Titres dans Fiction biographique

Tony, dix ans, rêve de remporter le concours de siffleurs dans lequel s’affrontent les meilleurs imitateurs d’oiseaux de la baie de Somme. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, alors qu’il est devenu Le Rossignol, une star internationale, il se voit contraint de revenir où tout a commencé, sans se douter que ces retrouvailles vont bouleverser sa vie.

Poil de Carotte est un petit garçon roux, dernier d'une famille de trois enfants, issu d'un milieu provincial bourgeois. Il est depuis toujours persécuté par sa mère, entre un père absent et un frère et une sœur indifférents. Poil de Carotte veut comprendre pourquoi sa mère ne l'aime pas, ce qu'il y a derrière cette rousseur qu'elle rejette. Peut-être est-il un enfant adopté ou peut-être n'est-il pas le fils de son père ?

Based on the true life story of Anne Burras, First Lady of Jamestown shares the excitement, sorrow, and grit of 17th Century Jamestown. When tragedy strikes, young Anne is left as the lone woman among hundreds of men in the fledgling Virginia colony, forced to forge a new life for herself despite the confines of her culture and gender. From heartache to love, and from tragic loss to heroic survival in the harshest of conditions, Anne's determination and fortitude through her life's challenges inspires all who learn of her story.

Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic...everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you.

Filled with the zany enthusiasm that has made Lele into Vine's most viewed star, this charming novel is proof that high school is a trip. From crushing your crushes (what's up with that hot transfer student, Alexei?) to throwing Insta-fake parties with your BFFs and moaning over homework (GAH) with your frenemies, high school is a roller coaster of exhilarating highs and totally embarrassing lows.

Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. The Brontë siblings find escape from their constrained lives via their rich imaginations. The glittering world of Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy world of Gondal literally come to life under their pens, offering the sort of romance and intrigue missing from their isolated parsonage home. But at what price?

Based on true events–a companion novella to 47 Days: The True Story of Two Teen Boys Defying Hitler's Reich Solingen, Germany, December 19, 1944: Günter has had it—he is starving. After the bombing of his hometown, even the few food rations, they were getting, are no longer available. On the eve of his sixteenth birthday, he and his friend, Helmut, come across a battalion of returning German soldiers. One offers them his downtrodden military horse, if they can trade civilian clothes. Günter immediately agrees, even if he doesn’t quite know where to find something suitable.

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2021! Der einzige Weg aus der Dunkelheit ist, ein Feuer zu entzünden... Schwer verletzt liegt die 17-jährige Moonbeam im Krankenhaus und sieht sich einem Psychologen und einem FBI-Agenten gegenüber. Sie, die zu den wenigen Überlebenden nach der schrecklichen Brandkatastrophe gehört, soll erzählen, wie das Leben war auf der Farm der Gotteslegionäre. Wie ist es zu dem schrecklichen Feuer gekommen, wie zu der Schießerei zwischen den Gotteslegionären und der Polizei? So viele sind gestorben.

For 13-year-old Sarah Waldman, life in the small Polish town of Olkusz is idyllic, grounded in her loving, close-knit family and the traditions of their Jewish faith. But in 1939, as the Nazis come to power, a storm is gathering - a relentless, unforgiving storm that will sweep Sarah and her family into years of turmoil in the ghetto and concentration camps, tearing them apart. 

Durante más de 40 años, Hipatia estuvo entre las edades oscuras y la luz de la filosofía clásica, las artes y las ciencias. Aunque ninguno de sus libros sobrevivió a la agresiva quema de libros de los fanáticos religiosos, su legado sigue siendo el de una de los mejores científicos de todos los tiempos. Esta es su fascinante historia real. 

In 2012, Summer’s family left everything in their American small town and bought a camper to explore Europe. At the age of 14, she wasn’t so keen on the idea and struggled with leaving everything she once knew. While trying to keep in contact with friends back home and living out of a suitcase, she realizes how much more there is to life than she had once believed. This is a story of self-discovery and world exploration for a family of four who have no idea what is in store for them.

They came from many of the high schools, middle schools, and continuation schools of Placer County due to truancy, multiple suspension, expulsion, probation referrals, or court order. Through their writings, the listener will enter the lives they had been living before attending the academy. It was their dream that at least one at-risk student would become inspired by their book and decide, after hitting rock bottom, to turn their lives around as they did.

En este relato autobiográfico, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa echa mano de sus experiencias como uno de los primeros submarinistas españoles. En ella nos relata sus inmersiones a lo largo y ancho de todo el mundo, las visiones submarinas y los paisajes arrebatadores que ha conocido en sus viajes, las anécdotas más memorables que ha vivido tanto bajo el mar como en la superficie, todo ello aderezado con ese sabor de aventura que solo un viajero de su talento puede evocar.

In a series of interwoven fictionalized stories, Deborah Noyes gives voice to the marginalized women in P. T. Barnum’s family - and the talented entertainers he built his entertainment empire on. Barnum was a legendary showman, entrepreneur, marketing genius, and one of the most famous nineteenth-century personalities. For those who lived in Barnum’s shadow, however, life was complex.

In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history’s most harrowing - and chilling - tales of survival.  

From internationally renowned K-pop legend Jessica Jung comes a fresh YA novel that peels back the curtain on the intense world of K-pop from the perspective of a Korean American girl, like Jessica, who is scouted off the street and thrust into an unknown world of competition, strict training and wild fame. What would you give for a chance to live your dreams? For 18-year-old Korean American Rachel Kim, the answer is almost everything.

Saving Washington follows young Joshua Bolton and his childhood friend Ben, a freed black man, as they witness British tyranny firsthand, become enraptured by the cause, and ultimately enlist to defend their new nation in a battle that galvanized the American nation on the eve of its birth. Chris Formant’s gripping tale blends real-life historical figures and events with richly developed fictional characters in a multi-dimensional world of intrigue, romance, comradeship, and sacrifice, transporting us two-and-a-half centuries back in time.

Corazón, Diario de un Niño, es el clásico universal de la literatura de Edmondo de Amicis. Enrique, chico italiano del siglo XIX, narra a través de su diario escolar todo lo importante que pasa en la escuela con sus compañeros de clase, sus maestros y su familia. Lecciones de amor, valor, honestidad e integridad. Un audiolibro que no puede faltar en la vida de los niños y jóvenes del presente, pues los valores son perennes y universales.

Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most of whom suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and compose music, read and paint, and daydream about Christophe, her brother's dashing fellow officer. But Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful, charming mother, Josephine, has married Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to become the most powerful man in France, but viewed by Hortense as a coarse, unworthy successor to her elegant father.

When soldiers arrive at his hometown in Cambodia, Arn is just a kid, dancing to rock 'n' roll, hustling for spare change, and selling ice cream with his brother. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp. Working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children, weak from hunger, malaria, or sheer exhaustion, dying before his eyes.