Everyone knows that orphanages are horrible places. But Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone else at St Morwald's Home for Children, and loves it there. So the last thing she wants is to be sent to live with the very strange Bella Yaga.

 Earwig was left at St Morwald's as a baby. Unlike the other children, she loves it there, mostly because she has the run of the place and seems to be able to persuade people to do as she wants. Then one day Earwig is chosen to live with a very strange couple: Bella Yaga, her new 'mother', is actually a horrible witch. Earwig will need all her ingenuity (and some help from a talking cat) to survive.

EARWIG AND THE WITCH

La suite tant attendue du Château de Hurle vous emmène cette fois au sud d'Ingarie, dans les mondes imaginaires des Mille et une nuits !

Loin du pays d'Ingarie, dans le sultanat du Rajpout, un jeune marchand se plaît à rêver à une vie différente. Il s'imagine ainsi fils de roi, promis depuis sa naîssance à une belle princesse, bien loin de sa vie miséreuse et de son père ingrat, bien loin de son petit étal de tapis. Lorsqu'un beau jour, un étranger lui vend un tapis volant, la vie d'Abdallah prend un tournant pour le moins inattendu. Les péripéties s'enchaînent et le destin de notre héros semble soudain lié à celui de la superbe princesse Fleur-dans-la-Nuit. 
Pour la retrouver, il part pour une incroyable odyssée, semée de djinns légendaires, de sorciers, de prophéties anciennes... et d'un mystérieux château dans les nuages.

La Trilogie de Hurle Tome 2

His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that he can bring real, solid things back from his dreams. Others begin to recognize the extent of his powers, and they issue an order that turns Christopher's life upside down: Go to Chrestomanci Castle to train to be the controller of all the world's magic. The Lives of Christopher Chant is the adventure-filled story of the boyhood of Chretomanci, the famous magician who also appears in Charmed Life, Witch Week, and The Magicians of Caprona.

The Lives of Christopher Chant

Tonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells, but he has other gifts. His ability to communicate with cats just might help defend the city of Caprona against a mysterious enchanter -- but only if Tonino can learn to cooperate with a girl from the hated Petrocchi family of spell-makers.

Les Magiciens de Caprona  (Chrestomanci #4)

There are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, "Someone in this class is a witch, " the students in 6B are nervous-especially the boy who's just discovered that he can cast spells and the girl who was named after the most famous witch of all. Witch Week features the debonair enchanter Chrestomanci, who also appears in Charmed Life, The Magicians of Caprona, and The Lives of Christopber Chant. Someone in the class is a witch. At least so the anonymous note says. Everyone is only too eager to prove it is someone else-because in this society, witches are burned at the stake.

Witch Week

Rien ne va plus. Alors que les touristes débarquent par vagues entières dans le monde de Derk, les Pèlerinages se voient un à un ruinés par d'étranges phénomènes. Au coeur des machinations, mensonges et trahisons, la famille du Seigneur des ténèbres a du plomb dans l'aile. Dans l'oeil du cyclone, elle devra se débattre et faire preuve de courage et d'abnégation pour jouer son rôle et survivre au sein du chaos. Il est temps pour griffons et humains, sorciers et voleurs de faire face aux terribles Pèlerins et de se libérer tant bien que mal de l'emprise de M. Chesney, l'abominable homme d'affaires. La conclusion renversante de leur épopée est sur le point de commencer !

Le Terrible Seigneur des ténèbres Tome 2

Welcome to the worlds of Chrestomanci, where magic is as common as mathematics and anything can happen. an exclusive ebook collection of the entire seven book series by the award-winning Diana Wynne Jones.

 Welcome to the worlds of Chrestomanci, where magic is as common as mathematics and anything can happen. an exclusive ebook collection of the entire seven book series by the award-winning Diana Wynne Jones.

 Featuring the magical and enduring characters of Gwendolen and Christopher Chant, and many more, this collection brings the stories of the world of Chrestomanci together for the first time.

 Winner of numerous accolades including the Guardian Award, these stories have been loved by generations of children's and adults and Diana Wynne Jones was hailed by Neil Gaiman as 'the best writer of magic there is.'

The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection Books 1-7

The long-awaited, completely new story, first published by HarperCollins in Mixed Magics (2000), is now available as a short story in its own right at a special World Book Day price.

