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Présentation de l'éditeur (Anne Carrière) :

Chaque année, les habitants du Protectorat abandonnent un bébé en sacrifice à la redoutée sorcière des bois.

Ils espèrent ainsi détourner sa colère de leur ville prospère.

Chaque année, Xan, la sorcière des bois, se voit contrainte de sauver un bébé que les fous du Protectorat abandonnent sans qu’elle ait jamais compris pourquoi.

Elle s’emploie à faire adopter ces enfants par des familles accueillantes dans les royaumes voisins.

Mais cette année, le bébé en question est différent des autres : la petite a un lien étrange avec la lune et un potentiel magique sans précédent.

Contre son gré, Xan se voit obligée de la ramener chez elle et de persuader ses amis réticents d’élever cette enfant pas comme les autres. Ils la baptiseront Luna et ne tarderont pas à en devenir gâteux.

Xan a trouvé comment contenir la magie qui grandit à l’intérieur de la petite, mais bientôt approche son treizième anniversaire, et ses pouvoirs vont se révéler…

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Présentation de l'auteur :

I wrote this with a fifth grade reader in mind - but the cool thing about Middle Grade Fiction in general is that it allows for "Big Tent Storytelling".

In other words, everyone is invited: little kids, big kids, teenagers, adults, old people.

Everyone.

The story manifests differently for different people - just like my experience reading THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE as an adult is different than the experience I had as a teenager, which is different than the experience I had as a child.

Same book, different stories.

There are some scary bits in this story, but no scarier than any other fairy tale. If they can handle the prose (and I don't pull any punches with the difficulty; I always expect my readers to come with their A game), then they can handle the content. I hope that helps!

A stunning new collection of fantasy short stories from the World Fantasy Award- and Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,” a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. “Dreadful Young Ladies” demonstrates the strength and power—known and unknown—of the imagination. In “Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake,” a witch is haunted by the deadly repercussions of a spell. “The Insect and the Astronomer” upends expectations about good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, love and longing. The World Fantasy Award–winning novella “The Unlicensed Magician” introduces the secret magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead—with thematic echoes of Barnhill’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

With bold, reality-bending invention underscored by richly illuminated universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope, the stories in Dreadful Young Ladies show why its author has been hailed as “a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). This collection cements Barnhill’s place as one of the wittiest, most vital and compelling voices in contemporary literature.

This spellbinding fantasy begs for a cozy chair and several hours of uninterrupted reading time. "The Washington Post" When Ned and his identical twin brother tumble from their raft into a raging river, only Ned survives. Villagers are convinced the wrong boy lived. Across the forest that borders Ned s village, Aine, the daughter of the Bandit King, is haunted by her mother s last words: The wrong boy will save your life, and you will save his. When the Bandit King comes to steal the magic Ned s mother, a witch, is meant to protect, Aine and Ned meet. Can they trust each other long enough to cross a dangerous enchanted forest and stop the war about to boil over between their two kingdoms? Barnhill is a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman. " Minneapolis Star Tribune" ["The Witch s Boy"] should open young readers eyes to something that is all around them in the very world we live in: the magic of words. " The New York Times" This is a book to treasure. " Nerdy Book Club"A "Washington Post "Best Book of 2014 A "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of 2014 A "Kirkus Reviews "Best Children s Book of 2014 A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2014 "

Pierre-dans-la-Vallée était autrefois une ville riante, mais le sort s’est acharné : incendies, inondations et autres calamités ont coûté à ses habitants leur bibliothèque, leur école, leur parc et même leur esprit de bon voisinage. Affligée, la communauté a placé ses derniers espoirs dans son maire, un personnage haut en couleur qui se prétend leur ultime recours. Après tout, n’est-il pas un célèbre tueur de dragons ? (Affirmation audacieuse, mais il est vrai que personne n’a vu de dragon en sa présence.) Seuls les enfants rusés de l’orphelinat et la gentille ogresse vivant dans les faubourgs semblent continuer à porter un regard objectif sur les problèmes de la ville.

Voilà qu’un jour un des jeunes pensionnaires de l’orphelinat disparaît. À l’instigation du maire, tous les regards suspicieux se tournent vers l’ogresse. Les orphelins ne doutent pas un instant du bon cœur de cette dernière, ils savent qu’avec l’aide d’une bande de corbeaux distingués, elle s’emploie à livrer des cadeaux aux habitants de Pierre-dans-la-Vallée. Mais arriveront-ils à convaincre les adultes, si personne ne veut les écouter ? Et parviendront-ils à démasquer le véritable coupable qui se cache parmi eux ?

Learn about the Mass Dragoning of 1955 in which 300,000 women spontaneously transform into dragons...and change the world.

Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Seemingly for good. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn't know. It's taboo to speak of, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.

Forced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of dragons: a mother more protective than ever; a father growing increasingly distant; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed; and a new "sister" obsessed with dragons far beyond propriety. Through loss, rage, and self-discovery, this story follows Alex's journey as she deals with the events leading up to and beyond the Mass Dragoning, and her connection with the phenomenon itself.

Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.

“Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters.”

A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it’s been just the three of them—her mom has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed.

Yet when her mom brings home a six-foot tall crane with a menacing air, the girl is powerless to prevent her mom letting the intruder into her heart, and her children’s lives. Utterly enchanted and numb to his sharp edges, her mom abandons the world around her to weave the masterpiece the crane demands.

In this stunning contemporary retelling of “The Crane Wife” by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family—and change the story.

Worlds Seen in Passing is an anthology of award-winning, eye-opening, genre-defining science fiction, fantasy, and horror from Tor.com's first ten years, edited by Irene Gallo.

Since it began in 2008, Tor.com has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. Its hundreds of remarkable stories span from science fiction to fantasy to horror, and everything in between. Now Tor.com is making some of those worlds available for the first time in print.

This volume collects some of the best short stories Tor.com has to offer, with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short stories and novelettes chosen from all ten years of the program.