How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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Louise-Michelle Sauriol

Fanie fait un rêve. Ses cousins Pierre-Yves, Joëlle, Mine et le perroquet Tico se déguisent avec elle pour aller à la recherche du trésor de Noël. La jeune cousine handicapée mentale s'obstine à faire l'étoile. Par magie, elle les emporte vers un pays aride peuplé de bêtes inquiétantes où ils livreront un message de paix. -- Une trame chaotique, qui, sous le couvert du merveilleux, sur fond de rêve prémonitoire, part dans tous les sens. Confus. [SDM].

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Cary Fagan

""If you always feel fully and completely happy, my friends, then you do not need my drops and I will not sell them to you for any amount of money." --Master Melville Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan Mintz helps his family run the Stardust Home for Old People. It's not ideal: his best friend, Manny, is eighty-one years old. But life as usual turns upside down when Master Melville's Medicine Show comes to town. Sullivan's excitement at finding performers his own age dissolves into dread when he steps onstage for a magic act only to wake up imprisoned in the traveling show's caravan. As his fears subside, his questions multiply. Is his family better off without him? Would life as a juggler performing with other kids be worse than living in an old folks' home? Being kidnapped could be the best thing that ever happened to him. or decidedly not"-- "A charming, humor- and heart-filled middle grade story of a misfit boy who finds an unexpected second life after being kidnapped by a colorful traveling medicine show"--

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Jonathan Stroud

Blood feuds, epic battles and a undersized hero come together in this brilliant new fantasy adventure from the author of the bestselling Bartimaeus trilogyListen then, and I'll tell you again of the Battle of the Rock. But none of your usual wriggling, or I'll stop before I've begun . . . Halli loves the old stories from when the valley was a wild and dangerous place - when the twelve legendary heroes stood together to defeat the ancient enemy, the bloodthirsty Trows.Halli longs for adventure but these days the most dangerous thing in the valley is boredom. He tries to liven things up by playing practical jokes. But when one of his jokes goes too far, he reawakens an old blood feud and finds himself on a hero's quest after all. Along the way he meets a ruthless thief, a murderous rival, and a girl who may just be as fearless as he is . . . Jonathan Stroud has created an epic saga with a funny, unique spin, and an unforgettable anti-hero.

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Francesca Simon

Susan, forced to clean up her room, finds that wishing on a Greek coin transports her to the past. She suffers a much worse fate - helping Hercules clean the Augean stables, narrowly avoiding being turned to stone by Medusa, and much more.