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À quatorze ans, la vie de Tom Riley prend une tournure inattendue avec la disparition mystérieuse de ses parents. Son oncle n’a alors d’autre choix que de lui révéler la vérité : le monde est peuplé de milliers de créatures étranges protégées par l’Agence, une organisation secrète pour laquelle ses parents travaillent en tant que traqueurs. Avec l’aide de ses nouveaux amis apprentis traqueurs, Tom amorcera une enquête parallèle à celle dirigée par l’Agence pour tenter de retrouver ses parents.

L’enquête menée par Tom sur l’enlèvement de ses parents ne cesse de se compliquer. Entre l’étrange message codé laissé par Kate Riley et l’évasion du quartier général de l’Agence d’une dangereuse créature, le jeune garçon ne sait plus que penser. Ses parents réussiront-ils à s’échapper de la cité des zuires ? Avec l’aide de ses amis, Tom parviendra-t-il à percer le secret que cache l’impitoyable traqueur Slavomir Radostny ? Et quelle est donc cette mystérieuse prophétie ? Les épreuves périlleuses se succèdent sans répit dans ce deuxième tome endiablé de La vie inattendue de Tom Riley.

À la suite d’étonnantes révélations au sujet de son grand-père, Tom décide de fuir le quartier général de l’Agence pour aller explorer les cités fantômes. À la recherche d’indices pour arracher ses parents aux griffes de l’Alliance des Ténèbres, il sillonnera ces endroits abandonnés jadis peuplés d’humains qui servent aujourd’hui de refuges aux créatures. Ses fidèles amis apprentis traqueurs feront tout pour l’aider dans cet audacieux périple au cours duquel il apprivoisera son extraordinaire et dangereux pouvoir caché.

Now as famous on radio and audio as they are in print, the adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown have been delighting both young and old for decades. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained, and mischievous, he is a lovable scamp whose pranks usually end in disaster, for his harassed elders at least. With friends Ginger, Douglas, and Henry (The Outlaws), and the angelic, lisping, thorn-in-his-side Violet Elizabeth Bott, William has rightly joined the literary, and radio, immortals. This volume of Just William features the following stories: William Goes To The Pictures, William The Intruder, William Below Stairs, The Fall Of The Idol, The Show, A Question Of Grammar, William Joins The Band Of Hope, The Outlaws, William And White Satin, William’s New Year’s Day, The Best Laid Plans, Jumble.

Serena Williams is a standout professional tennis player. Learn about her childhood and her rise to becoming a tennis superstar.

Katana longs for a family—people she can love who will love her back and teach her new and interesting things. Unfortunately, the first family to take Katana home brings her back to the shelter, where she feels lonely and abandoned. Then, Katana meets Ashley and Jacky! They teach Katana many lessons, and Katana reciprocates, teaching them many lessons in return.

17 favourite stories about the irrepressible William Brown, specially selected and read by Martin Jarvis. Whether a long-standing fan or a first time listener, this collection of stories is the ultimate Just William audio experience. With over four hours of laugh-out-loud stories, including two stories performed to a live audience, Just William's Greatest Hits! is the perfect entertainment for the whole family.

Fourteen adventures featuring the incorrigible William, read by Martin Jarvis. Martin Jarvis has made the voices of William and his gang of outlaws his own in these marvellous readings. Roar with laughter as the lovable rogue wreaks havoc in this ever-popular series of stories.

Here are 10 hilarious stories from the genius pen of Richmal Crompton, featuring legendary, lateral-thinking schoolboy William Brown.

Edgar nominee Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a three-time Newbery Honor winner, and her book The Unseen was named as both a School Library Journal Best Book and Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner. In William S. and the Great Escape, Snyder pens a middle-grade adventure sure to be ranked with her very best.

DER 13-JÄHRIGE LUKE WILL EINFACH NUR GECHILLTE SOMMERFERIEN VERBRINGEN – DOCH DANN WIRBELT EINE GRUPPE VON KLIMAAKTIVISTEN SEINE NACHBARSCHAFT GRÜNDLICH DURCHEINANDER. Als Lukes große Schwester ins Protestcamp auf die andere Straßenseite zieht, liegen die Nerven der Eltern blank. In Lukes Augen sind die Öko-Rebellen mit ihren Bongo-Trommeln und Tattoos eigentlich ganz okay. Nervig ist nur Sky – die findet Schulpflicht und regelmäßige Mahlzeiten einfach nur toll und beneidet Luke um sein Spießerleben.

The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation.

News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the 19th century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these 'Chapters from a Utopian Romance' recount his journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, Morris's own country house in Oxfordshire.

William's summer days are filled with endless chores, and occasional fishing trips to the lake. All this changes when a violent, supernatural storm separates him from the protection of his beloved dogs, Copper and Bumbles, placing his life gravely at risk. Now, lost and alone, he must adapt fast to a magically altered world where foxes talk and trees gossip.

Gotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between and depends entirely upon whom you ask.... Gotrek and Felix join an expedition northwards in search of the long-lost dwarf hold of Karag Dum. Setting forth for the hideous Realms of Chaos in an experimental dwarf airship captained by an insane Slayer-Engineer, the heroic pair is sworn to recover the ancient treasures or die in the attempt. But darkness awaits them in Karag Dum, along with the greatest battle of Gotrek's life....

In this sequel to The Wind in the Willows, the characters of the River Bank come alive in a new adventure. In this sequel to The Wind in the Willows, the characters of the River Bank come alive in a new adventure...

When his grandfather begins to lose his memories to dementia, twelve-year-old Jonty is offered the chance to explore a magical realm where forgotten memories come to life. Armed with nothing but his wits, Jonty must journey through the Gate of Memory to recover his grandfather's lost recollections and help him complete his memoirs. But the memory world is haunted by pirates who are determined to steal the forgotten memories for themselves. Soon Jonty’s quest becomes a perilous fight to prevent Gramps’ memories from being lost forever.

John William Drake was born an explorer; just like many, many Drakes before him. His adventure really began with the discovery of a book hidden in the ceiling, followed by the mysterious disappearance of his father. He lived every day in misery until his 12th birthday. A new friend gave him an invitation he could not turn down: follow me and change your destiny. He never imagined being captured by bandits and taken to a ship riddled with river rats was part of his fate. Not just any bandits - the Bandits of Basswood.

London, 1601. Honesty, a storyteller seeking fame and fortune, befriends Alice, a maid to Queen Elizabeth I. But can Alice be trusted? A tale of intrigue, scheming and plots, set in the spellbinding world of the Elizabethan court, leads to a thrilling adventure where nothing is as it seems.

Lark struggles when her family and their friends go on holiday in a lonely caravan site on the Welsh coast. Her mother is ill, her little sister has stopped speaking and she has fallen out with her best friend. Is a girl in a green dress following her in the fog? Or is her sister playing tricks on her? When a local woman tells her the girl comes to take sisters, Lark finds herself the only one who can save her family.