Lester Agency presents
Catalogue Fall 2018
Middle Grade & Young Adult
Table of Contents HIGHLIGHTS ............................................................................................... 2 MIDDLE GRADE ........................................................................................ 10 YOUNG ADULT ......................................................................................... 17 IMPORTANT TOPICS ................................................................................. 20 ROMANCE ............................................................................................... 21 REAL CHARACTERS .................................................................................. 26 FANTASY / SF / DYSTOPIA ....................................................................... 27 GEEK ......................................................................................................... 34 BESTSELLERS .............................................................................................. 36
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Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
HIGHLIGHTS Collective work
LES NEURONES ATOMIQUES (The Atomic Neurons)
ESCAPE BOOK series
Éditions 404, March 2018, about 280 p. each
Hurtubise, September 2018, 24 pages each, 8+
◊ Rights sold: Czech Republic, Germany, Bulgaria. ◊ Rights sold: Turkey (4 titles / Domingo Publishing, BKZ Yayıncılık). ◊ More than 15,000 copies sold (4 titles together) in Quebec!
A series of short illustrated nonfiction books that helps
younger
age
groups
to
understand
phenomenons both trivial and intriguing. Featuring friendly characters like Charlotte, Alice, Jules or Leon, The Atomic Neurons answer questions such as: Why is there rust on my bicycle? Why is my hair charged with static electricity? 6 topics now available : - Chemical Reactions - Static Electricity - The Water Cycle - The Air and the Atmosphere - The Electric Battery - Simple Machines
◊ A sharp logic, an analytic mind, a real sense of observation... there is no doubt: this is a great concept.
Based on Escape Games! These are adventure games in which a group of people is locked in a room with other participants and have to use elements of the room to solve a series of puzzles and clues to escape the room within a set time limit. 6 titles now available and more to come! - Prisoner Of The Dead - The Alchemist's Tower - Prisonner Of Overworld - Moriarty’s Trap - The Sign Of Cthulhu - Panic In Outer Space
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Betty Piccioli A.I. AMIS IMAGINAIRES (I.F. Imaginary Friends) Bragelonne, 45,000 words, 8+
◊ An ode to imagination full of wacky figures: a pink panda, a colourful pop singer, a dandy lion... ◊ An effective action novel with many plot twists and humour. ◊ An inventive and original tale, Toy Story meets Vice-Versa.
What if every child's imaginary friend suddenly came to life? Seven years ago, millions of weird creatures, the product of children’s imagination, materialised everywhere in the real world. Since then, twelve-year-old Elena has lived an entirely peaceful existence with her parents and her Imaginary Friend John, a stylish lion who quickly found his place in society. But one day, just as mysteriously as the IFs appeared, hordes of children start to disappear. When will it be Elena’s turn? The countdown begins. She and John decide to investigate, and they must work quickly. Using all sorts of gadgets and travelling around the world, they will confront villains straight out of their worst nightmares. But they'll soon discover that the whole scheme has been concocted by a gang of IFs who were rejected by humans when they first appeared... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Betty Piccioli was born in 1991 and as a proud member of the Harry Potter generation, she began her writing career as a teenager. But it was not until ten years later, when she had finished her political science studies, that she completed her first novel.
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Silène Edgar & Paul Beorn LES LOUPS-GAROUS DE THIERCELIEUX (The Werewolves of Millers Hollow) Bragelonne, 60,000 words, 10+
◊ A bestselling game everywhere: Germany, China, USA, UK, Spain… ◊ A fabulous tale of friendship and mystery that will captivate all readers. ◊ Aficionados of the game will delight in recognising the characters.
The official novel of the wildly successful mystery game that sold 2 million copies worldwide. In the village of Millers Hollow, the summer of 1846 is coming to an end and all seems well. But one night, Lune and her friends hear the mysterious call of the Red Moon and they follow a black wolf to an abandoned trunk, where they find wolf masks and a strange poem that speaks of revenge. Something awakens in them and the teenagers swear they will fight injustice by punishing the villagers who wronged them. Millers Hollow is thrown into a state of panic. At night, Lune puts on her disguise and gives free rein to her wild nature, while in daytime her best friend Lapsa investigates these incidents which strangely remind her of the mystery surrounding her father’s death years before. Then one night, a villager is killed, and the teens realise there once were Wolves in the village… ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Silène Edgar and Paul Beorn are the acclaimed authors of the middle-grade novel 14-14 (sold more than 80,000 copies in France and published in 12 countries), and they have both written several other successful and awarded YA and Fantasy novels.
Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc COMMENT DEVENIR UNE VRAIE SORCIÈRE (How To Become A Real Witch?)
Estelle Faye L’ÎLE AU MANOIR (The Manor Island)
Scrineo, October 2018, 120 pages, 8+
Scrineo, October 2018, 160 pages, 10+
◊ First title of a new collection by Cassandra O’Donnell, leading figure on the Juvenile publishing market (author of Malenfer, 75,000 copies sold; Le Monde secret de Sombreterre, translated and published in Italy; La Légende des 4...)
◊ Second title of the new by Cassandra O’Donnell.
◊ Ambitious stories (consistent characters, elaborate adventures, various subjects attuned to the world), accessible to the children’s reading levels.
◊ Author also published in Germany (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag), China, Greece.
A fun and bewitching story that makes fun of the evil witch myth! Sibelle is not an ordinary little witch. She’s beautiful, nice and has no evil powers. How could she become a real witch and please her mother, the famous witch Fleurkipic (Itchingflower)? With good friends and a couple of tricks, nothing is impossible! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc loves children, history, animals, dreaming of adventures and ... laughing! It's the reason she has been writing for a very long time historical novels, novels with animals, adventure novels and lots of funny novels!
◊ Ambitious stories (consistent characters, elaborate adventures, various subjects attuned to the world), accessible to the children’s reading levels
A surreal investigation between dream and magic, led by three children determined to uncover the truth. On a Winter night, on an island in the middle of the ocean, Adam sees a strange girl on the beach outside his house. A very pale girl with long wet hair, who looks like a drowned person. As he tries to help her, Adam finds himself taken into a dangerous quest, between present and past, reality and dream... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Estelle Faye is an actress and stage director. Today, she works mainly as an author and scriptwriter. She enjoys fantasy and adventure literature and writes historical fantasy (Porcelain, Elbakin.net Prize 2013), epic fantasy (The Lords of Bohen) and anticipation (A Shard of Frost). At Scrineo, she published The Path of the Oracles, a trilogy of historical fantasy for which she won the Imaginales Prize 2015 (youth category), the Elbakin.net Prize 2015 (youth category) and the ActuSF Prize of the Uchronie 2016. With Magellan's Clouds, she made her first foray into the worlds of space opera.
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Lise Syven À UN CHEVEU (By a Hair)
Anthony Combrexelle PRESQUE MINUIT (Almost Midnight)
Bragelonne, 78,000 words, 13+
Éditions 404, January 2018, 144 pages, 14+
◊ A delightful portrayal of a lovable loser that reads like a TV series.
◊ 2000 copies sold 3 weeks!
◊ Tackling the themes of harassment at school, lack of self-confidence, and accepting oneself
◊ A steampunk novel! A current hot genre which mixes the 19th -century industrial revolution atmosphere and fantasy.
◊ A story that promotes diversity through a poignant, dramatic and witty tale
◊ A huge community has grown around this theme, developed in cinema, literature, art and music.
Bald at 17, school pariah forever?...
◊ A unique setting which gathers influences of steampunk, urban fantasy, Japanese animation (Fullmetal Alchemist, Castle in the sky) and Amblin productions (The Goonies, Back to the future).
Matthéo is in his senior year of high school and is a totally normal boy… until premature baldness sets in. His life quickly becomes hell. Not only does he become the favourite target for bullies, but he also loses any hope of catching the eye of the beautiful Suraya.
Paris, 1889. Six orphans, one city in danger.
His cousin decides to help and makes him wear a wig, and that’s a win: he is suddenly entirely hot! But still, no way he’s going to wear the hairpiece at school and endure the inevitable mocking. He will wear it only on weekends for now.
6 orphans who live on the streets against their will and make a life by mugging and stealing are now on the run. When the Paris Universal exposition starts, they make a huge mistake: they steal the wrong object from the wrong people.
“Disguised” like this, Matthéo hopes he will get Suraya to notice him. But against all expectations, he attracts the attention of Léane, her flamboyant and often caustic friend, and starts going out with her.
It will lead them to the core of a secret magic world, where they will face up mythological creatures, witches and terrifying mechanical enemies in order to save their lives and the whole city!
Yet he will soon learn that juggling two lives can be like walking on a tightrope as fine as a strand of hair.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anthony Combrexelle is the winner of the 1st edition of the 404 Factory Award. A lover of video games, cinema and TV series, he is the author of short stories, a game designer, a scriptwriter, a graphic designer and illustrator. He has created, written and illustrated many role-play games for over 15 years.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lise Syven was born in 1978. She is fascinated by the universes of Star Wars, superheroes, dragons, spaceships, the 19th century and monsters, and is a founder of CoCyclics, a writers’ collective devoted to promoting fantasy literature.
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◊ A gripping teenage storyline!
Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Marie-Lorna Vaconsin LE PROJET STARPOINT (The Starpoint Project The Girl with Red Hair)
La belle Colère, March 2017, 376 pages, 13+
◊ A highly original, slightly steampunk, parallel universe, with echoes of the masters of fantasy that inspired the author (Pullman, C.S. Lewis). ◊ Heroes who are almost ordinary in their respective worlds of origin discover their own potential when they travel to the other side of the mirror. ◊ A race against time on the cusp between two worlds and with two goals: preventing a useless war and discovering the truth about the death of a loved one.
whereas the new pupil has quite a different look: she has red hair, always dresses in black – often in leather – and willingly slaps anyone whose attitude gets up her nose. Under her influence, Louise avoids her former friends, loses interest in her work and begins to play hooky. Pythagoras silently deplores the presence of this new pupil, who irritates and attracts him in equal measure – until she turns up at his house in the middle of the night to announce that Louise has disappeared. She explains that, to bring Louise back, they must pass through what she calls the ‘dead angle’ in mirrors. Pyth follows her, never suspecting that he is on the point of toppling into a parallel universe – the one in which Foresta was raised and where Louise is on the verge of losing herself forever. “The successful first volume of a dream-like fantasy trilogy.” Prima “A rich, compelling novel that whets our appetite to read the next two volumes of the trilogy.” Le Télégramme
◊ A lush, complex and well-constructed world that will appeal to everyone from young teens to adults.
A new door has just opened in the world of fantasy literature. Fans of His Dark Materials, pack your suitcases and set your compass, for, here is a universe worthy of Philip Pullman! Pythagoras Luchon is 15. He is about to start another predictable school year: working – a little; listening to music – a lot; hitting on girls – as much as humanly possible, especially at the next back-to-school party where he’ll be the DJ. He has no illusions about the jibes he’ll have to endure about his mother – a maths teacher at the school – nor of the sadness he feels during the trips to hospital to visit his father – a brilliant quantum physics researcher who is in a coma after being mugged. However, one thing does cheer him up: the idea of seeing his best friend, Louise, the daughter of the school caretaker. However, first day back at school, Pythagoras discovers that Louise has apparently decided to drop him as a friend. She’s linked up with a new pupil called Foresta Erivan, whose presence by her side is all the more intriguing as the two girls have nothing in common. Louise is a science and engineering geek, 7
HIGHLIGHTS
Marie-Lorna Vaconsin LE PROJET STARPOINT – TOME 2 LE RÉVEIL DES ADJINNS (The Starpoint Project – The Awakening Of The Adjinns) La Belle Colère, October 2018, 13+
and khâgne, then the highly esteemed Lycée Henri-IV), Marie-Lorna did not completely abandon her taste for parallel universes. When she wasn’t studying, it was through drawing that she clung to her memories by producing maps of clandestine continents, plans of multi-layer towns and sketches of new species of vegetation.
