foreign rights spring 2018
© Fred Fivas
FOREIGN RIGHTS SPRING 2018
You will see FRÉDÉRIQUE BERTRAND 2 years + 17 x 22 - 40 pages - hardback with rounded corners 14,50 e
A pair of big, eager eyes fill the double-pages, looking right, in the direction of reading. Towards the future. Look closely and you will understand that life is synonymous with choices to be made, preferences and personal tastes. You will see questions the child’s future and everything that will contribute to his growth, what he will become, his personality and finally his freedom of being. Joyful illustrations abound in this picture book. The reader will have fun finding the black, round pupils throughout the pages.
Super soft GAËTAN DORÉMUS 3 years + 18,5 x 22,5 - 36 pages - hardback 14 e
A victim of the melting sea ice, a polar bear has to leave the igloo he called home and, eventually, the ice. In his search for a place to live, he walks night and day across cities and warm and cold landscapes until he reaches a little house on top of a hill where a she-bear lives. In the cosiness of her home, they share a life and the passing of the year. A tiny, super soft bear-cub will be born from this long journey between warmth and cold.
Picture books
SO COOL FRED FIVAZ 4 years + 18,5 x 24,5 - 32 pages - hardback 15 e
Lia DANIELA TIENI 3 years + 19 x 25,5 - 32 pages - hardback 13 e
TIME-S HENRI MEUNIER & AURORE PETIT 4 years + 19 x 25 - 32 pages - hardback 14 e
Lia is an inquisitive child. Fruits, their characteristics and their shape help her wonder about herself and dream of being different. All these types of fruit have advantages and disadvantages: see this blueberry, excellent for one’s sight but so tiny no one notices it? Lia-blueberry ends up losing sight of herself and getting lost in a sea of uncertainties until a motherly strawberry brings her back to her sweet reality. As it should be.
Times, plural, as if it were multiple. Henri Meunier multiplies the abstract notion of time into a thousand facets, a thousand ways to appreciate and perceive it, all through a single image : that of a little boy sitting on a dock and dropping a stone in the water. It could last less than a second, an eternity, or the time to read the book. The child sits still, indifferent to what is going on around him, to the changes brought by the passing of time around him : insects and animals, flowers and trees, people and constructions but also the weather and the seasons. Everything changes quickly, everything has its own rhythm. The child, on the other hand, remains still, contemplating the fall of the stone as he awaits the final ‘plonk’ that will end the book: the time of the reader.
Charles is obviously an extraordinary child. He is about to take a nap when he suddenly feels like going canoeing. Or is it ice-cream he wants? Charles eventually goes back to what he first wished for: a nap. As soon as he lies down, a new urge comes up. Fred Fivaz’s first album questions childhood and its many temptations, drawing us into the daily life of an hyperactive Charles, similar to many children that are often tempted and don’t necessarily go all the way.
Picture books
Panthera tigris SYLVAIN ALZIAL & HÉLÈNE RAJCAK 5 years + 19 x 25 - 32 pages - hardback 15 e
A scholar, an old guy who thinks he knows everything there is to know about the world, is surprised to realize he knows nothing about one thing: the Bengal tiger, Panthera tigris tigris. He sets off into the jungle with a young local guide whose only knowledge comes from field experience. As they progress, the guide tries to warn the scholar of the awaiting danger, but the old man only listens to himself; his scientific knowledge never allows his companion to express his fears. When it was obvious from the start that, face to face with the ferocious beast, things would get complicated... Hence a formidable 3D taste of reality for our scholar!
The day the ogres stopped eating children COLINE PIERRÉ & LOÏC FROISSART 6 years + 21 x 29,7 - 40 pages - hardback 15 e
Since the dawn of time, ogres have been known to raise children in order to eat them in every possible way. Until the day the children become inedible! Faced with this food catastrophe, the elderly council orders the ogres to change their eating habits. ‘We must become vegetarians!’ Some comply, but others hide to eat up... and have to pay the consequences. Meanwhile, the children grow and grow as big as the ogres, until it becomes impossible to tell them apart...
