Biographies

Lorsque Kylian M'Bappé entre dans le stade Loujniki de Moscou ce soir du 15 juillet 2018, il est sur le point de réaliser son rêve : devenir champion du monde. Voici le parcours hors norme d'un surdoué du football.

Les femmes ont fait avancer la science, voici leur bio drôle ! Depuis que son frère a déclaré que les femmes étaient nulles en sciences, Louise est prête...

At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things....

Faites découvrir Napoléon aux enfants grâce à 10 tableaux qui retracent les temps forts de la vie de l'Empereur...

Né dans les steppes d'Asie centrale vers 1155, le jeune Temüdjin utilise son génie politique et militaire pour prendre la tête de plusieurs...

With exclusive access to Elon, his family, and his friends, this book traces Elon's journey from a kid in South Africa to a young man in the United States, his dramatic technical inventions....

The spiritual needs of the Muslim world, long neglected by Christian missionaries, came to the world's attention again when Samuel Zwemer dedicated himself to the advancement of the gospel in Arabia....

George Rogers Clark was a famous general in the Revolutionary War, and his explorations served as the inspiration for his younger brother William....

Une jeune fille pauvre et fragile est témoin de dix-huit apparitions de la Vierge dans une grotte près de chez elle. Depuis les pèlerins se...

Officier de cavalerie, Louis Hubert Lyautey sert en France, en Indochine, à Madagascar et en Algérie. Il devient le premier Résident général...

Abracadabra! Jack and Annie are on a mission for Merlin the magician. They’re looking for a secret of greatness from the best escape artist that ever lived, Harry Houdini. Using the magic tree house to travel back in time, Jack and Annie head to Coney Island to look for the elusive magician. How can they find the master of escape? It’s going to take some determination, a little bit of trouble, and a whole lot of magic!

Andy watches from behind a bush as his entire family leaves the only home he has known. What is a nine-week old kitten to do? Follow Andy’s adventures as he searches for his one true home. He tells everyone he meets his real name, but they don’t seem to care. Andy meets a most unusual assortment of friends who are willing to help him in his quest. Will Jimmy Gumbo be his greatest champion, or is that just another dead end?

Henry and Peter adopt a cat, or rather it adopts them, but they just can't decide what to call it! 

Catherine is a very messy girl. Her room is such a mess that she can hardly find anything when she needs it! She ignores her mom’s requests to keep her room tidy because she doesn’t really care how it looks. But Catherine is about to learn the consequences of her choices, when the Tooth Fairy gets injured on her first visit to Catherine’s house. Will Catherine take responsibility and think up a solution to make things right? And will she learn the bigger lesson about the importance of keeping her things tidy?

In this eagerly awaited sequel to A House Called Awful End, Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids being blown up, trampled by horses, hit by a hot-air balloon, and arrested...only to find himself falling head over heels for a girl with a face like a camel's and into the hands of a murderous gang of escaped convicts, up on the misty moors, who have a "little job" for him to do.

Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just-plain-annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have found a way around that problem - they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call the stories fables!