“This story about a high-school girl plunged into a parallel world cleverly blends suspense and fantasy. Far from clichés, the characters are appealing.” Le Parisien
◊ The third volume of the “Starpoint Project” will be published in 2019. ◊ An even-more exciting adventure on the cusp between two worlds that leads into the last volume. ◊ A highly original and slightly steampunk parallel world with touches of fantasy writers that have inspired the author (Pullman, C.S. Lewis). ◊ A lush, dense and well-composed world that will appeal to both teens and adults. ◊ The heroes are growing up and exploring their sexuality. Though finally out of his coma, Pythagoras’s father roams about as if in a trance. Pyth desperately seeks a means to save him, but a more urgent danger is threatening him: with Louise, they both have been forcibly enlisted by the Safe-Guards, who compel the two young people to carry out their dirty work for them. In Foresta’s world, the fight over the Sublittoral’s resources still rages and a new force appears in this already strained context. The Adjinns, a people of mixed race and blood capable of creating bridges between two dimensions, are rising up against their age-old enemies – the Safe-Guards. Caught in the middle of a conflict that goes far beyond them, Pyth and Louise find it more and more difficult to act as ordinary teenagers at school. To Pyth normality is all the more bitter as among the various chal- lenges he has to cope with, there’s one he can’t seem to overcome: he miss- es Foresta deeply, he has no idea where she is, in either of the two worlds. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Many children grow up with an imaginary friend. Marie-Lorna Vaconsin invented a universe where she escaped with her youngest sister. There, they experienced wonderful adventures with elaborate role-play. Many years later, during her prestigious studies (hypokhâgne
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Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Béatrice Bottet LE SECRET DE LA DAME EN ROUGE (The Secret of the Lady in Red)
Béatrice Bottet LA DAME EN ROUGE RÈGLE SES COMPTES (The Lady in Red Comes to Terms)
Scrinéo, April 2017, 352 pages, 13+
Scrineo, April 2018, 352 pages, 13+
◊ The double life of an independent and highly resourceful young woman, who frees herself from her family by becoming a mysterious fortune teller. ◊ A narrative that switches smoothly from the point of view of a fortuneteller to that of a journalist, introducing us to a truly authentic Paris. ◊ The two plot lines gradually come together… imperiling the heroes.
After the successful sagas PENELOPE GREEN and LE GRIMOIRE AU RUBIS (nearly 110,000 copies sold) Béatrice Bottet returns with a thrilling investigation set in magnificent 19th-century Paris, involving a strong lady and a beautiful love story. In the late 19th century, Paris is gleaming with the World’s Fair and the newly built Eiffel Tower. Violette Baudoyer arrives in the city after fleeing her family, who tried to force her into an unwanted marriage. She is taken in by Madam Bouteloup who teaches her to tell fortunes for wealthy society ladies and gentlemen. Florimond Valence is a journalist for the “Morning News” as well as an informer for police commissioner Aristide Barjoux. When the dead body of a woman is discovered in the Belleville neighborhood, Florimond needs to solve the case. That’s when he meets Violette... What does she have to do with the murder? Is she in danger? Can Florimond help her? An exciting adventure in the streets of late19th-century Paris, combining science and esotericism.
◊ A new, stand-alone adventure featuring the fortune-teller Violette Baudoyer up against her father, who wants to marry her off to wipe out his own debts. ◊ A strong and stubborn heroine, willing to do whatever it takes to win her freedom and assert herself as an independent woman. ◊ A fast-paced, action-packed novel that plunges us into 19th-century Paris and its esoteric salons.
After “The Secret of the Lady in Red”, here’s a new independent story about Violette in the 19th century beautiful Paris Violette is a young gifted and famous Fortuneteller in the chic neighborhoods of Paris. But she’s tired of being Mrs Bouteloup and Ernest’s toy, and wants to break free. One day, however, she’s kidnapped by her father’s henchmen, who never got over her departure. She’s now being kept prisoner in the family home. Madame Bouteloup, Ernest and Florimond are willing to find her, but all they know about Violette is her name... Also, Florimond is harassed by a so-called Fortune-teller who is actually a crook, and wants him to pay for her troubles. How is all this going to end? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Béatrice Bottet is passionate about history, fantasy and esotericism. She was a literature and history teacher. Now she writes novels for young adults but also graphic documentary novels. She was made famous with PÉNÉLOPE GREEN (Casterman, 20,000 copies sold) and LE GRIMOIRE AU RUBIS (Casterman, 110,000 copies sold).
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MIDDLE GRADE Rose-Line Brasset JULIETTE À HOLLYWOOD (Vol.9, Juliette in Hollywood)
Hurtubise, October 2018, 296 pages, 10+
◊ 370,000 copies sold!
Juliette is 13 years old and lives with her mother, a rather eccentric freelance journalist. In each volume, we follow Juliette as she accompanies her mom around the world, exploring the most idyllic and famous destinations. Hollywood, London, San Francisco, Rome, Québec, Paris, Amsterdam, Havana, Barcelona, New York ... Juliette’s adventures are only beginning! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rose-Line Brasset was born in Alma, Quebec. A journalist and researcher, she holds an MA in Literary Studies. Her work has been widely published in newspapers and magazines. The Juliette series has sold over 350,000 copies across Quebec and Europe.
Rose-Line Brasset JULIETTE À SAN FRANCISCO (Vol. 8 Juliette in San Francisco) Hurtubise, September 2017, 272 pages, 10+
◊ An English excerpt is available. ◊ Rights sold: French, Dutch (Kennes).
Juliette is 13 and lives with her mother, a rather eccentric freelance journalist. Each volume follows Juliette as she accompanies her mother to a new destination where her job is to write articles and travel guides. For her 8th expedition, Juliette is off to San Francisco! She and her mother are invited to the wedding of a distant cousin. But there are too many unanswered questions surrounding the trip, so Juliette and her BFFs decide to investigate before she leaves. Little by little, the mystery surrounding her father deepens. As she and her cousin visit one spectacular place after another, Juliette will continue researching the father she never knew. An emotional rollercoaster! Previous titles: Volume 1 – Juliette à New York, 240 pages, 2014 Volume 2 - Juliette à Barcelone, 232 pages, 2014 Volume 3 - Juliette à La Havane, 304 pages, 2015 Volume 4 - Juliette à Amsterdam, 264 pages, 2015 Volume 5 - Juliette à Paris, 268 pages, 2016 Volume 6 - Juliette à Québec, 248 pages, 2016 Volume 7 - Juliette à Rome, 248 pages, 2017
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Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Sophie Laroche ÉCHANGE PETIT FRÈRE c/ POISSON ROUGE (Swap Little Brother for Goldfish)
Isabelle Neveux HANNAH ET GRAND PA (Hannah and Granpa)
Hachette Romans, January 2018, 128 p., 7+
Hachette Romans, May 2018, 96 pages, 7+
◊ Sophie Laroche, sold over 10,000 copies of her previous series CAMILLE ET CIE.
◊ A delicate subject: the death of a grandparent.
◊ The theme of the acceptance of the little brother or the little sister shown in an original and funny way. ◊ Humorous illustrations for this mini novel for 7-9 year olds.
Louison can’t say that she hates her little brother: she knows that she does not have the right, that brothers and sisters must love each other for life ... but boy he is unbearable! At home, no one understands it: her mother could write the book of "1001 Reasons why brothers bother their sisters", and her father, champion of the world of business and records, does not yet want to take care of the " little brother case ". Louison has to settle things alone: she does not have the right to hate her brother, but it has not been officially forbidden to exchange him... against a goldfish, for example! So she just need to make an announcement, and everything will be settled. Well almost…
◊ The author focuses on happy thoughts and brings a life lesson, easy to grasp.
7-year-old Hannah loves spending her holidays with her grandparents, Grand Pa and Manette. A touching story on grief. She finds her cousins, Tom and Lorette, and the life becomes grandiose: Manette’s tasty chouquettes, the great disguises which fill the coffers of Grand-Pa and the long afternoons to play with turtles Pepito and Pepita, rather resistant to the parachute jump they were offered! In this holiday home, children and adults are just passing through... But the memories that Hannah creates for them, they will never pass. In her heart, the moments spent with Grand Pa and his life lessons full of love will remain engraved forever.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sophie Laroche was born in 1970. She studied journalism in Paris and worked for the print media. From 2004 to 2006, she moved with her family in Germany, where she began writing, fulfilling her childhood dream. Today, she devotes most of her time to writing novels and meetings with young readers. She wrote several successful awarded children’s books, including LES ENQUETES D’ANATOLE BRISTOL (85,000 copies sold).
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Nadia Coste MA PIRE SEMAINE DE VACANCES (My Disastrous Holiday)
Safari Go! LE CODE DES RANGERS (The Rangers’ Code)
Bragelonne, April 2018, 55,000 words, 9+
Bragelonne, January 2018, 44,000 words, 9+
◊ A thrilling standalone investigation, full of humour and action.
◊ A fun and educational guide aimed at young readers (8 +).
◊ A story tinged with fantasy but with very contemporary and realistic themes: ecology, GMOs, multinational firms.
◊ Excitement, a sense of adventure and a thirst for discovery combined with curiosity and respect for nature.
◊ Helps young readers become more media-savvy and discerning about the value of information on the internet.
A dream holiday in the country? Not if nature suddenly goes crazy! Lea really does not like bugs. For good reason whenever there’s a mosquito around it will always be her who gets stung. This year her holidays at her cousins’ house in the country are worse than ever because the wasps and all the other insects are now as big as golf balls! She and her cousin Max soon discover that there are lots of other strange things going on too: dead fish float down the river, cows keel over unconscious in the meadows, a ferocious rat terrifies the girls… Soon there are so many weird things happening that the whole village is forced to pull together to face up to the danger. But who or what has turned nature upside down? Lea decides to investigate. She soon hones in on the shenanigans of a big agricultural firm that is blithely polluting the land. She must stop it before it makes nature go completely crazy! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nadia Coste was born in 1979 near Lyon, where she still lives with her husband and three children. She has written twenty novels for children, teenagers, and adults, and has won many prizes, among them the Prix des Incorruptibles, Prix des Lycéens des Futuriales, and the Prix Jeunesse de Lire en Poche.
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◊ A richly illustrated book, with more than 150 photos and dozens of original illustrations. ◊ The official book of the major new family TV programme about to be broadcast the world over.
The essential guide for every budding adventurer with a passion for the wild. A book that entertains and educates both young and old about the fragile ecological balance of Africa’s flora and fauna. It offers advice on how to preserve nature reserves and provides a guide on how to survive in the savannah. All this plus a wealth of information on wild animals. Monkeys, birds, large mammals or tiny insects – you will soon know all their secrets! Their social life, eating habits, how they reproduce, hunting grounds, predators, tracks and camouflage – all will be revealed. The reader will also be treated to a host of astonishing but true anecdotes. Young adventurers will get lots of useful advice laced with plenty of humour: how to make a paw print mould, how to pack your backpack, how to track an animal, how to find your way without a compass, how to build a hut, how to escape from a lion, a hippo or a crocodile… Youngsters will also find out all about topical issues such as poaching and threatened, vulnerable, and critically endangered species. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Anne Pouget MA VIE DE MONSTRE (My Life as a Monster)
Paul Beorn UN OGRE EN CAVALE (Ogre on the Run)
Scrineo, February 2018, 208 pages 9+
Bragelonne, March 2016, 288 pages, 9+
◊ Long-listed for the Prix du meilleur roman historique jeunesse 2019.
