Système Valdôtain des Bibliothèques

Résumé: In the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year—if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system for the alternate months… Stan and Charmaine, a young urban couple, have been hit by job loss and bankruptcy in the midst of nationwide economic collapse. Forced to live in their third-hand Honda, where they are vulnerable to roving gangs, they think the gated community of Consilience may be the answer to their prayers. At first, this seems worth it: they will have a roof over their heads and food on the table. But when a series of troubling events unfolds, Positron begins to look less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. The Heart Goes Last is a vivid, urgent vision of development and decay, freedom and surveillance, struggle and hope—and the timeless workings of the human heart

Résumé: In un futuro distopico, dove l’acqua è controllata dai Keepers, la sete fa parte della vita di tutti i giorni. Kailani si avventura nel deserto, fino alla misteriosa The Edge, per trovare l’acqua che serve al suo fratellino malato.

Résumé: In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. Life there is harsh, tempered only by the apples they grow for eating and for the cider that dulls their pain. Hot-headed Sadie and buttoned-up James are a poor match, and Robert and his sister Martha can only watch helplessly as their parents tear each other apart. One particularly vicious fight sends Robert out alone across America, far from his sister, to seek his fortune among the mighty redwoods and sequoias of Gold Rush California. But even across a continent, he can feel the pull of family loyalties…

Résumé: Two boys are born on the same day, but their lives are very different. Edward Tudor is a prince and Tom Canty is a pauper. One day they decide to change identities. The poor boy’s dreams come true and he lives like a prince. The prince, on the other hand, discovers what life is like on the poor streets of London. But are dreams what they really seem? The boys soon find out.

Résumé: Quando Geppetto si apprestò a fare un bel burattino di legno che gli tenesse compagnia ebbe una sorpresa: al primo colpo di scalpello scoprì che... parlava! Lo chiamò Pinocchio, e iniziano qui le avventure del burattino più birichino di tutti i tempi. Le note a fine libro e le belle illustrazioni di Elisa Vavouri accompagnano i piccoli lettori in una delle pagine più amate della letteratura per ragazzi. Età di lettura: da 6 anni.