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Author
Series
Dodsworth volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Dodsworth and the duck vacation in Paris, they have a grand time despite running out of money and accidentally riding their bicycles in the Tour de France.
Author
Series
Grim lovelies volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their mistress is murdered, Anouk and her fellow beasties have only three days until their enchantment ends and they are transformed back into animals, but in seeking to remain human, they threaten the hierarchy imposed by the society of magic handlers in Paris called the Haute.
3) Rescue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
4) Madeline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format"--Page 4 of cover.
5) Point blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Language
English
Description
Alex, a fourteen-year-old spy, has been assigned by the British MI6 to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. He ends up in a boarding school in the Swiss Alps, and finds many strange things are happening to the students.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kate and Marine, best friends and longtime students at the intensely competitive Paris Opera Ballet School, must decide what price they are willing to pay to win the only available spot in the professional ballet company that operates the school.
7) Rooftoppers
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.
10) The bicycle spy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in position of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
11) Allies
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
12) One for all
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a mysterious book by the beloved writer Jules Verne falls into the hands of three unlikely friends, they begin a treasure hunt adventure through Paris"--
15) Revolution
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
Author
Series
Anna and Lola volume Book 1
Language
English
Description
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
19) Hugo
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Hugo the pigeon, the park warden of a small Parisian park, tries to coax a mysterious Somebody, the only one who never opens the windows for his visits, to come out to enjoy the park and make new friends.
20) Crictor
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1983, c1958
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A big snake comes to live in a town in France where he makes friends with the children who even use him for a jump-rope.
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