◊ An engaging main character in which numerous young girls can identify.
◊ The true story that inspired The Beauty and the Beast!
◊ A novel which broaches subjects like the lack of self-confidence, bullying and first love.
◊ A teen with a rare disease, whose encounters with several historical figures (including Catherine de Medici and Michel de Montaigne) will help her learn to accept her difference. ◊ The author really brings the heroine to life, giving her a deeply multidimensional humanity that goes beyond the legend. ◊ The story that inspired Beauty and the Beast, revisited for young readers.
Did you know that The Beauty and the Beast was a true story? At the time of Catherine de Médicis and Henri III, Tognina, 12, suffers from hypertrichosis: her body and face are completely covered with hair. People call her “the monkey girl”. Even though her family lives in a palace, what she wants more than anything is just to be a normal person, not treated like a circus freak by the queen anymore... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anne Pouget spent her childhood in eastern France before becoming a childcare worker and then starting to write. In 1994, she won the best children’s novel award with Le Fabuleux voyage de Benjamin. She also won a prize for Brisorgueil that year. Passionate about medieval History, Anne Pouget also leads writing workshops. She often visits schools and book fairs, where she meets her fans with pleasure.
◊ A gripping race around the most iconic places of Paris: Notre Dame, the Louvres, Place Vendome…
Being the last person on Earth to believe in magic is not particularly relaxing, Jeanne can't say otherwise... While she's at the hospital, in the coma, a rude, terrifying and extremely repugnant ogre slips into her room, steals her heart and runs away, destroying everything in his path. Then, a man dressed as a musketeer and a talking cat use her body as a gate to enter her world and go into search of the monster without thanking her or even showing her any sign of gratitude. Jeanne's chances of survival are tiny, but staying at the hospital waiting for her death is not an option. Despite the danger, this combative and determined girl enters an epic chase against the ogre to get her heart back, at all costs. On this terrific adventure, she teams up with the cat, which appears to be an attractive teenage boy able to shift shape. When she retrieves her heart, she can't hide her feelings for the young man anymore and she leaves everything behind to follow him in his world. A thrilling novel, playing with references from the fantastic and adventure genres, comical situations and surprising twists and turns. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Beorn has already written several adult fantasy, YA and middle-grade novels which have earned him numerous awards. He published 14-14, awarded by the Prix Gulli.
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Silène Edgar 42 JOURS (42 Days)
Silène Edgar LES LETTRES VOLÉES (Stolen Letters)
Bragelonne, June 2017, 320 pages, 10+
Bragelonne, May 2016, 300 pages, 10+
◊ Rights sold in: Czech Republic (ALbatros Media/Cooboo). ◊ Two children who see their lives overturned and their childhood come to an abrupt end in the space of just 42 days. ◊ A gripping story that draws us into the mindset and thoughts of a 12-yearold boy who is totally unaware of the dangers of war. ◊ The new novel by the author of the international success and multiawarded 14-14 (sold into 10 languages).
A poignant historical novel about the lives of two French children during the Occupation and how their parents protected them. Sasha, 12, and his little brother Jacob are surprised and pleased to be leaving on vacation earlier than planned, before the school year is even over! The two boys are pleased to be going to stay at their uncle’s boarding house, by the sea in Brittany. But when they get there, it’s not at all the summer camp they had imagined it would be – the boarders are all strange, and at night, their uncle seems to be involved in suspicious activities involving people who speak a different language… After a few days, Sasha realizes that France is at war. It is the summer of ’42, and it is because their mother is Jewish that the boys have been sent away. Despite the dangers, their parents are able to join them. Not all the children they know will be so lucky… ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Silène Edgar teaches French and runs a website for middle school teachers. She is also the author of several novels for middle-school and young adult readers.
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◊ A dive into the childhood of a famous character surrounded by major figures who have left their mark on history. ◊ Excerpts from the letters give rhythm to the narrative. ◊ An exceptional and fascinating context: the famous château de Vaux-le-Vicomte and French court life during the 17th-century.
Under the Sun King, one teenage girl’s search for identity in the merciless world of nobility Françoise is the daughter of the Marquise de Sévigné, whose thinking and prose have enchanted the French court. The young woman has been invited to her first dinner with nobles, where she must dazzle everyone with both her vivacity and beauty. Intimidated by the idea of meeting Jean de la Fontaine and Madame de La Fayette, the young girl commits a faux-pas. Furious, her mother is prepared to instil in her once again all the rules of morality and good manners. What rotten luck! But when she is sent to the château of the famous Fouquet, she is given the opportunity to make her start in the world. She will also learn that her perfect mother is hiding a secret that must be kept under wraps at all costs. Navigating her way through malicious gossip, scheming, and compliments with double meanings, the young de Sévigné will lead an investigation and find the traces of a compromising paper that might prove the existence of a liaison between her mother and Fouquet... Could he be Françoise’s secret father? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Silène Edgar teaches French and runs a website for middle school teachers. She was awarded the Prix Gulli 2014 for best novel, along with her accomplice Paul Beorn, for the middle-grade novel 14-14.
Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Gally Lauteur LES MIAMS – AMITIÉS MANDARINE (Yummies – Tangerine Friendship)
Gally Lauteur LES MIAMS – SECRET SODA (Yummies – Fizzy Secret)
Hachette Romans, May, 2017, 112 pages, 9+
Hachette Romans, May, 2017, 112 pages, 9+
Four stories, four colors, four flavors: a fresh and tangy series! Four stories that can be read separately in disorder, and yet stories subtly cross and overflow. The Miams are also four endearing heroes: Mounia the
Sohan is thirteen years old, has friends at the football club, and an uncle who helps her in all her problems. When friendship and love are as sparkling as her favorite soda, how to keep all secrets in the bottle?
coquette, Emilie the dreamer, Sohan the sportsman and Juliette the timid! A college, four friends, infinite stories! Emilie is twelve. She has two best friends she loves, a half-sister and a blended family. When one is convinced that friendship is more important than anything, how can one accept the feelings of others? What if love were as sweet as a tangerine?
Gally Lauteur LES MIAMS – AMOUR TOMATE (Yummies – Tomatoe Love)
Gally Lauteur LES MIAMS – FOLIE FRAISE (Yummies – Strawberry Crazy)
Hachette Romans, May, 2017, 112 pages, 9+
Hachette Romans, May, 2017, 112 pages, 10 +
Juliette is twelve years old and she blushes so much that she is nicknamed “Tomato”. When one is shy, how to investigate a mysterious secret lover? Fortunately, there are her best girlfriends Emilie and Mounia who are there to help her.
Mounia is twelve years old, has two best friends and a passion for hairdressing. When one dreams of putting some magic into school life, can one help everyone and even meet prince charming?
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MIDDLE GRADE
Sophie Laroche 6 POTES EN 3E (6 Friends In Ninth Grade)
Sophie Laroche 6 POTES POUR TOUJOURS (6 Friends Forever)
Hachette Romans, 2015, 304 pages, 10+
Hachette Romans, 2017, 256 pages, 10+
◊ A highly realistic and touching trilogy about friendship and growing-up. ◊ Readers will grow-up with their favorite characters and experience the same challenges and changes as years go by, from pre-teenage years to adult life. Alie, Lea, Mazo, Beverly, Solal and Louis are ready for their last year in ninth grade. They have known each other since the beginning of middle school and are the best friends in the world. But this year some drama happens as they are split into different classes. They experience it as a disaster because they always say everything, share the same activities and help each other for homework. Will they be able to resist this separation and the arrival of new friends in the group?
Sophie Laroche 6 POTES EN 2DE (6 Friends In Tenth Grade)
Hachette Romans, 2016, 336 pages, 10+
Ninth grade is over, exams over too, and middle shool is behind. After a summer vacation rich in twists and turns, it is time to enter high shcool. Alie, Léa, Mazo, Beverly, Solal and Louis meet together in tenth grade. Together? Almost. Louis has to move out of the city to go to boarding school, but he has a plan not to go more than two weeks maximum. As for the others, they are not all in the same class... At an age when stories of the heart are transformed into stories of love, where kisses become more serious, the six pals will need to to find time to tell each other how they feel. 16
It’s the end of the first year college for the six pals, now scattered all over France and elsewhere. When their friendship began, they were barely teenagers. It was several years ago... Their old memories left place to desires and concerns that they would never have suspected they’d have. Yet each one of them agreed to spend the weekend together in Boulogne-sur-Mer, as before or not?
Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
YOUNG ADULT Amélie Panneton COMME UNE CHALEUR DE FEU DE CAMP (Like the Heat of a Campfire)
Hurtubise, September 2017, 306 pages, 12+
◊ An educational booklet is available for teachers who which to study the book in class. ◊ A sensitive novels set in a sportive background that deals with contemporary issues: consent, sexual assault, contraception, friendship, first love.
At fifteen, Emmanuelle avoids small talk like the plague and only feels comfortable underwater, at swim practice, where no one notices how shy she is. Her life suddenly takes on new meaning and music when she meets Thomas, her new neighbour. Slowly, the two get to know each other better as they spend mornings sharing a seat and a pair of headphones and nights gazing up at the stars around the campfire. But everything changes the day Emmanuelle witnesses a shocking scene— one that will ripple through her life and upend her relationship with Thomas. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amélie Panneton works in Montreal’s community sector. She likes to write stories and knit wool socks. Like the Heat of a Campfire is her first novel aimed for teenagers.
Anne Plichota & Cendrine Wolf LES 5/5 vol 1 & 2 (The Modern Robin Hoods) XO, 2017- 2018, 286 pages, 13+
◊ Partial English translation available ◊ The authors already published the worldwide successful Oksa Pollock series. ◊ In this new fast-paced series they touch on themes that are dear to them: identity, tolerance, fraternity and relationships with others.
Five teenagers all fans of skateboarding and rollerblading reunited against social and cultural injustices. Far is 16 years old, she is a gifted young woman torn between two cultures. Merlin and Titus, twins, have dropped out of school. they are 17 and instability is part of their everyday life. Tom, 13 years old, acrobat, solitary and rebellious, lacks for nothing except his father’s esteem. And finally John, the youngest at 12 years of age, is a boy born into a girl’s body, pampered by his parents but misunderstood by the rest of the world. They all have something to prove, a wound to heal. They will come together thanks their shared passion, street sports, and they will engage in the same quest: justice. 5/5 turns into a clan and progressively transforms them into Robin Hoods of the city. Soon the five teens are going make life difficult for all unscrupulous profiteers... without the slightest suspicion of the dangers that await them... An essential novel that will adress to all the teenagers.
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YOUNG ADULT
Luc Blanvillain L’INCROYABLE VOYAGE DE M. FOGG (The Incredible Journey of Mr Fogg)
Luc Blanvillain LE MONDE SELON WALDEN (The World According To Walden)
Hachette Romans, June 2017, 256 pages, 15+
Scrineo, October 2016, 160 pages, 13+
◊ A poetical and optimistic road trip filled with emotion, discoveries and increased self-awareness. ◊ A trio of teens who will do whatever it takes to cheer their favorite teacher up and to give back some of the emotional support that he has been giving them. ◊ A novel that makes you want to go out and read some of the many books that are referred to in it.
