Timothée de Fombelle
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Series
Language
English
Description
1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by the slave trade. The journey to bring her brother home becomes a harrowing adventure to save herself, her...
Author
Series
Vango volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police who blame him for a murder, as well as more sinister forces with darker intentions, Vango attempts to trace the secrets of his shrouded past and prove his innocence before all is lost. As he crisscrosses the continent via train, boat, and even the Graf Zeppelin airship, his adventures take him from Parisian rooftops...
Author
Series
Vango volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
Fleeing dark forces and unfounded accusations across Europe in the years between World Wars, a young man named Vango has been in danger for as long as he can remember. He has spent his life running along rooftops, fleeing to isolated islands, and evading capture across Russia, Paris, New York, and Italy. In the shadow of a rapidly changing world, can Vango find those who have hunted him for so long and uncover his true identity?
5) Toby alone
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Toby is just one and a half millimeters tall, and he's the most wanted person in his world of the great oak Tree. When Toby's father discovers that the Tree is alive, he realizes that exploiting it could do damage to their world. Refusing to reveal the secret to an enraged community, Toby's parents have been imprisoned. Only Toby has managed to escape, but for how long?
Author
Series
Alma (de Fombelle) volume 1
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It is 1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by the slave trade. The journey to bring her brother home becomes a harrowing adventure to save herself,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Joshua Pearl comes from a world that we no longer believe in -- a world of fairy tale. He knows that his great love waits for him there, but he is stuck in an unfamiliar time and place -- an old-world marshmallow shop in Paris on the eve of World War II. As his memories begin to fade, Joshua seeks out strange objects: tiny fragments of tales that have already been told, trinkets that might possibly help him prove his own story before his love is...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Toby's tiny world is under greater threat than ever as Leo Blue holds Elisha prisoner while hunting the Grass People and anyone who stands in the way of his devastating plans for the oak Tree in which they all live, but this time Toby is not alone.
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Series
Little Prince volume 22
Language
English
Description
On this planet, two arguing rulers built a great wall of ice separating the Crystallites from the Spherolites. Can the Little Prince and Fox restore the peace?
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On this planet, two arguing rulers built a great wall of ice separating the Crystallites from the Spherolites. The leaders promise to end the conflict, yet rumors of war persist. Secrets and lies prevent the two groups from coming back together. But two people--Shaaz and Zaac--have fallen in love despite being separated by the wall. Could their love reconcile all the people of this planet? The Little Prince and Fox do all they can to help restore...
