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      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        July 2020

        What if tomorrow... the continuation!

        by Michel Piquemal

        Eleven short stories as striking as they are corrosive, showing the possible abuses of a world very close to ours - the world of tomorrow. What if tomorrow... humanity were to become stupid? What if tomorrow... we could spy on each other's private lives? What if tomorrow... money has an expiration date? What if tomorrow... our pets wear glasses? We grind our teeth, but always with humor. The whole thing brushes a future that looks like a misunderstanding of what is already a little bit of our worrying reality.

      • Children's & YA
        May 2020

        Perfect body

        by Vinciane Moeschler

        Anton loves Audrey and would like to save her from the anorexia that awaits her. They live in the same area of Belleville, but in two different worlds. Anton's father drives the subway. Audrey's mother is a reporter for the television news. The haikus written by the young girl weave together the unlikely story of a 16-year-old boy struggling at school and a brilliant student with an identity problem. Will they overcome their differences? Two voices. Two characters. Each with his or her own vision of the world.

      • Children's & YA
        February 2020

        Chameleon

        Here come the Aspie girls!

        by Christine Deroin,Gilles Martinez

        Alice is a teenager everyone has always described as high-potential without recognizing the depth of her discomfort. Moving and changing middle schools throws her for a loop, bringing out these aspects of her personality. Her admiration for Fanny, star of the class, and her desire to be like her just to be loved, will endanger her and send her world spinning. Asperger syndrome is rarely diagnosed in children, but doing so earlier would not only help teenage girls who have it thrive, but also those around them learn to accept it.

      • Children's & YA
        February 2020

        (Dis)connections

        Help, I’m a screen addict!

        by Christine Deroin,Alain Dervaux

        Meet Manon, champing at the bit to become a game designer. Enzo, addicted to network games and puzzle games, whose social discomfort causes him to identify with his avatars. And Clement, whose childhood dog has just died, prompting him to seek sympathy on social networks. Three very different teenagers whose different experiences illustrate the complexity and diversity of what is commonly known as screen addiction.

      • Children's & YA
        February 2020

        Black Friday

        by Christophe Léon

        Dresses and make-up. A new generation tablet. A new law on obsolescence. A small business not very legal. A lost Santa Claus in the heart of Africa. A well-fed child. "Black Friday" is six short stories of black humor to be consumed without moderation. But beware, this Black Friday will leave a bitter taste in your mouth: when hyperconsumption and perpetual promotions to the point of nausea reign, it is our planet that suffers from indigestion.

      • Children's & YA
        September 2019

        Phobia

        by Fanny Vandermeersch

        Sophia is a brilliant student. But when she arrived at the college, everything changed. Her grades drop, her friends abandon her, anxiety eats away at her. Until the day when she no longer feels capable of getting through the school gate. With the help of her parents and what is left of her friends, she will end up putting her problems into words: she suffers from school phobia. A novel that demystifies, invites sharing and exchange, on a subject that affects many teenagers today.

      • Children's & YA
        September 2018

        Dysfferent

        by Fanny Vandermeersch

        What a strange idea to call a child Charlemagne! Without this strange name, Charly is sure that he would be a child like any other... except for a few adjectives. He is said to be too distracted, dissipated, dispersed... to the great displeasure of the adults around him. And that often makes him the mockery of his classmates. Charlemagne is dyslexic, dysorthographic and dyspraxic. But who said that multi-dys children were good for nothing? Maybe it's a chance to be different!

      • Children's & YA
        May 2019

        I just wanted to be free

        by Claire Gratias

        Why did 16-year-old Manon, who has a reputation for exemplary behavior, run away from her house one June evening? Why did her mother wait so long before reporting her missing? Why hasn't her best friend Salome heard from her? And why doesn't Valentin want to reveal how far he has agreed to go in the name of love for Manon? If everyone shared what they knew, perhaps we would finally unravel the mystery of this strange disappearance and a young girl who just dreamed of being completely free to be herself.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2018

        I can hear them coming for us

        by Florence Cadier

        When Leo meets Leonore at his boxing class, it’s love at first sight. The day he turns 15, he makes up his mind to kiss her. Then a boy named Robin shows up at his party. Fine features, golden eyes... Bewitching Robin. Leo falls head over heels for him. But why, when an hour earlier, he only had eyes for Leonore? How can you get a boy’s attention when you’re afraid of what his family and friends think of you? How do accept your own powerful feelings? Then one day, Robin and Leo are victims of a homophobic assault...

      • Children's & YA
        June 2018

        Plastic apocalypse

        by Arthur Ténor

        Originally, Plastivorax was a breakthrough in biotechnology. It was going to enable us to treat all plastic waste on Earth without residue or pollution. On the flip side, its inventor would pocket billions of dollars. But we hadn't counted on "that fatal little detail." A detail that this apprentice sorcerer (who thought he had mastered everything, even the laws of nature) refused to see. The result: nothing less than the end of the world, well… as we know it.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        September 2020

        Peter the thief

        by Yves Frémion

        In his village, Peter mows down everything that attracts him. As the villagers know him, they will get their property back from him since he does not hide and always gives back. The inhabitants have adopted him as he is, and even the gendarmerie lets him. But, one day, things become more serious, and it is secondary residents who are robbed. This time, Peter denies the facts. A rural novel about benevolence, tolerance and solidarity, which is good for morale and restores meaning to the idea of humanism.

      • Children's & YA
        July 2020

        The flaw

        by Laëtitia Casado

        Mairead is 12 years old and has a lot of questions on his mind. Through the window, she observes the large factory at the end of the dike and the seagulls on the masts of the boats. Summer starts off rather well... until a stranger comes to question her about her family, a mysterious man-with-a-hat starts following her for no apparent reason, and she ventures onto a condemned industrial site. The young girl finds herself at the heart of a secret that plunges her into the most unspeakable meanders of nuclear energy...

      • Children's & YA
        May 2020

        This point you have to reach

        by Mireille Disdero

        Violette and Arnaud, 17-year-old high school students inseparable since the 7th grade, have a relationship that is constantly intensifying. They love each other. Life is beautiful... Violette, very active on the web, runs a literary forum and a blog where she expresses her passion for writing. But, after a party in Paris organized by the members of the forum, she is not the same anymore. Arnaud, who was not present at the party, is worried and wants to understand. What happened that night? And why can't she remember it?

      • Children's & YA
        February 2020

        Row row row your boat

        by Claire Mazard

        Marie-Bénédicte is 12 years old. For her birthday, her parents gave her a computer. To this computer, she will confide her terrible secret: for the past five months, every Wednesday afternoon, her uncle Laurent – her mother's younger brother, with whom she spent such a wonderful vacation as a child – has been sexually abusing her. She writes about her unhappiness, her suffering, her feelings of guilt, her discouragement in front of those around her who can't or won't see anything. But how to break the silence?

      • Children's & YA
        June 2018

        Under the stars

        by Éric Sanvoisin

        Yaëlle has a handicapped older brother, Pierrot. One morning, she offers to accompany him to school. Pierrot is thrilled: he has been dreaming of going to school for so long for normal people. But when people make fun of him, he loses all his means. So he runs away and wanders into the city, where he meets the Lady, who lives in the street and in a cardboard castle.

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