The adventures of three teens and their French teacher, who have gone on vacation together. Simon, Nora, and David witnessed the scene when Mr. Fogg and his wife broke up, and, feeling sorry for their teacher, they decided to distract him from his troubles They came up with an unlikely tale: David has fallen madly in love with a girl who has told him where she is spending her vacation. Mr. Fogg takes the bait and agrees to drive them. The teacher takes advantage of their road trip to show them lots of extraordinary places and to introduce them to his favorite authors. By the end of the book, everyone has gone their separate ways: Nora is on her own, and Simon is still with Salomé. But Nora is still in love with Simon, and she later hears from Mr. Fogg that Salomé has left him for someone else. It becomes clear that Nora and Simon will get back together, just like Mr. Fogg and his wife have. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Passionate about reading Luc Blanvillain is a professor of literature and the author of mainly children’s and young-adult novels.
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◊ Walden: an eccentric and endearing teenager who stands for a positive and empowering image of being different. ◊ A story about the influence and risks of social networks and the star system.
◊ A tale intertwining atypical
characters, exceptional situations and lessons in self-confidence.
In a world where being different is often not accepted, Walden will become an internet star and a role model. Walden is not your average teen. He likes axolotls and wears the strangest clothes; his girlfriend is hardly model material, and his best best friend chases intra-terrestrials. All of which means that he’s not exactly the most popular boy in school, but he’s happy. His classmates sometimes try to bully him, but he has an unbeatable response: he sings an opera aria. One day, a schoolmate films one of those bizarre scenes and posts it on line, where it goes viral. A former child star whose fame is fading takes Walden under his wing, turning him into a teen idol. Walden becomes THE person to follow and to try to be like. Overwhelmed by his sudden fame, Walden attempts awkwardly to use it to do good: to help save the planet and to make a world closer to his own image. But when he attracts on-line enemies, the situation soon spins out of control. The life of the girl he loves is at risk. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Passionate about reading Luc Blanvillain is a professor of literature and the author of mainly children’s and young-adult novels.
Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Yann Rambaud JESSIE DES TÉNÈBRES (Jessie from the Darkness)
Yann Rambaud GASPARD DES PROFONDEURS (Gaspard From The Depths)
Hachette Romans, August 2016, 13+
Hachette Romans, 2014, 340 pages, 13+
◊ An adopted teenage girl experiences a crisis of identity and looks for her origins. ◊ A surprising and moving novel.
Jessie is 14. She is having nightmares. Each night, she goes back to a house plunged into darkness. Every room conceals dreadful secrets, the key to her inner self, and every door, every riddle, every trial sheds some light on the mystery of her origins. During the day, she lives other kinds of nightmares. Fully awake, she suffers from the cruel jokes and mockery of her classmates. And ever since she found out that her father and mother are not her natural parents, she cannot help but wonder… Who was that woman who gave birth to her? Why didn’t she want to keep and care for her little Jessie? Fortunately, puncturing Jessie’s darkness, there are also a few dazzling lights. There is Alice, a spontaneous and cheerful teenager who drags her every Wednesday through the most ridiculous ‘loonyness’, to the heart of an enchanted forest where moles give you your sight back and frogs know how to count. And then there is Gaspard, a boy who fascinates her and stirs up her very first feelings of love… ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Yann Rambaud is an educator who spent many years caring for children in difficult circumstances. A few years ago, he decided to start looking after adults with mental disabilities instead. He still does this to this day, and lives with his wife and his three children near Grenoble. He also was a singer- songwriter for the French poprock group Staël for 12 years.
◊ A mix between a coming-of-age novel, a family saga and an adventure tale, this novel marks the birth of a new talent.
A unique story, unprecedented in youth literature, which recounts the quest for a father and the conquest of oneself. 13-year-old Gaspard dreams… He dreams that his father comes back, because it has been many weeks since he hasn’t returned home. So Gaspard decides to leave, without telling his mother who is very sad. However, Gaspard doesn’t leave on his own. On the road, he meets a travel companion – Honoré – who quickly becomes a friend, like a double-for-life. And there is also another companion: this bit of music, the sound of which makes Gaspard sink into a parallel world of dreams and nightmares every night. That space is like his other self, with which Gaspard rubs shoulders, with which he will approach all his fears, until the last one. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Yann Rambaud is an educator who spent many years caring for children in difficult circumstances. A few years ago, he decided to start looking after adults with mental disabilities instead. He still does this to this day, and lives with his wife and his three children near Grenoble. He also was a singer- songwriter for the French poprock group Staël for 12 years.
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IMPORTANT TOPICS
IMPORTANT TOPICS Maureen Wingrove (aka Diglee) MÉMOIRES D’UNE JEUNE GUENON (Memoirs Of A Deranged Young Gorilla 1)
Melissa Bellevigne PARANOIAS
Hachette Romans, March 2016, 320 ^., 13+
Michel Lafon, October 2017, 300 pages, 13+
◊ An impressive debut novel with truly powerful writing. ◊ A revelation in teenage fiction! ◊ The French Fab Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison. ◊ The first in a three-volume series starring a funny, touching and off-thewall heroine. Cléopatre is 14 years old, has three cats and divorced parents (a publisher mother constantly on her case and an unemployed English father) and a little sister who loves seals. She is regularly on the receiving end of taunts delivered by someone she is secretly interested in: Clément M, the most sadistic but also most attrac- tive guy at school. To top it all, she is so hairy she bears more relationship to a female gorilla than a human. Fortunately, her BFF Chloé is there to organise tele- phone pranks and other spying missions in the gar- den, thereby taking her mind of her existential crises (such as her acquisition of braces JUST before the Halloween party). This year, however, two newbies show up in class 4C... And they may well change Cléo’s life. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Internet phenomenon Maureen Wingrove alias Diglee, 28, is a celebrated blogger and inspired illustrator. Having studied art in Lyon, she created her blog in 2007, based on humorous anecdotes about her daily life, the content of which was later published in two volumes as a comic strip (Autobiographie d’une fille gaga and Confessions d’une glitter addict). Mémoires d’une jeune guenon dérangée is the opening volume of her first youth series.
◊ The tale includes psychological drama, a love story and fantastique horror. ◊ A huge fan base that has already been won over to her writing.
One woman is the only person who sees him. The other is the only one who believes her. Lisa Hermest is a well-known psychiatrist who specializes in complicated cases. She has been called to St Vincent’s Clinic, on the outskirts of Paris. She is going to meet her next patient, Judy Desforêt, who has been committed there for paranoia and hallucinations. She is five months pregnant, and has been refusing to eat. From the very first encounter, the composed young woman facing Lisa displays exceptional lucidity and discernment. And the more Lisa gets to know Judy, the more their conversations will rock the foundations of Lisa’s personal and professional convictions. Indeed, conversation after conversation, Judy weaves a curious tale, both about her search for her roots, in England, and about Alwyn, an invisible young man who has been stuck to her like a shadow for as long as she can remember. Lisa, the expert in lost souls, starts to lose grip, as Judy’s unsettling story gradually undermines everything she knows. As the month’s go by and Judy’s due date comes nearer, truth seems to be slipping ever further from Lisa’s grasp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Melissa Bellevigne began to write at a very young age. She wrote the incipit of Paranoia in 2009 when she was only 19 years old. Today, Melissa juggles between her jobs as a mother, blogger and a novelist, for her greatest pleasure.
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Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
ROMANCE Morgane Bicail NE T’ATTACHE PAS (Don’t Get Involved)
Michel Lafon, November 2017, 308 pages
Camille Pujol LE JOURNAL D’UNE ÂME RÉVEUSE (Diary Of A Dreamer)
Michel Lafon, January 2018, 304 pages
A Whirlwind Love Affair.
On the last day of the summer holidays, Adelaïde
Sixteen-year-old Alexie Browner leads a quiet and ordered life. Unlike her neighbour, the seductive and enigmatic Jérémy, who embraces every risk and challenge with gusto. Driving at breakneck speed through the town centre, he introduces his new friend to an adrenalin rush that is a million miles from her usual teenage preoccupations.
midnight. The letter holds the key to a postal box, and
His expectations do not end there: he also wants her to become his new co-pilot who will accompany him on his craziest challenges. Is there any future for this dangerous relationship that has to remain secret and which is overshadowed by Jérémy’s stubborn silence about his previous co-pilot? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Morgane Bicail, 17, became known through Wattpad where her stories have been read several million times. Her first novel, PHONEPLAY, was a 2016 publishing phenomenon with over 60,000 copies sold (rights sold in Italy).
hands a letter to Noah, not to be opened before a message: she is leaving and will not see him again. In the postal box, Noah finds Adelaide’s diary, the key to her dreams her hopes, but also to the dramatic secret behind her sudden departure. Adelaide has lied. She hasn’t left to pursue her dream of being a dancer. She is in hospital,and receiving treatment for an illness that may prove incurable. But Noah hasn’t said his last word. He is determined to show her that together they can make a dream come true, even if it could be the last one. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Camille Pujol, is a 16 years old passionate reader and writer. She has made a name for herself on the self-publishing site Wattpad where she has 50.000 followers. Her début novel BLUE was published by Michel Lafon in 2017.
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ROMANCE
Catherine Kalengula PICK-UP LOVE
Hachette Romans, 2012, 224 pages, 13+
Catherine Kalengula London Fashion (2 titles)
Hachette Romans, 2008, 240 & 216 pages, 13+
A genuine, light-hearted novel about a true friendship
◊ A talented heroine.
and a holiday fling. A unique layout includes recipes,
◊ A spark of madness.
postcards and emails to express what long sentences
◊ A trendy city.
cannot always say.
◊ Complicated love stories.
Every summer, Judith visits her aunt in Ireland with her childhood friends, Chloé and Melvil. But this year, a storm is brewing.
◊ Mix all of these and you will have two sweet and spicy novels, directed by Catherine Kalengula, an author with a tone both fresh and sharp!
At the last minute, Melvil decides not to come. Chloé acts so sullen and cold that she might as well not be there. And to make matters worse, Judith has to go to work every morning at the local coffee shop. One thing is certain: this will be the worst summer of their lives. Afterwards, nothing will ever be the same. And that strange boy with his rusty old pick-up is not about to convince Judith otherwise…
The Stylish Diary of a Fashion Addict Savannah, 14, moves to London with her mother who has decided to change her life. Savannah’s dreams come true in this city where fashion is just like tea: an institution! For Savannah wants to become a stylist. With her talent, her sturdy character and her two new friends, Savannah sets out to conquer the catwalks! Between her job as a stylist assistant, her new boyfriend and her friends, Savannah does not know which way to turn.
The (Even More) Stylish Diary of a Fashion Addict Fashion, love and small worries: Samantha won’t have the time to be bored in the city where everything is possible!
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Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Sarah-Maude Beauchesne COEUR DE SLUSH (Slush Heart)
over her first breakup and do a little bit of window
Hurtubise, October 2014, 224 pages, 14+
But how can she forget about Pierre and his deep-swimming-pool-dark-blue eyes? She wishes for little rebellions, boys with hair of all kind of colours – except maybe bright blond – in the middle of urban adventures.
shopping.
Sarah-Maude Beauchesne MAXIME Hurtubise, August 2017, 244 pages, 14+ ◊ English excerpt available. ◊ 20,000 copies sold. ◊ Rights sold: French (Kennes éditions) ◊ Movie rights sold to Cristal Films. ◊ Audio rights (Audible). ◊ A novel that stays faithful to the reality of teenagers in its subject matter, form, and narrative. ◊ A dazzling story; naïve, often funny, but also tender and sad.
