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32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 x 29 cm
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After reading his grandfather's travel diary, Arlo the armadillo, sets out to explore Paris and meet La Dame de Fer.
A winsome armadillo from Brazil takes a trip to Paris in this delightful new picture book from Julie Kraulis. Arlo is an armadillo who is always up for adventure. His grandfather, Augustin, loved adventure too. When Arlo was born, Augustin wrote travel journals about his favorite places for Arlo to use when he was hold enough to go...
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268 pages ; 21 cm.
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Español
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"Sin el Libro de Recetas, la familia Bliss no tiene otro remedio que elaborar cruasanes, pasteles y galletas siguiendo las indicaciones del libro de Betty Crocker. Los dulces siguen siendo deliciosos y la gente de Fuente Calamidades continúa acudiendo todas las mañanas a comprar a la Pastelería Bliss ... Sin embargo, la magia se ha ido del pueblo y en éste reina un ambiente oscuro y gris. Indignados por la explotación que del libro y sus poderes...
23) Two summers
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Two possible futures face Summer: either she will spend the summer in Provence with her father, uncovering family secrets, and exploring the old world, or she will stay in upstate New York, coping with her mother, and dreaming of her long time crush -- and which future unfolds will depend on whether or not she answers a phone call.
24) One for all
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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...
26) A drop of night
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v, 439 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Alternately tells of seventeen-year-old Anouk and four other teens chosen for an exclusive and very dangerous program to explore the subterranean Palais du Papillon, unopened for over 200 years, and Aurelie, who escaped the French Revolution by fleeing into the Palais in 1789.
27) The Darkest hour
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In 1943 sixteen-year-old Lucie Blaise is the newest recruit of Covert Ops, a secret espionage and sabotage organization of girls, and her mission in German occupied France is to track down information about a weapon that could wipe out all of Western Europe--and then dismantle it before it can be used.
28) Emma in Paris
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1 volume (unpaged) : colored illustrations ; 32 cm
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English
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Following Emma's Journey, which took Emma from her home in Central Park through Manhattan and then across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris, Emma in Paris tells the story of Emma's first months in the City of Light, where she meets her cousin Amelie, joins with her in her circus act, and is befriended by a gentle cat named Edouard. Brave, curious, and determined, Emma is a wonderful heroine with whom to travel into the wide boulevards and secret corners...
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172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Español
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Marion Girardon, a thirteen-year-old French girl, worries about her looks, struggles to get along with her brother Charles while having a crush on his best friend, spends a vacation in Monaco with her family, and copes with her classmates and her teachers.
30) Tunnel of bones
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Now in Paris with her parents who are filming their TV show about the world's haunted cities, Cassidy Blake (who can see ghosts) and her friend Jacob (who is a ghost) are alert for trouble, especially when the filming takes them into the underground Catacombs, the empire of the dead, where Cassidy accidentally awakens a powerful poltergeist spirit--one whose mystery she must solve before his power in unleashed on the whole city.--
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Meet the Aristokittens, a trio of siblings with big (and delicious) plans! One day, while chasing each other through the streets of Paris, Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse uncover an abandoned café made just for animals. After hearing stories of the café's wondrous past, the kittens decide to reopen the place themselves. But the trio can't agree on the menu, music, and decorations. With opening day creeping closer, can the kittens avoid a total catastrophe...
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231 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Michael, a thirteen-year-old French-American, watches in fear as the Nazis invade Paris, and is spurred to become part of the French Resistance movement, defying Hitler, helping American aviators to safe zones, and delivering secret documents at great risk to his own safety. Includes historical notes, glossary, and timeline.
33) Madeline
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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.
34) Revolution
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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.
35) Rook
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History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade. Except for those who disappear from their prison cells, a red-tipped rook feather left in their place. Is the mysterious Red Rook a savior of the innocent or a criminal? Meanwhile, across the sea in the Commonwealth, Sophia Bellamy's arranged marriage to the wealthy René Hasard is the last chance to save her...
37) The Pear affair
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277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, Perrine, affectionately known as Pear. With the help of a friendly bellboy at her parents' hotel, Nell sets out into-- and under-- the streets of Paris. They bring to light a sinister plot to destroy a cherished-- and delicious-- part of Parisian life. -- adapted from jacket
38) War stories
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Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him -- but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a...
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Aristokittens volume 2
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122 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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While hosting a Dog Biscuit Bake-Off in honor of their new puppy friends, a trio of siblings--the Aristokittens--are pitted against each other, which threatens to make this contest a furry fiasco!
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