A rollicking magical adventure story as King Midas sets out to find a cure for his magic touch so that he can turn his daughter back from gold.

 Witches, dragons, wizards and a host of amazing characters feature in this spell-binding tale from a supreme storyteller.

The Adventures of King Midas

Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for a school assignment, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother and the rest of her sometimes confusing life.

 Alice doesn't see how she can write her life story as a class assignment.. How can she fit nine years into a couple of pages? Her pets have died and the only family she has is her mother. Until recently she had a beloved interfering grandmother - Gene - but she's gone from Alice's life. Besides, Alice discovered ages ago she was born by accident, and that's the sort of private thing you don't write about for school. Alice does the assignment but she thinks it's boring, until she discovers a need to write about her true life - the exciting, complicated and private of her life. She writes how Gene came along, how she changed Alice's life, making it richer in experience but also more complicated. She records ongoing quarrels between Gene and her mother which ended with the Big Row and now she can't see Gene any more.

 Lynne Reid Banks has written a truly compelling story of a creative child caught in the middle of a difficult but very real and increasingly common situation.

Alice By Accident

Tiy, reine d'Egyte, se rendait au bord du Nil pour se baigner quand elle trouva l'enfant dans une corbeille. Elle l'adopta, l'appela Moïse, ce qui signifie : " Sauvé des eaux ", et l'éleva comme son propre fils. Il échappait ainsi au décret royal qui vouait à la mort tout enfant mâle hébreu. Sauvé ! Mais pourquoi Moïse l'apprend plus tard lorsque, découvrant la vérité sur ses origines, il fuit dans le désert. Dieu lui apparaît alors : " Tu iras trouver Pharaon, et tu lui diras : laisse partir mon peuple. " Que peut faire un homme seul contre le puissant Pharaon ? Et comment un prince d'Egypte pourrait-il inspirer suffisamment confiance aux Hébreux et les libérer de leur esclavage. Inspiré du Livre de l'Exode et du film Le Prince d'Egypte, ce roman retrace l'épopée du peuple hébreu en captivité et de son guide spirituel, Moïse.

Moïse en Egypte: un roman inspiré du film le prince d'Egypte et du livre de l'Exode

Il y a un an qu'Omri a refermé le placard magique, donné la clé à sa mère et rangé Petit Taureau, Étoile Double et Tommy dans leurs boîtes. Il y a un an que l'histoire de l'Indien du placard est terminée.  Mais quand Omri reçoit une lettre l'informant qu'il a gagné 300 livres, le premier prix du concours de création littéraire des Telecom, pour ses "extraordinaires qualités d'imagination et d'invention", il pressent que tout va recommencer. Parce que le héros du récit brillant, c'est Petit Taureau. Le sujet si original qui récolte tant de compliments, c'est sa métamorphose et ses aventures. Sa vraie histoire. Alors si quelqu'un doit partager la bonne nouvelle, c'est Petit Taureau en perspnne. Mais pour cela, il faut le remettre dans le placard. À ses risques et périls. La suite, attendue par des millions de lecteurs et de spectateurs, de L'Indien du placard, adapté au cinéma en 1995. Illustration de couverture: Shelmih Hiaghé.

Le retour de l'Indien

From Dakin's bedroom window, the farthest-away mountain looks quite close, its peak capped with pink and purple and green snow rising above the pine wood just beyond the village.

 No one knows why the snow isn't white, because no one has ever been there; for though the mountain looks close, however far you travel it never gets any closer.

 Until one morning, Dakin is woken by a voice calling, summoning her through the wicked wood and over the sea of spikes, to fight the evil on the mountain and set it free.

The Farthest Away Mountain

Another deliciously squirmy story about Harry the Poisonous Centipede, with all of Lynne Reid Banks's usual charm and humour. Tony Ross's wonderful illustrations perfectly capture the small world of Harry.

 'Suddenly the most awful thing happened. Something tightened around Harry's middle! He almost jumped into the air with fright.'

 When Harry the poisonous centipede's best friend, George, goes missing, Harry goes to find him. But dangerous things lurk outside his nest-tunnel, like flying swoopers, belly crawlers, furry biters and - most terrifying of all - Hoo-Mins!

Harry the Poisonous Centipede’s Big Adventure

A delightfully squirmy story starring Harry the Poisonous Centipede in a scary world of flying swoopers, furry biters and the dreaded Hoo-Mins! With wonderful humour and brilliant illustrations, this is the perfect book for wriggly young readers.

 "It's a Hoo-Min!" crackled George. "Walking on its hairy-biter feet!"But now it was Harry who felt brave. "Come on! Let's peep at it!"They crawled the rest of the way up the tunnel towards the light.

 Harry is a poisonous centipede but he's not very brave. Still, he is the star of this seriously squirmy story. Harry likes to eat things that wriggle and crackle, and things that are juicy and munchy! But there are some things that a poisonous centipede must never try to eat - dangerous things like flying swoopers, belly wrigglers, furry biters and the most dangerous of all. Hoo-Mins!

 Harry and George's adventures up to the world of Hoo-Mins sparkle with fun and will be a delightfully squirmy experience for all young readers.

