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Alex Van Tol Knifepoint
Jill (ca. 16, ik-figuur) heeft een vakantiebaan op een paardenranch in Canada. Tijdens een buitenrit wordt ze door een klant bedreigd met een mes. Verhaal in korte zinnen en gemakkelijke woorden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | 113 pagina's | Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC [etc.] | 2010
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L. Frank Baum The Road to Oz
"Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them."A shaggy-looking man, imaginatively called Shaggy Man, asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, but the two of them end up getting lost on their way and decide to proceed to Oz instead. For once not chased by danger, they arrive just in time for Princess Ozma‘s birthday party where a great assortment of colourful characters awaits. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘ starring Judy Garland, perfectly...
Engels | 4 uur 19 minuten (193 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Enchanted Island of Yew
Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a woman‘s mind in the luxury of a man‘s body. `The Enchanted Island of Yew` (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, the author...
Engels | 4 uur 37 minuten (206 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Rudyard Kipling Captain Courageous
Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action...
Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (272 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Susan Coolidge What Katy Did
"To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy." Twelve-year-old Katy Carr desperately wants to be good. But being a wild and hot-headed tomboy, it seems so much easier to start being good tomorrow than it does today. Even when her kind and patient invalid cousin comes to visit, Katy‘s resolution to change only lasts a few hours. But soon she will have much more in common with her cousin than she wished and it will confine her to her room perhaps forever. Will it make her finally able to uphold her promise?...
Engels | 4 uur 35 minuten (212 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz
Whatever happened in the lands of Oz after Dorothy left? In this sequel to the `The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‘, we meet a young boy named Tip, who, unlike Dorothy, has grown up in this magical place. He is under the care (though that is a relative term) of the witch Mombi, but escapes her evil clutches just in time before she turns him in to a statue. Traveling through Oz, Tip meets a bunch of whimsical creatures (some of whom we know already) who join him on an adventurous journey that will conclude...
Engels | 4 uur 28 minuten (210 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Augusta Huiell Seaman The Slipper-Point Mystery
When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them! Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of children's literature. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (143 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz
Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in `Ozma of Oz‘ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncle, Dorothy is once again caught up in a natural disaster – a huge storm at sea that separates her from her uncle. She washes ashore in the land of Ev, a fairyland that has recently lost its royal family, and Dorothy is once more entangled in the conflicts of a foreign place. Not everything is new however, as Dorothy unites...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
"There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time," said the Wizard. "As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy." During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cracks in the earth and find themselves in a whole new land – the Land of Mangaboos. The Mangaboos are a vegetable people, and they accuse Dorothy and her friends of causing the earthquake and sentence them to death. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘...
Engels | 4 uur 23 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....
Engels | 4 uur 4 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Martha Brooks Mistik Lake
Odella (17) heeft als enige een joyride over het ijs van 'Mistik Lake' overleefd. Drie vrienden zijn omgekomen. Als ze met haar ouders verhuist, blijven de raadsels hen achtervolgen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 207 pagina's | Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York | 2007
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Jack London The call of the wild and White Fang
Twee romans over de lotgevallen van een sledehond en een wolfshond in de witte wildernis van Canada en Alaska.
Fictie | Dierenleven
Engels | 278 pagina's | Signet Classics, New York [etc.] | 1991
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Mal Peet | Meg Rosoff Beck
De halfzwarte weesjongen Beck wordt in 1922 naar een katholiek weeshuis in Canada gestuurd en aan het werk gezet op een boerderij, waar (seksueel) misbruik en racisme gewoon zijn. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 266 pagina's | Walker Books, London | 2016
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Margaret Craven I heard the owl call my name
Een jonge, ongeneeslijk zieke Canadese priester leert tussen Indianen zijn naderende dood aanvaarden.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 138 pagina's | Heinemann Educational Books, Oxford [etc.] | 1999
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Sheila Burnford The incredible journey
Oefening in leesvaardigheid voor de wat meer gevorderden in de Engelse taal aan de hand van een verhandeling over twee honden en een kat die door de Canadese wildernis trekken en vele avonturen beleven tijdens hun poging hun thuis terug te vinden.
Fictie | Dierenleven
Engels | 76 pagina's | Pearson Education Limited, Harlow | 2008
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Jeff Lemire Essex County
Ballonstrip.
Fictie | Stripverhaal
Engels | 510 pagina's | Top Shelf Productions, [San Diego, CA | 2009
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Catherine Little | D'Arcy Little The changing face of Canada
Er wordt een overzicht gegeven van de veranderingen die plaatsvonden in Canada aan het begin van de 21e eeuw. Met interviews en kleurenfoto's. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Non-fictie
Engels | 48 pagina's | Hodder Wayland, Lewes | 2004
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