Picture books
collection
dacodac What a family!
Dressed up as nothing
PIRET RAUD
ALEX COUSSEAU ILL. NATHALIE CHOUX
6 years + 14 x 19 - 160 pages 8,50 e
When Adam’s teacher asks him to draw his family tree, the little boy is hard-pressed. His family is huge and, how should we put it... Different. Probably something to do with his father who looks just like his dog, to the point where people mix them up. In fact, they look so much alike that when his dad is tired, he sends the dog to work in his stead... How about Uncle Pig, with the small slot on his head where his wife keeps her savings? Or his brother with his football head, or his cousin with the eye where birds fly and the other where fish swim? And that’s not mentioning all the other members! Ok, you got it: Adam’s family is a LITTLE BIT special. This new collection of stories written and illustrated by Piret Raud with her usual whimsicality will both carry the reader away and amuse him as he notices the differences big and small that can be found within every family.
8 years + 14 x 19 - 64 pages 7e
Titouan’s first days of school are not going as planned. For one, he sucks at football. What’s more, no one bothered to tell him about carnival. A day where, as he can see, everyone dresses up, as Zorro, as a flower, as Spiderman or as the Yeti. Even the teacher turns up as Tinkerbell! As a result, he’s the victim of jibes such as ‘The newcomer is dressed up as nothing! Let him join the witch!’ But who is this witch everyone is talking about? That’s when he bumps into a bin and hears a small voice inviting him to join her inside. As he meets Nadia and his eyes get used to the darkness, he discovers her face and understands why she is being called a witch. For her sake, Titouan is going to turn into a knight and try to change things.
Everyone is kissing but me
Bread and Ketchup
ALEX COUSSEAU ILL. NATHALIE CHOUX
MARIE-SABINE ROGER
8 years + 14 x 19 - 64 pages 7e
There is no such thing as an impossible love. Isn’t Grégoire’s dog in love with a mole? Just look around you, all you see is people kissing all the time! Well, except for Grégoire, 9, for whom things are a bit more complicated. Beautiful Léonor, a 20-year-old biology student, works in a shoe shop to make a little money. That’s where he first met her, in the shopping arcade. He’d chosen red shoes, she was at his feet, they were meant to be... And since there is no such thing as chance, he runs into her at the supermarket where it turns out she knows his mum who asks her to come and keep an eye on him. Let me tell you that even when you’re the king of pasta sauce, seducing the babysitter is anything but easy. Especially when you realize she’s in love with someone else...
8 years + 14 x 19 - 96 pages 8e
5-year-old Nicolas keeps getting into trouble and into fights. He still can’t write his name, and his favorite spot in class is the do-it-yourself corner. He also has his own particular way of understanding stuff. But his mischievous eyes hardly hide the way he is treated at home, with a violent father, a mother who often cries and brothers who easily kick him. To escape from this reality, Nicolas has invented a wacky inner world where he talks with imaginary friends. Bread and Ketchup tackles a difficult subject without ever getting schmaltzy; instead, the funny situations and the language’s creativity will make you laugh. Like every child his age, Nicolas navigates between real life and inner dreams, and he does so with beautiful energy.
Middle grade novels
collection
dacodac The revolt of the ugly animals COLINE PIERRÉ ILL. ANNE-LISE COMBEAUD 9 years + 14 x 19 - 128 pages 8,10 e
In the near future, a genius linguist has invented a universal language understood by all, humans as well as non-human beings. For the first time ever, all living things on the planet are able to communicate! Which means no more eating each other. For animals have feelings, thoughts and sometimes get very angry! But even if they’re not brought to the slaughterhouse anymore, they remain under human domination. And while some of them are wildly popular, others are considered second-class citizens. Until four friends considered ‘ugly’, a spider, a boa, a crocodile and a hyena, decide to revolt and finally be on equal footing with those annoying horses. With the help of a human, an outcast like them because he is homeless, they organize leaflets, unplanned demonstrations and a ferocious media campaign: they are ready to finally be heard.