Billie is charmed by Pierre: a suburban story of summer love in the middle of a heat wave; a story of discovery, intimacy, new desires and blind passion. It’s all ripped jeans and parties, root beer flavor lip gloss, french fries and hearts in ketchup on the bottom of the plate. Slushy Heart is also and above all a tale of the pursuit of love and the attempt to understand a larger-than-life guy. Because at seventeen, loving a boy is the greatest of dramas.
Sarah-Maude Beauchesne LÈCHE VITRINES (Window Shopper)
Hurtubise, February 2016, 224 pages, 14+
After a summer spent serving gooey grilled cheeses at Chez Fromage res- taurant, Billie moves into her first grownup apartment with Rosine. She still thinks about Pierre, the cycling whiz, and Erik, the skateboarding sweetheart, but she is learning to appreciate being on her own. Growing stronger each day, she is less vulnerable when it comes to locking eyes with boys. Billie will steal kisses from a singer who’s a bit too melancholy for her taste, try her best to take care of her eternally sad big sister Annette, and navigate the bumps in the road that still rattle her fragile family... Then there’s Maxime. And a pack of boys, a party Jeep, a midnight swim, a red carpet, a laundromat romance, Chinese food, and... love. Real, true love. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sarah-Maude Beauchesne lives in Montreal with her cat Audrey. She has a fondness for complicated love stories, which she writes almost every day. Maxime, concludes the trilogy begun with Slush Heart and Window Shopper, two novels that became quick bestsellers.
◊ 12,000 copies sold! ◊ Rights sold : French (Kennes éditions). ◊ Audio rights (Audible) .
A year later, Billie moves to Montreal with her older sister Annette and their mom, who just got back from a long trip. For her 18th birthday, Billie wants to get 23
ROMANCE
Maxence Fermine LE SYNDROME DU PAPILLON (The butterfly syndrome)
Luc Blanvillain DANS LE COEUR D’ALICE (Alice’s Heart)
Michel Lafon, October 2016, 288 pages, 15+
Hachette, November 2013, 448 pages, 15+
◊ The success of the first of Maxence Fermine’s children’s trilogy, LA PETITE MARCHANDE DE RÊVES, which received critical acclaim from reviewers and young readers alike, with over 30,000 copies (three volumes) sold in hardback and 15,000 in paperback! ◊ A contemporary romance that will delight John Green fans.
Hugo Mars, 17, is a teenager with a difference. Afflicted by a strange condition, the butterfly syndrome – a neurological disorder that means he cannot make choices – he is committed to a psychiatric hospital after a severe episode of depression. But life is sometimes surprising. Because it is in this establishment with its difficult reputation that he has the most beautiful meeting of his life. With the flamboyant, outlandish Morgane Saint James, a girl with red hair and piercing green eyes who is interested only in geniuses. Hugo immediately falls under her charm and thanks to her gradually regains his love of live. However, she suddenly leaves the hospital one day without leaving a forwarding address. Hugo decides to find her, whatever the cost and there then follows a mad odyssey through Paris in search of this wild flower that has tamed his heart. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Maxence Fermine is the author of the cult book NEIGE and the children’s trilogy LA PETITE MARCHANDE DE RÊVES, LA POUPÉE DE PORCELAINE and LA FÉE DES GLACES. Le Syndrome du papillon, his first book for teenagers, is an out-ofthe-ordinary love story featuring two characters who have been battered by life.
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Reminiscent of the international best-seller Ensemble
c’est tout, by Anna Gavalda, a sensible and intelligent comedy written with humor and a dynamic, lively style. There are a lot of people in 17-year-old Alice’s heart. First off, there’s her mother Sylvaine (Sy), who passed away in 2010 following a ruptured aneurysm. Then there’s her father, Xavier, a talented writer who lacks inspiration since Sy’s death. In Alice’s heart, there’s also Edouard, her best friend who could fall in love with her. And there’s also Hubert, the neighbor. Some people say he’s crazy, others say he’s mentally challenged. In Alice’s heart there’s Leopold, who loves Alice. And there’s Julie too, who could be her ideal best friend. And then there’s Jonas, Julie’s boyfriend, with whom Alice immediately falls in love. There’s also Sybille, Julie’s sister, a journalist who is suffering from a tyrannical boss and who sees in Xavier her professional rescue… and perhaps more… And then there is Lea, Sybille’s three and a half-year-old daughter, who soon seems to become friends with Hubert. As Edouard says it so well, this story is a model of clarity… Indeed, since all these “inextricable” situations are linked by Luc Blanvillain’s pen. A pen full of humor, emotion and imagination, which delights and gives life to Alice’s Heart. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Luc Blanvillain turned to children's literature, eager to regain the thrill he experienced from the great storytellers he devoured as a child, including Jules Verne and Alexandre Dumas. Each of his novels explores a genre, often quite codified, that he diverts: the crime novel, the adventure novel, the romantic comedy…
Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Laurène Reussard DANS LA TÊTE D’UNE GARCE vol.1 (Inside the Head of a Bitch)
Marion Olharan COUP DE BLUSH À MILAN (Milan Blush)
Hachette Romans, March 2018, 560 p., 15+
Bragelonne, March 2017, 75,000 words, 15+
◊ For once, the bad boy is a bad girl! ◊ More than 1.5 million views on Wattpad. ◊ An original point of view on romance 15+
Mia has all the boys at her feet, and she loves it. All boys except one. Welcome into the mind of a selfproclaimed bitch! Mia is a bitch, and she knows it! She is as cold and authoritarian as she is beautiful and popular. She accumulates conquests without leaving any place for feelings. It's simple, no boy can resist her. At least until the arrival of Evan, the handsome new boy at high school. Fortunately, Mia loves challenges and decides to seduce Evan, whatever the cost! She promises, she will overcome the defenses of this boy, even to undermine a reputation she took so long to build...
◊ The dark underside of the beauty business, depicted with delightful humour similar to that of The Devil Wears Prada. ◊ Romance and escapism with Milan, Paris and Italy’s dramatic Cinque Terre coast as a backdrop. ◊ A story about the vicious competition women often face in the workplace.
Working for a major European luxury cosmetics brand: the height of glamour? Maybe not... Lisa is a 28-year-old Frenchwoman working in Milan for a luxury cosmetics brand. She’s totally devoted to her career and throws herself into developing a new range of beauty products. She’s devastated when the promotion she so dearly wants goes to a rival, Gabriele Dante Visconti. Gabriele may have the name of an angel, but he also has the temperament of a demon. Lisa is still reeling from bitter disappointment when she learns her father has died. She travels back to Paris for his funeral. While there she gets back together with her first love, Clément. When she returns to Milan she’s determined to take revenge on her rival. No more nice Signorina Lisa! But she’s bewildered to find that Gabriele has completely changed, and is now all smiles and ever so helpful. Lisa however sees this as a trick to yet again steal the show from her. Blinded by ambition and determined to let noone stand in her way, she must decide if advancing her career is worth missing out on the love of her life. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marion Olharan is a former employee of L’Oréal. Milan Blush is her first novel.
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REAL CHARACTERS
REAL CHARACTERS Sophie Doudet POUR QUI MEURT GUERNICA (For whom Guernica dies?)
Sophie Doudet UN ADO NOMMÉ RIMBAUD (A Teenager Named Rimbaud)
Scrineo, August 2018, 256 pages, 12+
Scrinéo, August 2017, 260 pages, 13+
A heart-breaking story of love and political awakening
◊ A fictional biography of poet Arthur Rimbaud’s teenage years.
in times of the Spanish Civil War.
◊ The moods, beliefs and emotions of the famously tortured and talented young poet, who was so unsure of what to do with his life, and with whom young readers will identify easily.
January 1937 : the Civil War is raging in Spain and General Franco’s rebels have conquered a big part of the Basque Country. The Bilbao region alone is resisting. In order to protect their daughter from the threatening repression, Maria’s Republican parents send her to the small city of Guernica. This way they’re hoping to save her from tragedy. But History has other plans. In Guernica, Maria meets Tonio, love, poetry and death. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sophie Doudet teaches Literature and General Culture at the Political Sciences Institute in Aix-en-Provence. She has written major biographies of Churchill, Malraux, Camus and Madame de Staël, as well as a teenage novel on Rimbaud (Un ado nommé Rimbaud). She is also a regular contributor to our General Culture magazine l’éléphant. She lives in Aix- en-Provence.
◊ Written in a novelistic style, this is an easy-to-read but hard-to-put-down book, with excerpts from Rimbaud’s poetry scattered through it.
A heart-breaking novel on the beliefs, struggles and choices of one of the greatest 19th century poets as a teenager. August 1870: the young Arthur Rimbaud wins all the awards in his high school in Charleville (northern France). Gifted and full of hopes, he already sees himself as a Poet living in Paris, but his mother holds other plans for him, far more down-to-earth. In the Rimbaud family, the storm is threatening, implacable and violent as the mind of a teenage genius can be. Few miles away, the war against Prussia is preparing, the second Empire is faltering and the revolution rumbles on in Paris... Will Arthur make his crazy dream come true in the storm to come? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sophie Doudet teaches Literature and General Culture. She wrote two major biographies of Churchill and Malraux and is a regular contributor to magazine L’éléphant.
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Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
FANTASY / SF / DYSTOPIA Hervé Jubert LA TRILOGIE MORGENSTERN (The Morgenstern Trilogy)
Bragelonne, 288,000 words, 13+
Artur Ténor L’ACADÉMIE DIPLOMATIQUE D’ISULDAIN The Diplomatic Academy of Isuldain The Murderous Shades Scrineo, August 2018, 224 pages, 12+
◊ Full manuscript available in English. ◊ Rights sold: USA (HarperCollins reverted), UK (Hodder & Stoughton), Spain (Roca - reverted), Italy (E/O reverted), Russia (AST - reverted), Taiwan (Fantasy Foundation reverted). ◊ A thrilling adventure set in a world replete with touches of steampunk. ◊ Meticulous and sophisticated prose by a seasoned writer.
Welcome to a futuristic universe where replicas of old cities are pleasure grounds for tourists and murderers. 19th-century London: Mary Graham is found murdered in a dark alley in Whitechapel. It appears that Jack the Ripper has returned. However, this London is a crime-free 'virtual city', a theme park re-created to attract tourists. Roberta Morgenstern, a qualified witch, and her assistant Clement Martineau, fresh out of the police academy, set out to solve the murder. A wild chase through the streets of London brings the heroes face to face with the terrifying new Ripper. Their mission is to find the man who is bringing these murderers back to life, as the trail of evidence leads them through a number of virtual eras and locations - Paris at the time of Louis XIV, Venice, and finally Montezuma's Mexico, where they have an assignation with the Devil himself.
The new fantasy saga by Arthur Ténor, based on an original idea: a diplomatic school in a world of elves, trolls and other creatures. In an immense empire threatened by foreign tribes, a group of young diplomatic apprentices coming from five different communities is to prevent and resolve all conflicts that might wreck the fragile equilibrium of the continent. Orhass, Mythrite, Éléona, Memnéphiphéon and Akron are part of the Twiligt room. But a newcomer may destabilise the precarious balance of the room... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Arthur Ténor is a child in the body of an adult. But although he defines himself as a writer of adventure novels, he’s also a realistic author, witness of his time, who deals with serious subjects such as harassment (L’enfer au collège : "Hell at school"), freedom of speech (Je suis CharLiberté), or freedom of religions (Guerre des idées au collège : "War of ideas in High School"). Apart from writing, he loves to meet with readers in book fairs and schools. His novels have been published in Germany, South-Korea, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in 1970, Hervé Jubert made a notable debut in the world of fantasy with his first novel and gained renown in children’s literature with The Morgenstern Trilogy. In 2013, he won the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.
