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11 birthdays
Par Wendy Mass. 2009
Born on the same day, Leo and Amanda have shared nine birthday parties. But on their tenth, Amanda's feelings are…
hurt and she doesn't speak to Leo for a year. When their separate eleventh birthdays keep repeating, Leo and Amanda need to reconcile to get unstuck. For grades 4-7. 2009Hard Time
Par Julian F. Thompson. 2003
"When we're born, we're sentenced to, like, life. And some of us--I'd be a prime example--are made to do hard…
time." So says Annie Ireland, sentenced to a life of trying to live up to her parents' never-ending expectations. For a long time the only person she can count on for unconditional support is her best friend, Arby, known to the horror and delight of many as "The Roach Boy." And then Pantagruel Primo, Esquire, comes into Annie's life, and just like that, she has another friend, this one ageless and with special powers--and not looking like himself (at all), at first. Suddenly, as a result of a story she writes for English class, Annie and her friends find themselves sentenced to five days in the county jail and then to an indefinite stay at the Back to Basics Center, a wilderness school for "problem" kids. After a series of comic misadventures they manage to escape its bizarre, unpleasant clutches, and Annie comes to realize she's unique and strong and lovable, and that it doesn't matter what some other people think. Delightfully ridiculous (but also timely), part fantasy and part real life, Hard Time is a humorous, sophisticated tale about one girl's struggle to be who she is rather than the person some adults keep wanting her to become.Cretaceous Dawn
Par Michael S. Graziano, Lisa M. Graziano. 2008
"...An adventure-filled journey... In spite of its references to hard academic science, Cretaceous Dawn is a first-class adventure story, an…
effortless read as engaging as vintage Jules Verne. The descriptive prose is both evocative and illuminating, and the plot has enough twists and cliffhangers to keep readers traveling on to the inevitable conclusion."--Natural History "The Grazianos, sibling scientists, combine speculation and science in a compulsively page-turning time-travel adventure. A physics experiment gone awry sends four people and a dog 65 million years into the past. Day-to-day survival among creatures like giant croc Deinosuchus and T. rex becomes a priority, even as the group of stranded scientists realizes that getting home involves a 1,000 mile trek across the amazing landscape of Hell Creek. Details about plants, animals and insects in the distant past set the stage for a tight, scientifically plausible plot with a wholly unexpected twist that will keep readers guessing."--Publishers Weekly A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled 65 million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs, and paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have only one chance for rescue. Meanwhile in the lab, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of why half a body remains where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong but can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people--and do they want to? "A rip-snorting good yarn. . . . Cretaceous Dawn's strength is its ability to transport the reader back in time to truly experience the Cretaceous."--Dinosaur News "Rendered with a clarity and vividness that gives the novel its richness, Cretaceous Dawn is plain fun, and educational at that. Short of time travel, this is as close as you'll ever get to the grim, predatory world of the Cretaceous."--Falmouth Enterprise "From the Inland Sea to the infant Rocky Mountains, we see the entirety of a long-gone ecosystem. The authors' scientific knowledge gives the story, and the giant creatures it is centered around, a realism that is immensely entertaining."--Prehistoric Times "[The era is] described so vividly the reader forgets that no human overlapped with a dinosaur in the sands of time."--The Cape Cod Chronicle Lisa M. Graziano, PhD, is a freelance editor and writer living on Cape Cod, Mass. She spent ten years as a professor of oceanography in Woods Hole, Mass. before turning to a full-time writing career. Michael S. A. Graziano, PhD, is a neuroscientist at Princeton University. He is the author of both fiction and nonfiction.Perduts sense wifi (Sèrie Juràssic Total #Volumen 1)
Par Sara Cano, Francesc Gascó. 2018
Vine a formar part de «Juràssic Total», la nova sèrie de ciència ficció i aventures, i prepara't per embarcar-te en…
un viatje al·lucinant a l'era dels dinosaures. Un grup d'amics ha trobat un portal que els permet viatjar a un lloc on no es van extingir els dinosaures. Junts hauran de fer front a un munt de perills, coneixeran de prop els secrets dels dinosaures i viuran grans aventures. En Leo, la Carla, en Dani, l'Elena i en Lucas estaven convençuts que passarien la tarda castigats en un laboratori ple de fòssils. Però els esperava l'aventura més boja de la vida: un viatge en un lloc... on els dinosaures estan vius! Un cop allà han de trobar la manera de tornar al seu món. I de rescatar una persona perduda en aquella terra misteriosa. Però troben unes dents mágiques que els donen uns poders al·lucinants! Encara que, primer de tot, l'equip necessita un nom. Què us sembla...JURÀSSIC TOTAL?The Natural Way of Things: 'The Handmaid's Tale for our age' (Economist)
Par Charlotte Wood. 2015
'Savage: think Atwood in the outback' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train'An unforgettable reading experience' Liane Moriarty,…
author of Big Little Lies'Ferocious... recalls the early Elena Ferrante' NPR'A masterpiece' Guardian'Devastating' EconomistShe hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says, 'I need to know where I am.'The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still on the doorknob, surprised.He says, almost in sympathy, 'Oh, sweetie. You need to know what you are.'"Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a brokendownproperty in the middle of a desert.Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be therewith eight other girls, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious jailers.Doing hard labour under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: ineach girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man.They pray for rescue but as the hours turn into days and the days into weeks and months,it becomes clear only the girls can rescue themselves. Winner, 2016 Stella PrizeWinner, 2016 Indie Book of the Year AwardWinner, Fiction Book of the Year, 2016 Indie Book AwardWinner, 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for FictionWinner, Reader's Choice, 2016 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted, 2016 Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted, 2016 ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice AwardLonglisted, 2017 International Dublin Literary AwardPerdidos sin wifi (Serie Jurásico Total #Volumen 1)
Par Sara Cano, Francesc Gascó. 2018
Ven a formar parte de «Jurásico Total», la nueva serie de ciencia ficción y aventuras, y prepárate para embarcarte en…
un viaje alucinante a la era de los dinosaurios. Un grupo de amigos ha encontrado un portal que les permite viajar a un lugar en el que no se extinguieron los dinosaurios. Juntos tendrán que hacer frente a un montón de peligros, conocerán de cerca los secretos de los dinosaurios y vivirán grandes aventuras. Leo, Carla, Dani, Elena y Lucas creían que se iban a pasar la tarde castigados en un laboratorio lleno de fósiles. Pero les esperaba la aventura más loca de sus vidas: un viaje a un lugar... ¡donde los dinosaurios siguen vivos! Ahora tienen que averiguar cómo volver a su mundo. Y rescatar a alguien perdido en esa tierra misteriosa. ¡Pero unos dientes mágicos les han dado unos poderes alucinantes! Aunque, antes de nada, todo equipo necesita un nombre. ¿Qué tal os suena...JURÁSICO TOTAL?