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Type : Novel
Cover : soft
Format : 11 x 18 cm
Les Mises en boîte
The boxes-filling
Author : Eugène
Number of pages : 112
Age : from 10 years old on
Price : 8 €
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Eugène was born in Bucarest
in 1969 and lives in
Switzerland since 1975. He
has graduated in literature,
and devotes all his time
to writing, particularly for
plays.
Blurb
If adults started answering
to all the children’s questions,
one would never
finish. Nevertheless, one
day, Schachinka requires
simple answers to her simple
questions. Her family,
her school and the whole
town will be shaken up forever.
Childish curiosity, innocence,
consumer society
and solidarity are some of
the topics of this book.
Langues étrangères
Foreign languages
Author : François Chignac
Number of pages: 96
Age : from 12 years old on
Price: 6.70 €
François Chignac studied
communication and language
science. He lives in
France, where he works
as a journalist for an Europe’s
news channel covering
world news from an European
perspective in a choice
of seven languages.
Blurb
A young boy plunges into
a reflection about language
when he learns that
his father’s new partner
comes from an Anglophone
country. With her he begins
to learn a foreign language
and foreign culture. However,
he realises that even if
the words are translated it is
difficult to understand and
to be understood. Through
his style of writing which
favours an internal monologue,
François Chignac
conveys the concerns of an
adolescent.
Ici ou ailleurs
Here or Elsewhere
Author : Janine Bruneau
Number of pages : 170
Age : from 12 years old on
Price : 8.50 €
Janine Bruneau is formative in
youth litterature and organiser
of reading and writing
workshop.
Blurb
This fiction takes place in
1989, in Moldavia. It is inspired
by facts and real testimonies.
The characters are
imaginary. Léna, a favorite
child and carefree, lives with
her mother Nina, a painter
in a village. When the Berlin
Wall falls, in November,
both of them hope to give
concrete expression to
their dream : immigrate to
France.
Nina au paradis
Nina in Paradise
Author : M.-C. Ruata-Arn
Number of pages : 214
Age : from 10 years old
Price : 9 €
Blurb
Nina likes Hip-Hop, clothes
and her group of friends
with which she is preparing
the next dance show for the
end of the year. Who would
have thought for an instant
that Nina was going to have
to protect Lilian, “ the giant ”
or “ the ducks ”, “ first in all
except real life ”, her neighbor
in class and her favorite
prey ! Guardian angel ? It is
not at all funny ; it even is a
real catastrophe, but somehow…
Un Secret de famille
A Family Secret
Author : M.-C. Ruata-Arn
Number of pages : 192
Age : from 12 years old
Price : 9 €
Blurb
Who has never dreamt of
winning a million at the lottery
? Well, when a case full
of bills arrives, by chance, in
a family of immigrants living
in the Geneva suburbs, one
comes closer to a nightmare.
The brother, a simple
man with a big heart has
found this abandoned case
in a stairwell and gives it to
his sister for her birthday.
The secret of this incredible
present then becomes the
family’s life turning point.
How can one taste this
promise of comfort without
being caught or bringing
discord within the family ?
A suspense novel, sharp
and joyful, well fitting to our
times.
Qui a volé la marionnette ?
Who has stolen the puppet ?
Author : M.-C. Ruata-Arn
Number of pages : 170
Age : As from 9 years old
Price : 9 €
Marie-Christophe Ruata-Arn was born and lives in Geneva.
Urban-architect, she also is a scenario writer and has
written for comics, for puppet theatre and television.
Blurb
Preparations for action at the museum Paul Klee. A puppet
has been stolen. No effraction, no index : the robbers
are the malignant ones and the police officers are on the
teeth.
Samuel Zenger (40 years), who doesn’t know anything
in Art, thinks that only a crazy man could steal this puppet.
Anyway, he has other things to do. The policeman is
waiting for his daughter Lena (13 years). More exactly, he
doesn’t wait for her, but his wife has decided that Lena
would stay with him during a moment, in August.
Lena, from the top of her thirteen, hate this idea. Samuel,
on his hand, doesn’t know how to speak with his daugther
teenager.
Here is a summer which is announced badly !
The first moments spent between father and daugther will
be difficult, more especially as they are found taken in the
investigation. But soon, the puppet opens the doors of a
world to them which they did not suspect : that one of the
work of Paul Klee. Siezed by the beauty and the desire for
finding the puppet, the father and the daughter will launch
out in this enthralling investigation. These “ obligatory holidays
” become one privileged moment where the two protagonists
will be able to find itself.
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