Captain Mexico Philibert Merlin, enchanter’s apprentice GWLADYS CONSTANT ILL. JULIETTE BARBANÈGRE 9 years + 14 x 19 - 128 pages - 8,50 e
Philibert Merlin’s family is, well, a little special: they’re all enchanters! His parents and his six siblings all have a gift, an amazing power that makes each of them a genius in their own field. On the condition that their talent will always profit others and never be used for personal gain. That’s the way it is, their mission is to make the world a better place. But Philibert, the seventh child, the youngest, tries and tries without finding anything. His parents start worrying: is Philibert just a simple little boy? Therapist for enchanters, computer software, creative workshops, they leave no stone unturned to find out. What about Philibert? Well, he wishes everyone would just leave him be. Maybe then would he be able to discover his power, or even, who knows, his superpower.
GUILLAUME GUÉRAUD ILL. RENAUD FARACE 9 years + 14 x 19 - 128 pages 8,50 e
A superhero and his magical sombrero: fasten your seatbelts, chicos! In Matamoros, a small village on the US-Mexican border, Paco spends the time reenacting the big battles of his idol Emiliano Zapata. One day, as he comes home from school, the Mexican boy finds a strange sombrero with magical powers. When he puts it on, everything becomes possible: Explosive laser! Grenade spitting! Hurricane roaring! After having knocked out the village’s lout, Paco is ready to fight injustice, to free the innocents, to defend the Mexican workers on strike. Even to take on Donald Trumpette’s army! But the president of the United States, not about to back down, sends in the greatest American superhero, Big Boss! After My Grandma is a terror, this new adventure novel by Guillaume Guéraud is as original as it is funny.
Middle grade novels
doado
collection
dacodac Who am I? THOMAS GORNET
Théo, bathtub hunter in Lapland PASCAL PRÉVOT ILL. GASPARD SUMEIRE 9 years + 14 x 19 - 128 pages 8,50 e
Count Krolock Van Rujn has a big, big problem: one of the bathtubs of his huge castle in Lapland has become wild again and is terrifying everyone. Thankfully, someone can help: Theo’s father, the most famous, the most feared, the most incredible bathtub hunter in the world!
Théo and Elisa’s pursuit of the great white bathtub PASCAL PRÉVOT ILL. GASPARD SUMEIRE 9 years + 14 x 19 - 160 pages 8,50 e
Are you ready for a new adventure with the heroes of Théo, Bathtub Hunter in Lapland (2016 Gulli Award) ? Equipped with harpoons and humidity detectors, Theo, his dad and Elisa set off on a quest for another bathtub gone wild. But not just any bathtub, oh no: the mysterious, the legendary, the incredible, the great white bathtub! The dream of every bathtub hunter! The ultimate hunt! Onboard the Sea Crayfish, a high tech ‘bathtub ship’, they sail the oceans looking for it. But what promised to be the greatest hunt of all takes an unexpected turn. What secret is Olaf Thurgvaldson, strange captain of the Sea Crayfish, hiding? With his missing leg that has been replaced by a cast claw foot, the old sailor does not seem in a hurry to catch the great white bathtub... Once again, Theo and Elisa start investigating... Never forget : there may be more to a bathtub than meets the eye !
12 years + 14 x 20,5 - 80 pages 8,70 e
Who is Vincent, really? He doesn’t know. He says himself that he looks like an endive. What he hates most about school is sports and the locker room. He sometimes gets bullied, but he does have two true friends: Myriam, who might or might not be in love with him, and Aziz, who wants to fall in love. One day, a new boy, Cédric, the sporty type, joins his class. The newcomer soon becomes part of the ‘tough guys’ crew, the one where they call each other faggots. Nothing, absolutely nothing goes on between Vincent and Cédric. But as months go by, Vincent can’t make sense of his feelings anymore, torn as he is between embarrassment, small joys, big complexes and great heartache. It will take him a whole schoolyear to finally realize he has fallen in love. With Cédric.
