by Gérald Gagnon (2007)
À l'âge de quinze ans, Patrick Labedan, d'origine française, accompagne son père géologue dans le Grand Nord du Québec. L'hélicoptère qui doit les amener de Chibougamau au lac Conflans s'écrase. Le père de Patrick meurt. Patrick survit quelques jours au milieu des loups, quitte son abri et est recueilli par Björn et sa fille Vigdis, une jeune pianiste qui sait parler aux loups. Björn, d'origine islandaise, est prospecteur de diamants et travaille avec son associé, Marcel Fortunat. Ensemble, ils vivent dans un lieu qui s'appelle l'Ermitage. Mais voilà qu'ils se sentent menacés par des individus désireux de découvrir l'emplacement de leur filon de diamants ... -- Une trame confuse, lourde. [SDM].
Lloyd Alexander
In 1873 seventeen-year-old Vesper Holly and her guardians travel to an obscure European grand duchy, where their archenemy Dr. Helvitius is pursuing a lost art treasure and engineering the country's annexation by a neighboring kingdom.
Sharon Creech
Set in the breathtaking landscape of Lugano, Switzerland, Bloomabilityis Sharon Creech at her very best.When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life by her aunt and uncle and whisked away to an international school in Switzerland, her world is turned upside down. Suddenly surrounded by different cultures, languages, and beliefs, Dinnie struggles to holdon to her past life. Gradually, through friendships and experiences she could have nowhere else, she learns to trust herself and discovers the beautiful "bloomabilities" her new life has to offer.01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.), 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8), Pacific NW Library Assoc. 2001 Young Reader's Choice Award Masterlist, and 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Masterlist(Grds 6-9) Young Adult's Choices for 2000 (IRA)
adapted by Julia Simon-Kerr
When Jack Driscoll and his film crew step off their boat and onto the shores of Skull Island, they must battle dinosaurs and conquer the massive gorilla, Kong.