Harry the Poisonous Centipede - A story to make you squirm

Pour son anniversaire, Omri a reçu trois cadeaux. Ses parents et son frère aîné lui ont offert un skateboard avec un casque, son ami Patrick lui a offert un vieux Peau-Rouge en plastique dont il souhaitait probablement se débarrasser, et son autre frère, Gillon, qui avait été privé d'argent de poche, lui a donné un placard qu'il a trouvé près des poubelles. Contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait croire, ce dernier cadeau plaît beaucoup à Omri, notamment parce que c'est un placard qu'il peut fermer à clé.  Il commence par y ranger l'Indien en plastique. Mais... le placard aurait-il des pouvoirs magiques? Voilà que l'Indien s'anime. Il est vivant, aucun doute. Il se montre tout de suite très courageux, très susceptible et complique énormément la vie d'Omri, Maintenant adapté au cinéma, le best-seller de Lynne Reid Banks est devenu un film de la Columbia, par les producteuts de Qui veut la peau de Roger Rabbit? et des Aventuriers de l'Arche perdue écrit par la scénariste de <>E.T. et réalisé par Frank Oz. Illustration de la couverture: d'après l'affiche du film L'Indien du placard, c Columbia, Tristar Films.

L'Indien Du Placard

Houdini is no ordinary hamster. He is an escapologist with an exceptional talent for getting out of cages and urge to escape leads him to all kinds of adventures.Published into the First Modern Classics list, fantastic stories for young readers.

 He may look like a small, furry pet, but really he is a Wild Creature - a freedom-loving hamster with a life-long passion for escape and a yearning for the Great Outside, leaving chaos and destruction as he goes.

 He tells his hilarious adventures with great intelligence and no modesty - for the world beyond carpets and floorboards can be a terrifying place.

I, Houdini

A compelling and touching coming-of-age story set in the magnificent Australian outback.

 All my helpless, angry thoughts suddenly came together to form one word. One answer. Australia. On the other side of the world. An escape from everything.

 Stacey's life's not great. Her dad's run off, she and her mum live alone in a poky flat, school's one big bore and her friends are all bad news. Then, out of the blue, a glamorous gran she's never met comes to visit - all the way from Australia. When Stacey gets the worst news yet, Grandma Glendine has the perfect solution.

 Suddenly, Stacey's life in grey old London is swapped for the heat, dust, flies, and even scorpions and snakes, of the outback. Will all this (plus - yuck! - an outside toilet) prove too much for Stacey the city-girl? And is her flashy, rich gran quite who she seems.?

 An accessible, beautifully researched novel, written by an author who always tells a cracking good story.

Stealing Stacey

A medieval tragedy and tale of retribution - The Dungeon is a powerful story from a writer of great skill and potency.

 The setting is medieval Scotland, a land dominated by skirmishes and battles on the borders, a land of fortresses and castles in Scotland, England and Wales. We meet Bruce McLennan, a Scottish laird, a man sorely-changed by a terrible family tragedy. He is a domineering master, an uncaring landlord, a cruel man, who has his heart set on building himself a castle and a Dungeon in which to punish his enemies in the future. But while the dungeon is being built, McLennan plans a trip to the far ends of the earth.

 As we follow McLennan on his travels to China and beyond, we witness his buying of Peony, or Mudan, as her Chinese name is, a young girl who McLennan uses as a slave. He is uncaring, unsympathetic, as he drags her after him across the world. Gradually, knowing no other, Peony develops a kind of affection for her master.

 In Scotland, Peony meets Fin, a stable lad and a loving friendship develops between them. McLennan, busy fighting off enemies, uses Peony in an horrific scene in one of his battles; he looses badly and subsequently blames her. He decides to punish her by throwing her in his dungeon. then unfolds a ghastly scene where Peony kills herself, at last in control of her own destiny. McLennan dies of guilt, shame and remorse. Fin lives on, and even Peony, perhaps, in his new baby sister.

The Dungeon

Harry the Poisonous Centipede is now quite brave, but nothing can prepare him for this next adventure! He and best friend George are lost in a new and even scarier no-top world. Far from home, across the no-end puddle, they must negotiate a strange treeless cold desert, a Nest of Hoo-Mins, lots of noise-hurt and terrifying hairy-yowlers!

 Harry woke up first. The straight-up-hard thing was jiggling. It was moving."What's happening?" asked George in alarm."I don't know. We're moving." Harry replied."Where are we? We're not where we were last night!" crackled George."I told you! This is a can't -get-out!"

 Harry and George face the toughest adventure yet when they are shipped West in a crate of bananas. Far across the no-end puddle, miles away from home, they must find a way to survive the bitter cold and hide from the hundreds of Hoo-Mins do-diddling around them. They run away as fast as they can, but inadvertently squirm into a Hoo-Min Nest and come face to face with a hairy-yowler!

 All Harry wants is to go home to his mother, and tell her how much he warm-hearts her before her time comes to "stop". But before they can even start the perilous journey home, they must escape the Nest and go out into the no-top world. Yet this particular Hoo-Min is fascinated by insects, and wants nothing more than to add some poisonous centipedes to his collection.

Harry the Poisonous Centipede Goes To Sea

The fifth title in this gripping series about Omri and his plastic North American Indian - Little Bull - who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboard

 Omri and his father travel back in time to find Little Bull and his people in deep trouble, torn between staying in the West and facing extinction or starting a long trek to a new life in Canada. Omri's final parting with Little Bull is incredibly moving yet the book is also very funny.

 We meet other favourite characters as well as some new ones and there are wonderful descriptive passages about Little Bull's longhouse and the Iroquois lifestyle. Even though this seems like the end of the story, Lynne does have ideas for a sequel.

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