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Estelle Faye LES NUAGES DE MAGELLAN (The Magellan Clouds) Scrineo, November 2018, 352 pages, 12+
Olivier Gay LA MAGIE DE PARIS (The Magic of Paris) Book 1: The Heart and the Sword Book 2: The Calm and the Storm Book 3: Here and Elsewhere Bragelonne, 65,000 words per book
A great space opera novel, with strong and powerful female characters, beautifully written. 45th century. Mankind has explored and conquered the Milky Way. The new borders are the Magellan clouds, but the trips there are rare. Twenty centuries ago, Mankind discovered the dark energy, an unlimited resource, and has been exploiting it ever since, putting an end to wars about fossil fuels. More than 1,000 years of freedom and technical advances followed... Until new power and domination games emerged, resulting in more and more outlaws and pirates. In the galaxy, rumor says some pirates have created a perfect republic on a certain planet, out of the Companies’ power. On one of the last frontiers before the Clouds, Dan, a young waitress, sings country music in a pseudo- Texan bar while dreaming about big stellar cities. She’s fascinated by Mary, a laconic customer who’s said to have been part of the legendary planet’s annexation expedition... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Estelle Faye writes science fiction, fantasy, historical fantasy but also Young Adult novels. Her trilogy La Voie des Oracles (“The Path of the Oracles”) was awarded the Imaginales book award in 2015, the Elbakin book award in 2015 and the Uchrony ActuSF book award in 2016.
◊ A contemporary swirling YA fantasy trilogy. ◊ A carefully measured mélange, combining magic, a secret society, love and swordfights. ◊ Adolescent readers will love the surprises, characters and action scenes.
Discover a world of sword fights, powerful spells, and dramatic chases over the roofs of Paris. Six foot tall, Chloé can beat anyone at fencing. But when she saves her classmate Thomas from the claws of a strange creature, her life is turned upside down. She is badly wounded and passes out. But when she wakes up she is even stronger and faster than ever! Thomas reveals that he has magic powers and that in order to save Chloé he had to use a special ritual, which bound her to him. Now his unwilling knight, Chloé discovers the world of magicians: she has sword fights with demons, protects Thomas as he closes up holes in the world, and takes on other knights (including the subdued but sexy David) as well as magician-in-chief Mickael, none of whom want her in their ranks. And when she finds out that she technically died during her first fight and was only saved thanks to Thomas’ ritual, Chloé decides to get her life back at any cost. She also gradually realises that the world of the demons is not so different from our own, and that Mickael lies about many things... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Olivier Gay, born in Grenoble in 1979, is a successful French writer of crime, fantasy and horror novels, for both adults and young adults.
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Chloé Bertrand IL NOUS RESTE LE CIEL (We still have the sky) Book 1 Under the Ashes Book 2 The Luck of the Hanged Book 3 to be published in December 2018
Christophe Lambert T.I.M.E STORIES
Bragelonne, 65,000 copies, 13+
Bragelonne, 100,000 words per book, 13+
◊ A very topical theme: global warming ◊ A gifted author with a vivid, incisive style ◊ Breath-taking pace, an unputdownable page-turner
An uncompromising science fiction novel that brings to life the reality of an international ecological disaster through the eyes of four young people who can count only on themselves to survive. Their names are Kiran, Matthey, Tobias and Charly. They are fourteen, twenty, ten, and sixteen years old. They live in India, Australia and Utah. They are children of the same world, a world where, suddenly, everything is going wrong. Tornadoes, tsunamis and floods: climate disruption is as drastic as the irresponsibility that precipitated it, and the consequences are cataclysmic. Caught up in the turmoil and left to their own devices, all four them embark on a long journey, fleeing hostile lands and human folly in search of their families, safer places and, above all, in the hope that a better life is still possible, somewhere.
◊ The Space Cowboys are a board game publisher founded in 2013 and distributed by the market leader Asmodée. ◊ The official novel of the board game that sold over 300,000 copies worldwide. ◊ An effective tale that will appeal to all readers and fits perfectly with the game timeline. ◊ Cross-promotion guarantied with the distributor of the game in each country.
The official novel of the best Science Fiction narrative game! Year 2468. Spotted by a recruiter, Tess Haiden passed with flying colours the many tests required to join a highly-secretive organisation. She is in for a shock: T.I.M.E Agency has been sending its agents through time for several years. Thanks to considerable resources, they prevent anomalies and paradoxes by dispatching their agents to different eras and places around the world. Over the course of her many missions, Tess learns that they are not alone in time corridors and she starts wondering about the true nature and goals of the agency. T.I.M.E Stories was created in 2015 and quickly won over thousands of lovers of narrative games across the world. The novel was written in close collaboration with the game’s creators, giving the reader new perspectives on this fabulous universe. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christophe Lambert is a wellknown name in the world of children’s literature and is an established author of sixty novels in various adult genres.
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Paul Beorn CALAME (The Reed Pen) Book 1 The Two Faces Book 2 Forthcoming in 2019
Pierre Pevel LE PARIS DES MERVEILLES (Paris Of Wonderment trilogy) Bragelonne, 2015, 13+
Bragelonne, 150,000 words per book, 13+
◊ English detailed summaries available. ◊ An unputdownable, multi-layered story full of twists and surprises. ◊ A masterful tale by a natural-born writer who expertly navigates the fantasy genre. ◊ Pleasant and smooth prose with a delightfully unexpected ending.
When the man outshines his legend. After a year of civil war in the kingdom of Westalie, the rebels are brutally crushed during an attack on the capital. Their legendary leader, Darran Dahl, is killed in a fight with the king himself, and his supporters are thrown into the dungeons. D’Arterac, a famous collector of legends with an uncanny ability to discern truth from fiction, discovers young Maura, Darran Dahl’s first lieutenant, in a cell. He offers her a deal: she will be spared execution in exchange for the true story of the rebel leader, a mysterious warrior of obscure beginnings who was said to have been indestructible. The young girl tells D’Arterac all about Dahl, whom she served first as a maid, before becoming his most faithful ally during the civil war. The complicated relationship between the rebel leader and his sidekick hides more than one secret… if Maura is telling the whole truth. For she is making the most of her reprieve by formulating a plan to escape and take up the fight again. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Beorn grew up listening to his parents read Tolkien and Roald Dahl to his elder siblings. He has become a multi-award-winning author (he’s won the Prix Imaginales des Lycéens, the Prix des Incorruptibles, and the Prix Gulli, among others) in all the genres he’s put his pen to.
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◊ Rights sold in: Czech Republic (Albatros/Fragment), Bulgaria (Iztok Zapad). ◊ A sort of Sherlock Holmes in Wonderland that is utterly unique. The use of real places and characters alongside magical ones is clever and unusual. ◊ The humorously ironic tone creates a light, easy-to-read style and makes the characters all the more endearing. ◊ Both the historical context and 20thcentury habits and technology are scrupulously respected.
The investigations of a gentleman-magician and a pixie-burglar – in a Belle Epoque Paris – can get awfully complicated, especially when they turn out to be mixed up with political machinations from another era. Louis Denizart Hippolyte Griffont, a magician renowned for his skills as a detective and for his knack for getting into trouble, has been asked to help resolve one of the greatest mysteries of a 20th-century Paris that has been transformed by the magic of the Otherworld – the land of fairies, pixies and sprites, which is connected to the French capital by a magical metro line. Alongside Aurélia, his enchantress-burglar- spy of a wife, and with the help of his own powers and the police force, he will do his utmost to preserve a fragile peace that is threatened by an evil conspiracy. A trilogy of gripping stand-alones filled with humor and fantasy, set in an idyllic, but still dangerous Paris. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Pierre Pevel, born in 1968, is one of the foremost writers of contemporary French fantasy. The author of nine novels, he was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in 2002 for The Cardinal’s Blades, published internationally.
Lester Agency / 2018 / YA
Aurélie Wellenstein LA MORT DU TEMPS (The Death of Time)
Aurélie Wellenstein LE DIEU OISEAU (The Bird God)
Scrineo, May 2017, 304 pages, 13+
Scrineo, March 2018, 352 pages, 13+
◊ A teenager’s journey of self-discovery to save the world, set in a postapocalyptic France.
◊ The gripping adventures of a slave fighting for freedom and revenge. ◊ A hero motivated by a desire for revenge that will gradually lead him into madness.
◊ Characters from different eras, who have all been uprooted in one way or another, but who weave bonds of true friendship.
◊ A dark and violent tale, full of the horror of a mind driven insane by bloodshed.
◊ A striking, in-your-face style that confronts us with the violence and terror present in a very well-crafted post-apocalyptic world.
A dark and violent story about trauma, resilience and revenge. A remarkable initiation story.
In a post-apocalyptic setting, a teen tries to save the world,
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she’s
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destruction…. A temporal quake has laid waste to the Earth, wiping out much of the world’s population and shaking up time periods. Callista is the only survivor in a devastated Paris, where 2,000 years of architecture have been smashed together. With her landmarks overturned, the young woman has just one hope: finding her best friend, who stayed in the countryside, alive. Callista has no choice but to set off on foot for a long journey, chased by the quake’s monstrous aftershocks, which seem to be following her, determined to destroy her. If she stops or even slows down, the cataclysm will swallow her up. Alongside some strange companions who have emerged from different centuries, she will do whatever it takes to escape the chaos. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Aurélie Wellenstein, award-wining author of two previous fantasyfiction novels, is at the height of her powers here, with this violent, dazzling and terrifying tale.
An island. Ten tribes. Every ten years, a competition decides on which tribe will dominate the island for the next ten years. The losers go through the traditional banquet: an orgy day when the winners can reduce to slavery, kill, rape and even eat the losers. Ten years ago, Faolan’s family was slaughtered in front of his very eyes. He was saved by Torok, the son of the winning chief, and made his slave. Ever since, he’s had to suffer the pervert fancies of his master. His only perspective is to win the Bird God contest and take revenge. Who will win: the master or the slave? What will happen to the people living on the island? What is the price to pay to win? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Aurélie Wellenstein lives in Paris. She writes a lot of fantasy novels, in a strange and disturbing style. LE ROI DES FAUVES (2015) won the Halliennales book award and was selected for several national book awards. LES LOUPS CHANTANTS (2016), won the Elbakin book award and was also selected for several national book awards.
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Carina Rozenfeld ZALIM vol. 1
Scrineo, October 2016, 300 pages, 13+
◊ A story brimming with political conspiracies, secret loves and bloodcurdling battles. ◊ Female characters with strong, feminist personalities, who shape their own fates. ◊ More intriguing volumes to come.
