Mauvais garçon ! On l'a toujours appelé comme ça. Petit, il faisait les quatre cents coups. En grandissant, il a été placé en maison de redressement où on lui mène à son tour la vie dure. M. Alfie, le vieil homme qui s'occupe des écuries, est le seul à croire en lui, et le charge de prendre soin de Dombey, un cheval maltraité et farouche. Chacun va devoir gagner la confiance de l'autre. 

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Mauvais garçon

Londres, 1940... Un jeune garçon et sa mère prennent le train pour se réfugier à la campagne. Tandis que les raids aériens s'intensifient, un inconnu entré dans leur compartiment commence à leur raconter l'histoire de son meilleur ami, Billy. Septembre 1918... Billy et son bataillon livrent leur dernière bataille dans un village du nord de la France. De nombreux soldats allemands sont fait prisonniers. Soudain, l'un d'eux émerge des ruines et Billy ordonne qu'on lui laisse la vie sauve.

Un aigle dans la neige

Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation's favourite storyteller

 A heart-warming novel about Kaspar the Savoy cat, from the award-winning author of Born to Run and The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

 Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bell-boy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky's things to her room.

 But Johnny didn't expect to end up with Kaspar on his hands forever, and nor did he count on making friends with Lizziebeth, a spirited American heiress. Pretty soon, events are set in motion that will take Johnny - and Kaspar - all around the world, surviving theft, shipwreck and rooftop rescues along the way. Because everything changes with a cat like Kaspar around. After all, he's Prince Kaspar Kandinsky, Prince of Cats, a Muscovite, a Londoner and a New Yorker, and as far as anyone knows, the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic.

Kaspar - Prince of Cats

Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation's favourite storyteller

 Joy and heartbreak combine in this bittersweet tale of a champion greyhound's journey through life - and from owner to owner.

 "The sack wasn't just drifting gently along like everything else, it was turning of its own accord. There was definitely something inside it, struggling against the side of the plastic bag, kicking at it, squeaking and squealing in terror. He had no idea what it might be, only that it was alive and in danger of drowning."

 When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he can't bear to hand them all over to the RSPCA. He pleads with his parents: couldn't he just keep one of them? But nothing will convince them and Patrick cries himself to sleep - only to be woken by a greyhound puppy licking his face!

 Patrick christens his puppy Best Mate, and that's what he becomes. Patrick's favourite thing is to watch Best Mate running at full stretch on the heath, a speeding bullet, a cheetah-dog. Until one day Best Mate is kidnapped by a greyhound trainer, and begins a new life as a champion race dog. Suzie, the greyhound trainer's step-daughter, loves Best Mate on first sight and gives him a new name, Bright Eyes. But what will happen when he can't run any more?

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Born to Run

Joey is a warhorse, but he wasn't always. Once, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Then World War I came storming through and everything changed. Albert's father sells Joey to the army where the beautiful, red-bay horse is trained to charge the enemy, drag heavy artillery, and carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert off of battlefields. Amongst the clamoring of guns and slogging through the cold mud, Joey wonders if the war will ever end. And if it does, will he ever find Albert again?

Cheval de guerre

Jo places his life in danger when he helps protect a growing number of Jewish children who have sought refuge at a reclusive widow's farm.

Anya

LE ROI ARTHUR (INACTIF- LECTURE JUNIOR)

Amanda vit en Australie, loin du pays de ses ancêtres : la Grèce, et plus précisément la célèbre île d'Ithaque. Une fois ses études terminées et suite à une rencontre extraordinaire, elle part en quête de ses racines et de l'histoire de sa famille. Elle y découvrira la vie de sa grand-tante Elena pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et jusqu'à aujourd'hui : son aïeule était et demeure une héroïne plus incroyable que tout ce qu'Amanda aurait jamais pu imaginer.

Un été à Ithaque - L'odyssée de Nandi

A classic Christmas story from the author of War Horse and the illustrator of How to Hide a LionAs soon as the bells stop ringing, I'm going to carry you home to your mother, back up to the Mountain Dragon's castle . . .In her castle lair, high in the mountains of Switzerland, lives a terrible dragon. In the village below lives a little girl called Mimi. When Mimi finds a baby dragon in the woodshed, she makes a brave decision that will bring joy and peace to the village forever. This heartwarming holiday adventure for the whole family is the perfect combination of magic, adventure, and Christmas cheer.

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