Maes

Short-listed for the 2010 Snow Willow Saskatchewan Young Reader's Choice Award and for the 2010 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award
It is the year 2213. Fifteen-year-old Felix Taylor is the last person on Earth who can speak and read Latin. In a world where technology has defeated war, crime, poverty, and famine, and time travel exists as a distinct possibility, Felix's language skills and knowledge seem out of place and irrelevant.
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Dans ce recueil, l'auteure fait entendre sa voix o se mêlent imaginaire, rêve et réalité. Des mots qu'elle a voulu spontanés, palpitants de vie, d'amour, d'empathie, de doute et d'espoir, de douleur et de lumière , des mots écrits en toute simplicité pour susciter l'émotion chez le lecteur.

Short-listed for the 2012 Coast Reads Avi Greenbaum is Jewish and lives in West Jerusalem. Moussa Shakir is Palestinian and lives in East Jerusalem. Both are 15 years old, live without their fathers, adore their older brothers, and belong to the same soccer club. Avi commemorates the Holocaust and celebrates Israeli independence, while Moussa mourns on Nakba Day, marking the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. Their lives...

Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen's University in Kingston in the 1930's, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada's pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century. Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was the very epitome of the "man of letters," a term he...

Décryptez l'univers de Cervantès en moins d'une heure! Considéré comme l'un des plus grands écrivains espagnols de tous les temps, Cervantès a mené une vie à l'image de celle de ses héros. Faite de mille et une péripéties toutes plus rocambolesques les unes que les autres, son existence est fascinante! Secrétaire d'un cardinal, prisonnier de guerre, collecteur d'impts ou encore suspecté de meurtre, il a pour ainsi dire tout vécu. Malgré...

Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. In these books we explore Canada's literary heritage. Canadian letters have a prominent place in world literature, and its renown can be traced to authors such as these. Profiled are: pioneer chronicler of the wilderness Susanna Moodie, renowned novelist Robertson Davies, Quebec fiction writer Gabrielle Roy, and early twentieth century bestseller...

"Readers will shiver in fear and delight as they listen in on the story a father tells his son. And as they spot the clues in the playful illustrations, they'll soon see what's really going on in this funny bone-tickling thriller!"--Page [2] of cover.

"Spring is peeking through the frost in Virginia, and though the hunting season is coming to a close, the foxes seem determined to put the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club through their paces. Sister and her friends are enjoying some of the best chases they've had all season when the fun is cut short by the theft of Crawford Howard's treasured Sir Alfred Munnings painting of a woman in hunting attire riding sidesaddle. When another painting goes...