… and there is something very wrong with the new maid. It’s the early 1900s, and Agatha’s days are filled with books about Egypt, ancient tombs and strange diseases. Her father is always experimenting,…
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Syberia
Janis, a young Polish dissident, was sentenced to a Siberian labor camp after a failed student protest — which led to his arrest and the death of his father. Now, after two years, a mysterious cosmic explosion shatters the sky: the real-life Tunguska Event of 1908. In the chaos, Janis escapes into the vast, frozen taiga. Battling hunger, cold, wild animals,…
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The Phenomenal P.T. Heliodore
P.T. Heliodore is ten years old when he hears an animal speak for the first time. What begins as a surreal experience soon turns into something extraordinary: owls, beetles, a water snake, a blue cow on its way to New York, and a dog named Pinky all have something to say to him. P.T. has an imagination as big as the…
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A Hundred Steps to Freedom
A gripping adventure blending suspense and emotional depth. “Breathing heavily, he turned towards the cliff. At that precise moment an eagle’s shriek filled the sky. The air near him shifted, the silhouette of the raptor darted in front of him. It seemed to incite him. ‘Come on, grab my legs. Fly away with me’.” Blind since childhood, Lucio has always…
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Red Stars
Leningrad, 1941. Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler’s Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. All the children in the city are loaded onto special trains that take them to safety from the enemy advance, but due to a mistake Viktor and Nadya end up on different trains and lose track of each other. While Nadya…
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Cassandra Apollinaire’s Prodigious Soul-Capturing Machine
Three siblings, a race against time among the streets of Paris, coded messages, ancient daguerreotypes, centuries-old secret circles and a disturbing mystery: can photographic film preserve a soul? France, 1971. It’s the 13th of October when a postman rings the Sélavy family’s door, causing all hell to break loose: the delivery is for Louis, René’s twin, who died in an…
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The Last Hunter
I am the last hunter and you are the last of your kind. The noise of our fight will make the stars fall from the sky. Florida, 10,000 years ago. The tribe has gone far South in search of the last mastodons, creatures that are very precious for their survival but which are disappearing perhaps due to the violence of…
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Maydala Express
An unforgettable journey towards the last, unknown destination Finally, ten years old and red-haired, lives in Grey City’s immense railway station and works for a company that controls all the trains around the world, obeying wicked Mr Mortimer’s orders. Every day she dreams of escaping… One day she finds a piece of crumpled paper in her pocket, with strange lettering…
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Evil Queen
Caterina sees her mother as a Queen, sometimes evil, sometimes good; the doorman is ogre Latronio and the city is populated by dragons, witches and knights. Drawing his sword, Belcillotto protects her from danger. Then Belcillotto turns back into Francesco and asks Caterina’s mother if she can go play with him. “Come” Caterina says as they walk towards the park. “I will show you my kingdom”.…
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My Unexpected Life
Frances has a Mum-Forever #1, Mirella, whom she has not seen for years. And now, after her grandparents suddenly died, Frances is going to have a Mum-Forever #2, as she is going to live with her new foster family: Erica and Daniel Borisnietzov, costume designer and famous dancer respectively, with their three children. The three kids, plus Frances and also…
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The Thread of Hope
Vita, an elderly Sicilian woman, is confined to her home, where she is reflecting on the past and putting her emotions in order, and she decides to leave a testimony to her granddaughter Nina. Through her memories, she tells the story of her youth, the times when she embroidered and fought against exploitation. Inspired by a true story, the novel recounts the great mobilisation of…
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The Jump
Jumping into a pool might seem easy peasy but it can become terrifying as soon as you face it from the pool-board edge perspective… Time stops when you are about to dive. Will our hero be bold enough to jump? From an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator, an exhilarating picture book about that moment when you are too afraid to dive!…
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Little Sailing Manual
If it’s the first time you go by sea, you should be guided by an experienced sailor. Someone like Aldo, who knows that the first thing to do when sailing is to set a destination. A destination that can be reached with unexpected events and ingenuity, through difficulties and cooperation. Aldo says you will always get somewhere. A sea story…
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Angels, Lizards, Children Everywhere
Angels, lizards, children everywhere! Children were seen running like lizards on the walls of the houses, up to the fourth floor. Lizards were seen rising on their hind legs and shouting tremendous threats with powerful voices, in perfect English. Old teacher Rosa Quercia was seen laughing from the window, and throwing pans. Midget Angels were seen swarming into one of…
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