The girl who lied for real CATHERINE GRIVE 12 years + 14 x 20,5 - 128 pages 10,20 e
Why does Kimberly, a.k.a Kid, lie all the time? A freshman, she often lies for fun, in a gratuitous and admittedly very funny way. Might the truth be too dangerous? Just like her dad, a Swedish-born long-haul truck driver who leaves for long trips to the great North, Kid has mastered the art of escaping constantly, at school or at home. Home where things are tense with her mother ever since her father left for a long-term assignment. At school, the boyish girl who hides behind her hoodie and her provocative tone can’t seem to fit in either. She eventually stops lying when she meets a boy and faces growing worry over her dad’s disappearance, while her mother seems to slip more and more into a huge deceit.
Teen novels
doado
Brouzouf tour Or the wild trip with my completely crazy grandma CÉCILE CHARTRE 12 years + 14 x 20,5 - 96 pages 9,20 e
Every night, Victorien and his grandma watch a TV quiz show. One day, they decide to be contestants on the show: they need the money, the ‘brouzouf’ as grandma says. With mum’s salary as the only way to make ends meet, life at home isn’t always easy. But how will they manage to get to Paris for the pre-selections when they live 800 kilometers away and can’t even pay for the train tickets? Car-sharing, of course! Which will give Victorien ample time to help his grandma revise with the manual ‘General culture for dummies’. Off they go for four days of adventures and hilarious encounters, including Grandma Colette’s youth lover, before ending at the police station! This road-movie across France is filled with laughter and tenderness.
The most beautifull of all RACHEL CORENBLIT 13 years + 14 x 20,5 - 192 pages 11,70 e
How far would you go to become famous? These girls are all 16, at least 1,75 meter tall and obviously ravishing. They’ve come from all around France, each with their own style, Flirt and low-cut tops, the Rebel, the Princess, the Nice Girl... All have been cast in ‘The Most Beautiful of All’, a reality-tv show. For six days, they will have to live together under one roof and the eyes of the cameras until the crowning of The Most Beautiful. To keep the ratings up, the producers have imagined all kinds of scenarios, from rivalries to secrets revealed to a kiss with an intern from the show. And every single one of the girls will get her public humiliation. But the manipulation will only hold on for three days: on the fourth, the girls form a secret alliance. By giving a voice to every protagonist from the show, Rachel Corenblit unveils the crude mechanisms of reality-tv, in a story that is funny, enthralling and moving.
My nights in the camper Black Titan FLORENCE AUBRY 13 years + 14 x 20,5 - 160 pages 11 e
Following graduation, Elfie finds a summer job as a cashier in a oceanographic park. When she is offered a position as an animal carer, she decides to drop university. She soon becomes Titan’s trainer: an old and imposing orca male, of a shiny and sumptuous black. She is convinced she shares a special relationship with the killer whale but, while telling us of her apprenticeship, another voice alternating with her own angrily relates what goes on behind the scenes : these shows are synonymous with suffering for the animals that are kept captive, harshly trained and under-fed. Titan is very similar to the infamous and real killer whale known as Tilikum, who was involved in the death of several people... From the true story of Tilikum, Florence Aubry draws a deeply moving story on the animal condition and adds her voice to the current movement to shut down animal theme parks.
SYLVIE DESHORS 13 years + 14 x 20,5 - 176 pages 11,50 e
A tight bunch of friends, somewhere in the heart of France. Since her mother died four years ago, Lucile has been living alone with her dad in a hamlet near Bellac, in the Limousin area. Broken by his loss, her dad stopped working after his restaurant burnt down. One morning, fed up by his complacency, Lucile moves to the small camper at the bottom of the field where her mother loved to go and paint. As she waits for a reaction from her dad, she arranges the camper with the help of her friends. It soon becomes the place to meet and party; in the area, nothing has been set up for the local youth. Lucile starts wondering about the reasons behind the restaurant’s closing: wasn’t it flourishing while her mother was still alive? In the hamlet, rumors abound: ‘wolves’ are said to have broken her father and taken advantage of his weakness. With the help of her friends, she decides to try and find out more. A positive portrait of a bunch of teenagers fighting against boredom in a small country hamlet.
