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Selon M. et Mme de Gerville, leur fille Giselle est sans conteste une enfant délicieuse, un amour d'enfant. Selon M. Tocambel, selon son oncle Pierre, ses tantes Noémi et Laurence, ses cousins Georges et Isabelle, selon Mme de Monclair ou Mlle Rondet, bref selon tous ceux qui ne sont pas ses parents,...

Benjamin is the youngest out of 7 children and does not always have an easy time asserting himself against his siblings. He also wants to be taken seriously. Benjamin is very happy when his father takes him with him to the camp to do a night walk. Benjamin is happy and walks beside Carl with his torch...

The Imagination Station Adventures continue! Patrick and Beth’s next adventure leads them to Plymouth Plantation in 1621. There they meet William Bradford, Miles Standish, and Chief Massasoit, who are trying to establish peace between the Pilgrims and the Indians. Things are anything but peaceful,...

Travel two centuries back in time to the final battle of the American Revolution at Yorktown, Virginia. Cousins Patrick and Beth sneak through trenches and race across battlefields to warn General George Washington about a dangerous spy. The spy is stealing his secret plans and giving them to the...

Patrick and Beth have escaped from volcano lava only to be separated again, and no one knows exactly where Beth has gone. Eugene and Patrick frantically try to fix the Imagination Station so they can find Beth, who unbeknownst to them has landed in the Amazon jungle. Will Patrick find Beth? Will Eugene...

If you’re brave, follow cousins Beth and Patrick to Libya in the 13th century. The town of Silene is being terrorized by a vicious animal that is eating livestock. The townspeople believe it’s a dragon sent by the devil. In order to appease the beast, the people believe they must offer a human...

“The Egyptians believe that whoever opens a tomb will be cursed!” The hot sun and sand of ancient Egypt await Patrick and Beth in their next Imagination Station adventure. The cousins are caught between a terrible ruler and a nation bound for slavery. To help their new friend Tabitha, the cousins...

Odyssey is a town filled with wonder, surprises, and even a hint of danger—as Mark Prescott, Jack Davis, and their friends learn in these four stories: Mark learns a new perspective about the people around him in Lights out at Camp What-a-Nut. The King’s Quest is an Imagination Station adventure...

Mark Prescott's not your typical 10-year-old kid. He has a best friend who's a girl, a mind that has to have answers, and a need to have things the way they used to be. Before it's all over, he learns priceless lessons about friendship, living with change, and the gift of forgiveness.

Kidsboro is a small town in the woods behind Whit’s End in Odyssey. It’s a nice little place. It has a church, a store, a police station, a bakery, a weekly newspaper . . . and a total of zero citizens over the age of 14. It’s a town run by kids. Ryan Cummings, the mayor, helps enforce the laws,...

Brothers Grimm: Cinderella Retold in Rhyme by Thomas Strong Seccombe There lived - so the story books say, long ago, I can't tell you where, for I really don't know - A sweet little maiden whose father and mother, On quitting this troublesome world for another, Had entrusted their small baby girl...

ONCE upon a time a nice little girl lived in a country village, and she was the sweetest creature that ever was seen ; her mother loved her with great fondness, and her grandmother doted on her still more. A pretty red-coloured hood had been made for the little girl, which so much became her, that every one called her Little Red Riding-Hood. ...

Patrick and Beth arrive in World War II Holland in the farm country. They must smuggle a baby (by bicycle) into the capable hands of Corrie ten Boom at her home in Haarlem. Along the way they hide from Nazi soliders, meet a Russian surgeon forced into service by the Germans, and encourage two Jewish...

July 16, 1833.--This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year! The Wandering Jew?--certainly not. More than eighteen centuries have passed over his head. In comparison with him, I am a very young Immortal. Am I, then, immortal? This is a question which...