 Cat Chant has nine lives and is destined to be the next Chrestomanci. He is not best pleased when young Tonino Montana, a magically-gifted Italian, is invited to live at Chrestomanci Castle. What is so special about Tonino's powers?

 When Cat and Tonino return to Chrestomanci Castle after visiting Gabriel de Wit, Cat is forced to put aside his animosity towards Tonino when they are abducted by a particularly evil enchanter, Master Spiderman. Master Spiderman is a 'collector' and it will take all the magic power Cat and Tonino can muster to overcome his plan to become the most powerful enchanter in the world.

 Related titles: Cat Chant first appears in Charmed Life. Antonio (known as Tonino) Montana first appears in The Magicians of Caprona. Christopher Chant, Gabriel de Wit, Mordecai Roberts and Miss Rosalie first appear in The Lives of Christopher Chant. Christopher Chant as Chrestomanci also appears in Witch Week and Mixed Magics.

Stealer of Souls

Christopher peut se transporter en rêve dans des mondes parallèles. Lorsqu'il l'apprend, son oncle lui demande de tenter d'étranges expériences et de rapporter de mystérieux paquets. Christopher découvre aussi qu'il appartient à une famille d'enchanteurs et qu'il possède neuf vies. Le voilà prédestiné à succéder au Chrestomanci, le plus puissant magicien du pays chez qui il va désormais habiter. Mais Christopher perd ses vies à une allure étonnante. Ne cherche-t-on pas à profiter de ses pouvoirs?

Les mondes de Chrestomanci Tome 2

His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that he can bring real, solid things back from his dreams. Others begin to recognize the extent of his powers, and they issue an order that turns Christopher's life upside down: Go to Chrestomanci Castle to train to be the controller of all the world's magic.

Les neufs vies du magicien (Chrestomanci, #2)

On the surface, Aunt Maria seems like a cuddly old lady, all chit-chat and lace doilies and unadulterated NICEness!

 When Mig and her family go for a short visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules the place with a rod of sweetness that's tougher than iron and deadlier than poison. Life revolves around tea parties, while the men are all grey-suited zombies who fade into the background, and the other children seem like clones.

 The short visit becomes a long stay, and when all talk of going home ceases, Mig despairs! Things go from bad to worse when Mig's brother Chris tries to rebel, but is changed into a wolf .

 Mig is convinced that Aunt Maria must be a witch - but who will believe her? It's up to Mig to figure out what's going on. Maybe the ghost who haunts the downstairs bedroom holds the key?

Black Maria

The Magicians of Caprona

There is magic in the Weaver’s hands…Accused of witchcraft, Tanaqui the Weaver and her brothers flee their village in a small boat down the great River swelled with floodtide, bearing with them the Undying – powerful statues of their native gods.But at River’s end waits the evil sorcerer Kankredin, whose nets rob men of their souls and whose dark arts have enslaved all of Dalemark.Swiftly they are swept into Kankredin’s clutches not knowing that the power to vanquish him is already in Tanaqui’s deft hands – lying there in the mystic runes she weaves to tell her tale: The Spellcoats.

Les houppelandes magiques (L'Odyssée DaleMark, #3)

Les Oracles ont parlé : c'est le pauvre sorcier Derk qui sera le Seigneur des ténèbres cette année. Alui de transformer sa ferme en château maléfique et de gérer l'arrivée des voyageurs venus d'un mystérieux univers parallèle : le nôtre. Otages du redoutable businessman M. Chesney et de son démon, les habitants d'un monde fantastique sont contraints d'organiser des circuits touristiques de plus en plus complexes et destructeurs, les réduisant en esclavage. Alors que des accidents font dérailler les circuits et qu'une rébellion travaille dans l'ombre, Derk va devoir redoubler d'ingéniosité pour tenir son rôle et sauver sa famille de chair et de plumes de la terrible menace du malfaisant homme d'affaires... Les Oracles ont parlé : c'est le pauvre sorcier Derk qui sera le Seigneur des ténèbres cette année. Alui de transformer sa ferme en château maléfique et de gérer l'arrivée des voyageurs venus d'un mystérieux univers parallèle : le nôtre. Par l'autrice du Château de Hurle et d'Aya et la Sorcière, Diana Wynne JONES !

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