Teen novels
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FOREIGN RIGHTS SPRING 2018
You will see FRÉDÉRIQUE BERTRAND 2 years + 17 x 22 - 40 pages - hardback with rounded corners 14,50 e
A pair of big, eager eyes fill the double-pages, looking right, in the direction of reading. Towards the future. Look closely and you will understand that life is synonymous with choices to be made, preferences and personal tastes. You will see questions the child’s future and everything that will contribute to his growth, what he will become, his personality and finally his freedom of being. Joyful illustrations abound in this picture book. The reader will have fun finding the black, round pupils throughout the pages.
Super soft GAËTAN DORÉMUS 3 years + 18,5 x 22,5 - 36 pages - hardback 14 e
A victim of the melting sea ice, a polar bear has to leave the igloo he called home and, eventually, the ice. In his search for a place to live, he walks night and day across cities and warm and cold landscapes until he reaches a little house on top of a hill where a she-bear lives. In the cosiness of her home, they share a life and the passing of the year. A tiny, super soft bear-cub will be born from this long journey between warmth and cold.
Picture books
SO COOL FRED FIVAZ 4 years + 18,5 x 24,5 - 32 pages - hardback 15 e
Lia DANIELA TIENI 3 years + 19 x 25,5 - 32 pages - hardback 13 e
TIME-S HENRI MEUNIER & AURORE PETIT 4 years + 19 x 25 - 32 pages - hardback 14 e
Lia is an inquisitive child. Fruits, their characteristics and their shape help her wonder about herself and dream of being different. All these types of fruit have advantages and disadvantages: see this blueberry, excellent for one’s sight but so tiny no one notices it? Lia-blueberry ends up losing sight of herself and getting lost in a sea of uncertainties until a motherly strawberry brings her back to her sweet reality. As it should be.
Times, plural, as if it were multiple. Henri Meunier multiplies the abstract notion of time into a thousand facets, a thousand ways to appreciate and perceive it, all through a single image : that of a little boy sitting on a dock and dropping a stone in the water. It could last less than a second, an eternity, or the time to read the book. The child sits still, indifferent to what is going on around him, to the changes brought by the passing of time around him : insects and animals, flowers and trees, people and constructions but also the weather and the seasons. Everything changes quickly, everything has its own rhythm. The child, on the other hand, remains still, contemplating the fall of the stone as he awaits the final ‘plonk’ that will end the book: the time of the reader.
Charles is obviously an extraordinary child. He is about to take a nap when he suddenly feels like going canoeing. Or is it ice-cream he wants? Charles eventually goes back to what he first wished for: a nap. As soon as he lies down, a new urge comes up. Fred Fivaz’s first album questions childhood and its many temptations, drawing us into the daily life of an hyperactive Charles, similar to many children that are often tempted and don’t necessarily go all the way.
Picture books
Panthera tigris SYLVAIN ALZIAL & HÉLÈNE RAJCAK 5 years + 19 x 25 - 32 pages - hardback 15 e
A scholar, an old guy who thinks he knows everything there is to know about the world, is surprised to realize he knows nothing about one thing: the Bengal tiger, Panthera tigris tigris. He sets off into the jungle with a young local guide whose only knowledge comes from field experience. As they progress, the guide tries to warn the scholar of the awaiting danger, but the old man only listens to himself; his scientific knowledge never allows his companion to express his fears. When it was obvious from the start that, face to face with the ferocious beast, things would get complicated... Hence a formidable 3D taste of reality for our scholar!
The day the ogres stopped eating children COLINE PIERRÉ & LOÏC FROISSART 6 years + 21 x 29,7 - 40 pages - hardback 15 e
Since the dawn of time, ogres have been known to raise children in order to eat them in every possible way. Until the day the children become inedible! Faced with this food catastrophe, the elderly council orders the ogres to change their eating habits. ‘We must become vegetarians!’ Some comply, but others hide to eat up... and have to pay the consequences. Meanwhile, the children grow and grow as big as the ogres, until it becomes impossible to tell them apart...
