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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 7
Language
English
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Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
4) Fartiste
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century France, Joseph Pujol, a little boy who can control his farts, grows up to become Le Petomaine, making audiences laugh at the Moulin Rouge in Paris with his animal noises, songs, and other sounds. Includes facts about Joseph Pujol and life in turn-of-the-century Paris.
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English
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Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, Wonderstruck and The Marvels, which together with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy!
2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick!Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks--like...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Paris in 1907 with Grandmary and the Admiral, Samantha and her adopted sister Nellie suspect that someone is trying to harm their beloved grandfather and stop his secret government mission. Includes a glossary of French words and an "Inside Samantha's World" essay about tourism and international tensions in Europe in the early 1900s.
11) Spectacle
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin, the writer of a newspaper's daily morgue report, must use her supernatural visions to discover the identity of a killer targeting the young women of nineteenth-century Paris.
Nathalie Baudin's column for Le Petit Journal summarize new arrivals at the morgue, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. When she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered-- from the perspective of the murderer...
13) The dark lady
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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While on summer vacation at the seaside, twelve-year-old Irene Adler meets the young Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Arsène Lupin--and when a dead body floats ashore the three young friends set out to solve the mystery.
14) Sensational
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Although suffering the effects of her magic, Nathalie Baudin and her fellow Insightfuls investigate who is using a guillotine and displaying beheaded victims at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris.
15) Belle epoque
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.
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