In a medieval-seeming setting with a steam-punk touch, two neighboring kingdoms surrounded by fjords have been waging merciless war. After 500 years of war, the end is near and one kingdom is about to fall under a siege. To avoid seeing its population decimated and its culture wiped out, it has no choice but to use the ultimate weapon: a demon. The decision is a very risky one, however, because it will unleash dark forces that are beyond anyone’s control. The demon blindly slashes, demolishes and mutilates whatever it encounters, without distinction of uniform or nationality. What’s worse is that in order to perform its evil deeds, it must take possession of a human body and soul, without that person realizing what has happened. Everyone wonders who the host body is as the ever bloodier and more horrifying massacres pile up. The revelation will take place during a ball, shocking everyone. The demon chose the princess, the king’s beloved, pampered daughter and heir to the throne. She is forced to flee to protect her people, but that may not suffice, because the demon’s ascendancy over her is growing… “Northern medieval fantasy with a spoonful of magic, a hint of steampunk and an out-of-control, mishievous demon: these are the perfect ingredients assembled in this first volume! The follow-up promises to be even better...” Bookenstock Blog
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Carina Rozenfeld ZALIM vol. 2
Scrineo, September 2017, 350 pages, 13+
In the midst of the harsh and gorgeous landsapes of a fantasy Scandinavia, a silent fight rumbles between Man and Demon, in a dangerous fool’s game Elyana has fled her home, but is soon lapped by Jad, who claims to be protecting her but doesn’t speak the whole truth... They both walk towards the North, between ice, snow and northern lights. As they travel side by side, Elyana, solitary as ever, and Jad, patient and anxious, size each other up. A silent fight is taking place between the two of them, and they’re not quite sure of what they feel for each other. Who is going to win? Will they be stronger than Zalim? Will Elyana ever see her beloved sister again? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Carina Rozenfeld is a prolific author of young-adult novels in the sciencefiction, fantasy and imaginary genres. She is best known for LE LIVRE DES ÂMES (The Book of Souls), the first volume of her LA QUÊTE DES LIVRES-MONDE (The Quest for World-Books), in Editions Intervista’s Cinémascope collection, edited by Luc Besson. Her popularity is booming, and her she has won numerous literary prizes.
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Carina Rozenfeld LA QUÊTE DES PIERRES DE LUET (The Quest For The Luet Stones)
Roxane Dambre TRILOGIE SCORPI (Scorpi Trilogy)
L’Atalante, February 2015, 223 pages 13+
Calmann Levy, October 2017, 13+
◊ A reader-friendly style, combining spoken language and lush description, makes it easy for readers to identify with the heroes and enter their world. ◊ A planet with fascinating and unusual details, including winged natives and a purple sky. ◊ Funny characters with a sense of humor, and a range of different, endearing personalities. ◊ A multi-facetted plot intertwining detective work, archeology, travel and adventure.
Zec, Eden and Louis seem like ordinary teens:, only they’re going to Cheberith, the planet they saved in LA QUÊTE DES LIVRES MONDE. But a mysterious pink stone is discovered in the Etlal desert, and with it, an ancient and dangerous power. If it falls into the wrong hands, the planet and its saviors could wind up back at the mercy of the Swallower of Worlds.
◊ Awarded the Grand Prix de l’imaginaire 2017: the most ancient and prestigious prize for sciencefiction and fantasy in France.
This Young Adult trilogy follows Charlotte whose discovery of an apparently defenseless boy in the streets of Paris will change her life forever. Indeed, this young boy is not so defenseless after all and belongs to the “creatures of the shadows”. He even has a very handsome older brother who will leave a lasting impression on Charlotte. A love story coupled with the discovery of a new fantastic world inhabited by strange deadly creatures is the magic recipe for the fast-paced Scorpi Trilogy. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Roxane Dambre also wrote the Animae series and while continuing to write, is studying for a degree in industrial process engineering.
It seems that five of these stones were hidden in different places 3,000 years earlier. When all five stones are together, it becomes possible to time travel. In the wrong hands, that power could allow the Swallower of Worlds to return and to destroy, not only Cheberith, but its saviors – before they are even born! Once again, Carina Rozenfeld and her inseparable threesome embark on a thrilling new adventure combining detective work, archeology and travel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Carina Rozenfeld was born in 1972. An award-winning author from her very first novel, LUCILLE ET LES DRAGONS SOURDS (2004), her specialty is YA literature and SF. Her trilogy, LA QUETE DES LIVRES MONDES (2008), won the Prix des Incorruptibles (2010), LA QUETE DES PIERRES DE LUET features the same characters, allowing readers to return to their fantasy world.
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GEEK LA VIE SECRÈTE DES MONSTRES The secret life of monsters” series
FORTNITE, Unofficial Guide
Éditions 404, 2018, 144 pages each
Éditions 404, September 2018, 80 pages
◊ Rights sold in: Portugal, US, Germany, Netherlands ◊ Fortnite Battle Royale is THE latest survival game.
In this non-official guide, readers will learn everything about characters type (constructors, soldiers, outlanders & ninjas) their advantages, their best attacks, defense techniques, but also tips and tricks to become the BEST player! At the beginning there are 100 players on an island threatened by all kinds of creatures that have come after a storm. Players must sort their way out to be the last one standing. To succeed they must build forces to protect themselves, but also weapons to attack their enemies and create their own team, trying to gather the largest number of allies with different skills.
◊ Rights sold in: English Spanish, Czech, German, Dutch, Chinese,
A new Minecraft series from the monster's point of view! I, the Witch Sally the witch wants to develop a destruction potion to be proclaimed queen of Minecrafters. The only issue? She doesn’t have the recipe and she has to deal with a clingy little boy.
I, the Wither skeleton What Leo loves the most is making jokes and he obviously shares this passion with all the creatures of Minecraft! After a questionable ultimate joke, he is assigned with the dumbest whiter skeletons of the whole Universe. Leon will have to take charge, but it’s not easy to have a serious quest when all he wants to do is have a good laugh. 34
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Cube Kid JOURNAL D'UN NOOB SERIES (MINECRAFT)
Nicolas Digard FRIGIEL & FLUFFY
Slalom, October 2016, 302 pages
Éditions 404, 6 volumes, 8+
◊ 300,000 copies sold in France. ◊ Rights sold in: Italy (DeAgostini), Spain (Planeta), Portugal (Planeta).
◊ Follow the very first adventures of the young Frigiel and Fluffy in this exclusive prequel. Get to know the village of Lanniel before its destruction by the Ender Dragon.
Do you know Frigiel and Fluffy, the two characters ◊ English text available!! ◊ Rights sold to: North America, UK, Germany, Portugal, Spanish Worldwide, Italy, Russia, Slovakia & Czech Republic (Albatros Media), China, Korea, Netherlands, Poland (Jaguar).
◊ Over 200,000 copies sold in France! A fan fiction bringing the hilarious diary of a young Minecraft villager who wants to become a warrior! The hilarious diary of a young Minecraft villager who wants to become a warrior! But his dream is to become a warrior and beat the monsters that keep on attacking the town. So when he hears that 5 of the best students are about to start a warrior training, he’ll do anything to be a part of it! Competition will be tough but he’s chosen to be a warrior! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Cube Kid is the pen name of Erik Gunnar Taylor, who writes gaming-related fiction, including stories based upon Minecraft. His best-selling Minecraft series, Wimpy Villager, was republished in paperback form as Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior with some of the largest publishers in the world, translated into 12 languages.
followed by millions of fans on the famous Youtube channel? Children can now discover unreleased adventures of their heroes in the world of Minecraft for the first time in books, in a three-part series. Frigiel, orphan, is raised by his grandfather in a small village in the Forest of Arden. As a teenager, he doesn’t know much about the world. With his reckless and goofball but faithful dog, Fluffy, he’s going to have adventures which will lead him to the Netherlands and to discover that magic, forbidden for a century, is always used. On the way, Frigiel and Fluffy meet Abel, 19 years old boy, very talkative but a little beat fearful, who hates magic, and Alice, a great thief and independent girl. The party is in full swing for the 80 years celebration of King Llud when a huge black dragon appears above the village. Before he’s going to fight against the dragon, Ernald (Frifiel’s grand-father) entrusts him a black safe and make him promise never to open it and bring it to his friend Valmar. Involuntary member of this adventure, Frigiel hits the road, ignoring he carries the one of the most searched object in the world, coveted by the terrible sorcerer Askar. Sorcerer who just escapes from the Farlands prison. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Youtuber since 2001, Frigiel produces videos about many different video games. With Nicolas Digard, they make new stories with the desire to offer a real extension of what Minecraft fans already know about the game, with a lot of surprises. The illustrator Thomas Frick designs the sets and characters of many video games.
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BESTSELLERS Virginy L. Sam, Marie-Anne Abesdris JOURNAL D’UNE PESTE (Diary of a pest) series
La Martinière Jeunesse, 2015-2018, 224 pages, 9+
◊ English sample available. ◊ Rights sold in: Brazilian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian ◊ Ongoing Czech Offer. ◊ An exceptionnaly successful French series: close to 150,000 copies sold! ◊ This is not just another diary series, these are also how-to books in which Fannette gives plenty of tips to become a true pest! ◊ When Tom Gates meets Nellie Olson, burst of laughter guaranteed! ◊ Easy to read, filled with hilarious illustrations and a dynamic layout. ◊ A new type of book, modern and full of humour, a tender look upon today’s teens.
Fannette shows us that impertinence is not only a boy’s thing. She has deliberately decided to be a pest, a poison, a plague. And it is not as easy as it seems!
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Vol. 1: Me? Such an Angel
Volume 3: What an atmosphere!
Fannette was never first in the class. As a matter of fact, she hates the first of the class. She also hates mothers rummaging in their daughters' things, spelling, Saturday family meals, tidying up her room, and so on. Fannette's recipe to always have fun? Follow her desires. ALL her desires. Be different and do nothing like everyone else. In short, be a perfect little pest! In her diary, she gives us her secrets, her tips and tricks. And invite us to join the Sisterhood of Pests.
Fannette caught lice the day she was supposed to meet with the beautiful Theo. Never mind! Fannette, a graduate of Pestology, will not let anyone spoil her new idyll...
Vol. 4: No coincidence!
“When the pest is as funny, imaginative and cute as Fannette, no one can resist!” Le Dauphiné Libéré
Vol. 2: Me, in love? Never!
Fannette has a lot to do: spark a sense of humour in her father, stop her mother from going through her stuff, help her friend Charly figure out why his mother come home so late, think about her future… Sometimes life can be so hard when you’re 11 years old!
Vol. 5: That's all I needed!
Christmas is Fannett’s favourite time of the year. First because no one in her family is able to offer her a proper gift (who would be happy to receive a book about horseback riding? Who?). Second, because it's the school report period. And, too focused to become the queen of pests, Fannette has not been great… Things could work out with the New Year: Fannette is invited to a party with the beautiful Theo. Except that... Fannette must also bring her little sister Eva! A chance that Fannette graduated from pestology: she will find a ploy to get out of this!
The summer holidays are coming! But in the meantime, Fannette has a busy schedule: prepare for the end of the year party; find a birthday present for her little sister Eva; entertain grandpa Gaston, who is bored stiff in the hospital; bear the delusions of her father in full regression. Fannette deserves some holidays!
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Marie-Renée Lavoie LA CURIEUSE HISTOIRE D’UN CHAT MORIBOND Hurstubise, March 2014 , 8+
Marie-Renée Lavoie UNE AUTRE CURIEUSE HISTOIRE D’UN CHAT MORIBOND (Curiosity Killed the Cat) Hurstubise, October 2017, 8+
◊ English sample available! ◊ Rights sold: French (Alice Éditions).
The hilarious story of a cat who dies often and never grows up. After being found in the woods by a little girl on a picnic, Lil Kitty makes a new life for himself in an alleyway of a city in Quebec, all while believing he’s in Australia. The dangers that surround him are many: Prechewed, the big dirty alley cat; the USA, the United Spider Alliance in the basement ; Billy, the friendly neighbour; and the little girl’s parents, who have the incredible luck of being stick drawings.
◊ Rights sold: French (Alice Éditions).
