Le Periple De Baldassare

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Alan Armstrong

Newbery Honor--winning author Alan Armstrong's latest book!Eleven-year-old Mark's anthropologist father has disappeared in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo's ancient route from Venice to China. His mother decides they must go to Venice to petition the agency that sent Mark's father to send out a search party. Anxious about his father and upset about spending Christmas away from home, Mark gets a bad asthma attack in the middle of the night. That's when Doc Hornaday, an old friend of Mark's father, makes a house call, along with a massive black Tibetan mastiff called Boss. To distract Mark from his wheezing and to pass the long Venetian night, the Doc starts to spin for Mark the tale of Marco Polo. Doc describes Marco's travels and the boy finds himself falling under the spell of the story that has transfixed the world for centuries. Marco's journey bolsters Mark's courage and whets his appetite for risk and adventure, and for exposure to life in all its immense and fascinating variety.From the Hardcover edition.

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Adam Blade

Tom embarks on a quest to kill a massive mammoth beast that has captured his friend Ferno the Fire Dragon, and is terrorizing the people of the rebel camp in the forest. German-language description Actionreiche Fantasy, spannende Missionen und gefährliche Biester! Die erfolgreiche Kinderbuch-Reihe mit zahlreichen Illustrationen ist besonders für Jungs ab 8 Jahren geeignet.

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Barbara deRubertis

An aardvark who longs to travel far takes a trip downriver on a barge and has quite an adventurous journey, before deciding that she will be glad to return home to her ant farm.

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Laurent Chabin

Sandy a dix ans. Ses parents l'amènent avec eux à l'aventure dans les montagnes du Mali, au coeur du Sahara. Le désert est beau, mais aussi implacable. Le garçon est à dure école, l'inconfort, la chaleur, le soleil, etc. Son initiation est à son comble lorsque le khamsin se manifeste. Ils sont ensevelis dans le sable, les méharis se sont sauvés, le guide, disparu. Tout ce qui leur reste est un peu d'eau. Leur survie est menacée. -- Une trame simple, bien menée, avec un suspense progressif. Le texte rédigé dans un style direct est parsemé de quelques informations sur le monde du désert. [SDM].