Kate DiCamillo
1) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Publisher
WMF Martins Fontes
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Portuguese
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Description
Era uma vez uma casa na rua Egito, onde morava um coelho chamado Edward Tulane. O coelho era muito feliz: pertencia a uma menina chamada Abilene, que o tratava com o maior cuidado e o adorava. Mas um dia o coelho se perdeu e foi obrigado a viajar, das profundezas do oceano até a rede de um pescador, do topo de um monte de lixo até a fogueira de um acampamento de mendigos, da cama de uma criança doente até as ruas de Mênfis. Nessa aventura extraordinária,...
Author
Series
Orris and Timble volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris "make the good and noble choice" (as the king on his prized sardine can might recommend) and rescue the owl, despite the fact that owls and rats are natural enemies? And if he does, will he be ready for the consequences?"--
4) Winn-Dixie
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Language
Français
Description
See below for English description.
Grâce à Winn-Dixie, le chien qui sourit, Opal, une nouvelle venue au village, réussit à se créer un cercle d'amis, parmi lesquels elle trouve espoir et réconfort.
When 10-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her father, she doesn't know what to expect — least of all, that she'll adopt Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the supermarket where they met.
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Publisher
WMF Martins Fontes
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Portuguese
Description
Com a sensibilidade e a emoção que a caracterizam, a autora fala de um menino em busca da irmã, de quem foi obrigado a se separar em circunstâncias obscuras. Na sua trajetória ele se vê às voltas com os acontecimentos mais estapafúrdios, envolvendo um elefante que aparece milagrosamente, um mágico cheio de culpas, um velho soldado meio maluco e outros personagens inusitados. Provocando choro, susto, riso e alívio este livro conta uma história...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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From beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes the first book in a warm and funny early-reader trilogy about a misanthropic rat and a naive owl—and the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris "make the good and noble
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
Author
Publisher
Editora WMF Martins Fontes Ltda
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Author
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"¡Stella quiere salir a cantar villancicos! Pero todos están muy ocupados esta noche... ¿Tendrá que cantar sola, acompañada por el caballos y el gato del barrio, y por la maravilla porcina? Celebra los callados milagros de la Navidad con Mercy y sus amigos."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
"Makhaon"
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
"Odnazhdy malʹchik-sirota Piter Di︠u︡shen uznaët ot gadalki, chto ego sestrënka, kotorui︠u︡ on schital umersheĭ, zhiva. I chto privedët ego k neĭ slonikha. Malʹchik ne mozhet v ėto poveritʹ, potomu chto slonov v ikh mestakh otrodi︠a︡sʹ ne bylo. Odnako vskore nachinai︠u︡t proiskhoditʹ neveroi︠a︡tnye sobytii︠a︡..."--Back cover.
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace...