Picture books
collection
dacodac What a family!
Dressed up as nothing
PIRET RAUD
ALEX COUSSEAU ILL. NATHALIE CHOUX
6 years + 14 x 19 - 160 pages 8,50 e
When Adam’s teacher asks him to draw his family tree, the little boy is hard-pressed. His family is huge and, how should we put it... Different. Probably something to do with his father who looks just like his dog, to the point where people mix them up. In fact, they look so much alike that when his dad is tired, he sends the dog to work in his stead... How about Uncle Pig, with the small slot on his head where his wife keeps her savings? Or his brother with his football head, or his cousin with the eye where birds fly and the other where fish swim? And that’s not mentioning all the other members! Ok, you got it: Adam’s family is a LITTLE BIT special. This new collection of stories written and illustrated by Piret Raud with her usual whimsicality will both carry the reader away and amuse him as he notices the differences big and small that can be found within every family.
8 years + 14 x 19 - 64 pages 7e
Titouan’s first days of school are not going as planned. For one, he sucks at football. What’s more, no one bothered to tell him about carnival. A day where, as he can see, everyone dresses up, as Zorro, as a flower, as Spiderman or as the Yeti. Even the teacher turns up as Tinkerbell! As a result, he’s the victim of jibes such as ‘The newcomer is dressed up as nothing! Let him join the witch!’ But who is this witch everyone is talking about? That’s when he bumps into a bin and hears a small voice inviting him to join her inside. As he meets Nadia and his eyes get used to the darkness, he discovers her face and understands why she is being called a witch. For her sake, Titouan is going to turn into a knight and try to change things.
Everyone is kissing but me
Bread and Ketchup
ALEX COUSSEAU ILL. NATHALIE CHOUX
MARIE-SABINE ROGER
8 years + 14 x 19 - 64 pages 7e
There is no such thing as an impossible love. Isn’t Grégoire’s dog in love with a mole? Just look around you, all you see is people kissing all the time! Well, except for Grégoire, 9, for whom things are a bit more complicated. Beautiful Léonor, a 20-year-old biology student, works in a shoe shop to make a little money. That’s where he first met her, in the shopping arcade. He’d chosen red shoes, she was at his feet, they were meant to be... And since there is no such thing as chance, he runs into her at the supermarket where it turns out she knows his mum who asks her to come and keep an eye on him. Let me tell you that even when you’re the king of pasta sauce, seducing the babysitter is anything but easy. Especially when you realize she’s in love with someone else...
8 years + 14 x 19 - 96 pages 8e
5-year-old Nicolas keeps getting into trouble and into fights. He still can’t write his name, and his favorite spot in class is the do-it-yourself corner. He also has his own particular way of understanding stuff. But his mischievous eyes hardly hide the way he is treated at home, with a violent father, a mother who often cries and brothers who easily kick him. To escape from this reality, Nicolas has invented a wacky inner world where he talks with imaginary friends. Bread and Ketchup tackles a difficult subject without ever getting schmaltzy; instead, the funny situations and the language’s creativity will make you laugh. Like every child his age, Nicolas navigates between real life and inner dreams, and he does so with beautiful energy.
Middle grade novels
collection
dacodac The revolt of the ugly animals COLINE PIERRÉ ILL. ANNE-LISE COMBEAUD 9 years + 14 x 19 - 128 pages 8,10 e
In the near future, a genius linguist has invented a universal language understood by all, humans as well as non-human beings. For the first time ever, all living things on the planet are able to communicate! Which means no more eating each other. For animals have feelings, thoughts and sometimes get very angry! But even if they’re not brought to the slaughterhouse anymore, they remain under human domination. And while some of them are wildly popular, others are considered second-class citizens. Until four friends considered ‘ugly’, a spider, a boa, a crocodile and a hyena, decide to revolt and finally be on equal footing with those annoying horses. With the help of a human, an outcast like them because he is homeless, they organize leaflets, unplanned demonstrations and a ferocious media campaign: they are ready to finally be heard.
