Maximilian Funk is the new kid in school, and not much of a baseball fan, a deadly combination. He has to figure out a way to impress Molly Kinsman, the best pitcher in the city and the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. One little lie couldn't hurt, could it?This short story from the collection Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a winner.

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Il était une fois... Hazel et Jack aiment rêver et passent leur temps à réinventer le monde. Quand la réalité les ennuie ou leur paraît trop rude, ils se réfugient dans les jeux et les histoires qu’ils inventent, bien plus belles et amusantes que le monde des adultes qu’ils trouvent si triste ! Mais un jour, Jack devient agressif sans raison apparente, puis disparaît brusquement. On explique à Hazel qu'il est parti vivre chez sa tante, mais la fillette n'y croit pas. Pour le retrouver et sauver leur amitié, elle entreprend alors un long et périlleux voyage. La voici seule dans une étrange forêt peuplée de créatures fantastiques, à la recherche du palais de glace de la Reine des neiges qui, selon elle, a enlevé Jack…

La Forêt des coeurs glacés

From the acclaimed author of The Real Boy and The Lost Girl comes a wondrous and provocative fantasy about a kingdom beset by monsters, a mysterious school, and a girl caught in between them. If no one notices Marya Lupu, is likely because of her brother, Luka. And that's because of what everyone knows: that Luka is destined to become a sorcerer. The Lupus might be from a small village far from the capital city of Illyria, but that doesn't matter. Every young boy born in in the kingdom holds the potential for the rare ability to wield magic, to protect the country from the terrifying force known only as the Dread. For all the hopes the family has for Luka, no one has any for Marya, who can never seem to do anything right. But even so, no one is prepared for the day that the sorcerers finally arrive to test Luka for magical ability, and Marya makes a terrible mistake. Nor the day after, when the Lupus receive a letter from a place called Dragomir Academy-a mysterious school for wayward young girls. Girls like Marya. Soon she is a hundred miles from home, in a strange and unfamiliar place, surrounded by girls she's never met. Dragomir Academy promises Marya and her classmates a chance to make something of themselves in service to one of the country's powerful sorcerers. But as they learn how to fit into a world with no place for them, they begin to discover things about the magic the men of their country wield, as well as the Dread itself-things that threaten the precarious balance upon which Illyria is built.

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

Three starred reviewsA Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2019Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award nominee The Real Boy, returns with a story of the power of fantasy, the limits of love, and the struggles inherent in growing up. When you're an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant-and from their first moments in the world together, they've never left each other's side. Everyone around them realized early on what the two sisters already knew: they had better outcomes when they were together. When fifth grade arrives, however, it's decided that Iris and Lark should be split into different classrooms, and something breaks in them both. Iris is no longer so confident; Lark retreats into herself as she deals with challenges at school. And at the same time, something strange is happening in the city around them, things both great and small going missing without a trace. As Iris begins to understand that anything can be lost in the blink of an eye, she decides it's up to her to find a way to keep her sister safe.

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