Captain Mexico Philibert Merlin, enchanter’s apprentice GWLADYS CONSTANT ILL. JULIETTE BARBANÈGRE 9 years + 14 x 19 - 128 pages - 8,50 e
Philibert Merlin’s family is, well, a little special: they’re all enchanters! His parents and his six siblings all have a gift, an amazing power that makes each of them a genius in their own field. On the condition that their talent will always profit others and never be used for personal gain. That’s the way it is, their mission is to make the world a better place. But Philibert, the seventh child, the youngest, tries and tries without finding anything. His parents start worrying: is Philibert just a simple little boy? Therapist for enchanters, computer software, creative workshops, they leave no stone unturned to find out. What about Philibert? Well, he wishes everyone would just leave him be. Maybe then would he be able to discover his power, or even, who knows, his superpower.
GUILLAUME GUÉRAUD ILL. RENAUD FARACE 9 years + 14 x 19 - 128 pages 8,50 e
A superhero and his magical sombrero: fasten your seatbelts, chicos! In Matamoros, a small village on the US-Mexican border, Paco spends the time reenacting the big battles of his idol Emiliano Zapata. One day, as he comes home from school, the Mexican boy finds a strange sombrero with magical powers. When he puts it on, everything becomes possible: Explosive laser! Grenade spitting! Hurricane roaring! After having knocked out the village’s lout, Paco is ready to fight injustice, to free the innocents, to defend the Mexican workers on strike. Even to take on Donald Trumpette’s army! But the president of the United States, not about to back down, sends in the greatest American superhero, Big Boss! After My Grandma is a terror, this new adventure novel by Guillaume Guéraud is as original as it is funny.
Middle grade novels
doado
collection
dacodac Who am I? THOMAS GORNET
Théo, bathtub hunter in Lapland PASCAL PRÉVOT ILL. GASPARD SUMEIRE 9 years + 14 x 19 - 128 pages 8,50 e
Count Krolock Van Rujn has a big, big problem: one of the bathtubs of his huge castle in Lapland has become wild again and is terrifying everyone. Thankfully, someone can help: Theo’s father, the most famous, the most feared, the most incredible bathtub hunter in the world!
Théo and Elisa’s pursuit of the great white bathtub PASCAL PRÉVOT ILL. GASPARD SUMEIRE 9 years + 14 x 19 - 160 pages 8,50 e
Are you ready for a new adventure with the heroes of Théo, Bathtub Hunter in Lapland (2016 Gulli Award) ? Equipped with harpoons and humidity detectors, Theo, his dad and Elisa set off on a quest for another bathtub gone wild. But not just any bathtub, oh no: the mysterious, the legendary, the incredible, the great white bathtub! The dream of every bathtub hunter! The ultimate hunt! Onboard the Sea Crayfish, a high tech ‘bathtub ship’, they sail the oceans looking for it. But what promised to be the greatest hunt of all takes an unexpected turn. What secret is Olaf Thurgvaldson, strange captain of the Sea Crayfish, hiding? With his missing leg that has been replaced by a cast claw foot, the old sailor does not seem in a hurry to catch the great white bathtub... Once again, Theo and Elisa start investigating... Never forget : there may be more to a bathtub than meets the eye !
12 years + 14 x 20,5 - 80 pages 8,70 e
Who is Vincent, really? He doesn’t know. He says himself that he looks like an endive. What he hates most about school is sports and the locker room. He sometimes gets bullied, but he does have two true friends: Myriam, who might or might not be in love with him, and Aziz, who wants to fall in love. One day, a new boy, Cédric, the sporty type, joins his class. The newcomer soon becomes part of the ‘tough guys’ crew, the one where they call each other faggots. Nothing, absolutely nothing goes on between Vincent and Cédric. But as months go by, Vincent can’t make sense of his feelings anymore, torn as he is between embarrassment, small joys, big complexes and great heartache. It will take him a whole schoolyear to finally realize he has fallen in love. With Cédric.
The girl who lied for real CATHERINE GRIVE 12 years + 14 x 20,5 - 128 pages 10,20 e
Why does Kimberly, a.k.a Kid, lie all the time? A freshman, she often lies for fun, in a gratuitous and admittedly very funny way. Might the truth be too dangerous? Just like her dad, a Swedish-born long-haul truck driver who leaves for long trips to the great North, Kid has mastered the art of escaping constantly, at school or at home. Home where things are tense with her mother ever since her father left for a long-term assignment. At school, the boyish girl who hides behind her hoodie and her provocative tone can’t seem to fit in either. She eventually stops lying when she meets a boy and faces growing worry over her dad’s disappearance, while her mother seems to slip more and more into a huge deceit.
Teen novels
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Brouzouf tour Or the wild trip with my completely crazy grandma CÉCILE CHARTRE 12 years + 14 x 20,5 - 96 pages 9,20 e
Every night, Victorien and his grandma watch a TV quiz show. One day, they decide to be contestants on the show: they need the money, the ‘brouzouf’ as grandma says. With mum’s salary as the only way to make ends meet, life at home isn’t always easy. But how will they manage to get to Paris for the pre-selections when they live 800 kilometers away and can’t even pay for the train tickets? Car-sharing, of course! Which will give Victorien ample time to help his grandma revise with the manual ‘General culture for dummies’. Off they go for four days of adventures and hilarious encounters, including Grandma Colette’s youth lover, before ending at the police station! This road-movie across France is filled with laughter and tenderness.
The most beautifull of all RACHEL CORENBLIT 13 years + 14 x 20,5 - 192 pages 11,70 e
How far would you go to become famous? These girls are all 16, at least 1,75 meter tall and obviously ravishing. They’ve come from all around France, each with their own style, Flirt and low-cut tops, the Rebel, the Princess, the Nice Girl... All have been cast in ‘The Most Beautiful of All’, a reality-tv show. For six days, they will have to live together under one roof and the eyes of the cameras until the crowning of The Most Beautiful. To keep the ratings up, the producers have imagined all kinds of scenarios, from rivalries to secrets revealed to a kiss with an intern from the show. And every single one of the girls will get her public humiliation. But the manipulation will only hold on for three days: on the fourth, the girls form a secret alliance. By giving a voice to every protagonist from the show, Rachel Corenblit unveils the crude mechanisms of reality-tv, in a story that is funny, enthralling and moving.
My nights in the camper Black Titan FLORENCE AUBRY 13 years + 14 x 20,5 - 160 pages 11 e
Following graduation, Elfie finds a summer job as a cashier in a oceanographic park. When she is offered a position as an animal carer, she decides to drop university. She soon becomes Titan’s trainer: an old and imposing orca male, of a shiny and sumptuous black. She is convinced she shares a special relationship with the killer whale but, while telling us of her apprenticeship, another voice alternating with her own angrily relates what goes on behind the scenes : these shows are synonymous with suffering for the animals that are kept captive, harshly trained and under-fed. Titan is very similar to the infamous and real killer whale known as Tilikum, who was involved in the death of several people... From the true story of Tilikum, Florence Aubry draws a deeply moving story on the animal condition and adds her voice to the current movement to shut down animal theme parks.
SYLVIE DESHORS 13 years + 14 x 20,5 - 176 pages 11,50 e
A tight bunch of friends, somewhere in the heart of France. Since her mother died four years ago, Lucile has been living alone with her dad in a hamlet near Bellac, in the Limousin area. Broken by his loss, her dad stopped working after his restaurant burnt down. One morning, fed up by his complacency, Lucile moves to the small camper at the bottom of the field where her mother loved to go and paint. As she waits for a reaction from her dad, she arranges the camper with the help of her friends. It soon becomes the place to meet and party; in the area, nothing has been set up for the local youth. Lucile starts wondering about the reasons behind the restaurant’s closing: wasn’t it flourishing while her mother was still alive? In the hamlet, rumors abound: ‘wolves’ are said to have broken her father and taken advantage of his weakness. With the help of her friends, she decides to try and find out more. A positive portrait of a bunch of teenagers fighting against boredom in a small country hamlet.
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