The cat that can’t stop dying... is back! While on vacation with his adopted family in Charlevoix, Ti-Chat resolves to find his mother—along with the answer to his life’s greatest mystery: the reason he isn’t growing up. Together with Prémaché, his best friend alias ex-alley enemy, the SUBS (Special Unit for Basement Spiders), and Glu(e), a very special earthworm, they sneak into the car and are off on an adventure. But the forest is fraught with dangers. Will they ever find Ti-Chat’s mother?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MARIE-RENÉE LAVOIE was born in 1974 in Limoilou, near Quebec City. She is the author of three novels, inclu- ding La petite et le vieux (Mister Roger and Me, Anansi, 2012) which won ICI Radio-Canada’s “Battle of the Books” — the Quebec equivalent of “Canada Reads” — and the Archambault Prize. She also writes children’s books (La curieuse histoire d’un chat moribond) and young adults novels (Zazie series and Le dernier Camelot) all published by Éditions Hurtubise. She holds a masters degree in literature and teaches at the college level.
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Silène Edgar & Paul Beorn 14-14
Bragelonne, April 2014, 352 pages, 10+
Silène Edgar ADÈLE ET LES NOCES DE LA REINE MARGOT (Adele and Queen Margot's Wedding) Bragelonne, April 2014, 290 pages, 13+
◊ English samples available! ◊ Rights sold in: Czech Republic (Albatros Media/CooBoo), Taïwan (Prunsoop), China (Eastern), Brazil, Lithuania (Nieko Rimto), Latvia (Janis Roze). Korea (Prunsoop), Taiwan (Eastern), Slovakia (Albatros Media), Poland (Nowa Basn), Bulgaria (Era). ◊ Over 70,000 copies sold! ◊ Multiple awards. ◊ Themes close to teenagers’ hearts: school, parents, friendship and love. ◊ Readers to plunge into a crucial historical period and follow the story of a beautiful friendship. ◊ Strong suspense right up to the end: what will happen to the boy in 1914?
Two teenagers. One lives in 2014, the other in 1914. A fantastic, intelligent and inventive story of two boys writing letters to each others, 100 years apart. A century lies between them... Adrien and Hadrien are 13 and they live only a few kilometres from one another in northern France. They both have problems in school, at home, and with girls. There’s only one thing that sets them apart: a century! But magic intervenes in their destinies and two mailboxes appear before their respective houses, allowing them to exchange letters when they each believe that they are writing to a distant cousin. Once they understand what is going on, Adrien realises he needs to warn Hadrien that WW1 is about to break out and he must seek shelter at all costs. Will Hadrien believe him? Will Adrien manage to save this boy? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Silène Edgar teaches French and runs a website for middle school teachers. She is also the author of several novels for young adult readers. Paul Beorn has already written several adult fantasy, YA and middle-grade novels.
◊ Sample chapters available in English! ◊ Rights sold in: the Czech Republic (Albatros Media). ◊ A novel that intertwines 16th-century history and the daily life of a 21stcentury teenaged girl, through the prism of a French literary masterpiece: Alexandre Dumas’s LA REINE MARGOT. ◊ Life at court in the Louvre in 1572, as seen through the eyes of a modernday tween girl: parallels and contrasts between the two eras make for all sorts of interesting situations. ◊ A light-hearted, up-to-date style that echoes today’s teen slang and addresses tweens’ issues.
What happens when a 13-year-old girl has to read a very long novel for school? To her own surprise, she winds up getting into the book literally! She becomes a character in the plot, which is set in the 16th century. Adèle is like most girls her age: her parents just don’t get it, she’d rather hang out with her friends than study… So when she finds out that she has to read a whole, long book over her vacation, she’s furious! But little by little, Adèle gets so caught up in what she’s reading that the story works its way into her dreams, and then into her life! What Adèle sees when she closes her eyes is so much more exciting than her life as a 21st-century middle-schooler that she’s getting less and less motivated to wake up. Until one day, she just doesn’t. Her whole family gathers at her bedside to urge her to come back to the real world, which she eventually agrees to do. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Silène Edgar teaches French and runs a website for middle school teachers. Her previous novel, 14-14, sold over 100,000 copies and has been translated into 10 languages.
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Gilles Paris L’ÉTÉ DES LUCIOLES (Firefly Summer)
Gilles Paris AUTOBIOGRAPHIE D’UNE COURGETTE (Autobiography of a Zucchini)
Héloïse d’Ormesson, 2014, 224 pages 10+
Plon, October 2016, 224 pages, 10+
◊ Rights sold in: Germany (Berlin Verlag). ◊ A daring idea and an unusual point of view – a nine-year-old boy’s take on the often opaque world of adults – makes for a touching tale for both adults and young teens. ◊ A story that offers a new look at blended families. ◊ It’s impossible not to fall under the charm of Victor, an intelligent and attentive little boy with a sense of humor and a lot of imagination, and who is learning about both love and friendship.
Victor, age 9, recounts his summer on the French Riviera. Victor, his two moms and his sister spend every summer on the Riviera, in an apartment that belongs to his dad, who refuses to join them, since he’s haunted by demons from the past. One summer, strange things happen: fireflies swarm at night, storms come crashing down, and most of all, Victor and his friends Justine and Gaspard meet a pair of twins on the old Customs path. The twins convince them to come along on clandestine visits to abandoned beach houses. All sorts of enigmas surround the twins, who are in fact dead – they drowned years before. Victor eventually finds out that they were friends of his father, and that they have come to try to help his dad come to terms with this tragic episode. Victor’s dad comes to join them at Roquebrune, and winds up jumping into the water during a violent storm to save Victor and Gaspard. Having found peace at last, he spends the rest of the summer with his wife and children, to Victor’s delight. Gilles Paris makes us feel like kids again with this charmingly naïve and poetic tale enlivened by Victor’s free- wheeling imagination.
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◊ Rights sold in: Germany (Knaus), China (People’s Literature Publ. House), Korea (Yolimwom Publishing Co.), Spain (Maeva Ediciones), Italy (Edizioni Piemme S.p.A), Japan (Popular Publishing Co. Ltd.), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Poland (Swiat), Czech Republic (Baobab), Greece (Diamantis), Bulgaria (Colibri), Sweden (GRATE Bokförlag), Russia (Kompas Guide). ◊ 200,000 copies sold! ◊ A new edition for the release of the animated film, a hit at the Cannes Film Festival!
Placed in a foster home, Zucchini learns about friendship and young love. With both sidesplitting laughter and a few tears, naivety and emotion, a novel about learning about life. Zucchini is an intriguing nickname for a 9-yearold boy. Although his unique story is surprisingly universal: after his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer Raymond, who accompanies Zucchini to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. At first Zucchini struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust, finds true love and at last a new family of his own. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gilles Paris wrote PAPA ET MAMAN SONT MORTS (1991), AUTOBIOGRAPHIE D’UNE COURGETTE (2002), and AU PAYS DES KANGOUROUS (2012) that have been translated into several languages. His stories, which are always written from the point of view of a little boy, are a veritable ode to childhood.
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HIGHLIGHTS (p. 2) Collective work ..................................................... LES NEURONES ATOMIQUES ............................... 3 ESCAPE BOOK series ........................................... 3 Betty Piccioli .......................................................... A.I. AMIS IMAGINAIRES ....................................... 4 Silène Edgar & Paul Beorn ................................... LES LOUPS-GAROUS DE THIERCELIEUX ............... 4 Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc ..................................... COMMENT DEVENIR UNE VRAIE SORCIÈRE....... 5 Estelle Faye ............................................................ L’ÎLE AU MANOIR ................................................. 5 Lise Syven ............................................................... À UN CHEVEU ...................................................... 6 Anthony Combrexelle .......................................... PRESQUE MINUIT .................................................. 6 Marie-Lorna Vaconsin .......................................... LE PROJET STARPOINT ......................................... 7 Marie-Lorna Vaconsin .......................................... LE PROJET STARPOINT – TOME 2 ......................... 8 Béatrice Bottet ...................................................... LE SECRET DE LA DAME EN ROUGE ................... 9 Béatrice Bottet ...................................................... LA DAME EN ROUGE RÈGLE SES COMPTES ....... 9 MIDDLE GRADE (p. 10) Rose-Line Brasset ................................................... JULIETTE À HOLLYWOOD................................... 10 Rose-Line Brasset ................................................... JULIETTE À SAN FRANCISCO ............................. 10 Sophie Laroche ..................................................... ÉCHANGE PETIT FRÈRE c/ POISSON ROUGE ... 11 Isabelle Neveux ..................................................... HANNAH ET GRAND PA .................................... 11 Nadia Coste .......................................................... MA PIRE SEMAINE DE VACANCES ................... 12 Safari Go! ............................................................... LE CODE DES RANGERS .................................... 12 Anne Pouget ......................................................... MA VIE DE MONSTRE ......................................... 13 Paul Beorn .............................................................. UN OGRE EN CAVALE ....................................... 13 Silène Edgar ........................................................... 42 JOURS ............................................................ 14 Silène Edgar ........................................................... LES LETTRES VOLÉES ........................................... 14 Gally Lauteur ......................................................... LES MIAMS – AMITIÉS MANDARINE................... 15 Gally Lauteur ......................................................... LES MIAMS – AMOUR TOMATE ......................... 15 Gally Lauteur ......................................................... LES MIAMS – SECRET SODA .............................. 15 Gally Lauteur ......................................................... LES MIAMS – FOLIE FRAISE ................................. 15 Sophie Laroche ..................................................... 6 POTES EN 3E .................................................... 16 Sophie Laroche ..................................................... 6 POTES EN 2DE ................................................. 16 Sophie Laroche ..................................................... 6 POTES POUR TOUJOURS ................................. 16
YOUNG ADULT (p. 17) Amélie Panneton................................................... COMME UNE CHALEUR DE FEU DE CAMP .......17 Anne Plichota & Cendrine Wolf........................... LES 5/5 vol 1 & 2 .................................................17 Luc Blanvillain ......................................................... L’INCROYABLE VOYAGE DE M. FOGG ............18 Luc Blanvillain ......................................................... LE MONDE SELON WALDEN ..............................18 Yann Rambaud ..................................................... JESSIE DES TÉNÈBRES ..........................................19 Yann Rambaud ..................................................... GASPARD DES PROFONDEURS .........................19 IMPORTANT TOPICS (p. 20) Maureen Wingrove (aka Diglee)......................... MÉMOIRES D’UNE JEUNE GUENON - ................20 Melissa Bellevigne.................................................. PARANOIAS ........................................................20 ROMANCE (p. 21) Morgane Bicail....................................................... NE T’ATTACHE PAS .............................................21 Camille Pujol .......................................................... LE JOURNAL D’UNE ÂME RÉVEUSE ...................21 Catherine Kalengula ............................................. PICK-UP LOVE .....................................................22 Catherine Kalengula ............................................. London Fashion (2 titles) ...................................22 Sarah-Maude Beauchesne .................................. COEUR DE SLUSH................................................23 Sarah-Maude Beauchesne .................................. LÈCHE VITRINES ...................................................23 Sarah-Maude Beauchesne .................................. MAXIME ...............................................................23 Maxence Fermine ................................................. LE SYNDROME DU PAPILLON ............................24 Luc Blanvillain ......................................................... DANS LE COEUR D’ALICE ..................................24 Laurène Reussard .................................................. DANS LA TÊTE D’UNE GARCE vol.1 ...................25 Marion Olharan ..................................................... COUP DE BLUSH À MILAN .................................25 REAL CHARACTERS (p. 26) Sophie Doudet ...................................................26 POUR QUI MEURT GUERNICA ............................26 Sophie Doudet ...................................................26 UN ADO NOMMÉ RIMBAUD ..............................26 FANTASY / SF / DYSTOPIA (p. 27) Hervé Jubert........................................................... LA TRILOGIE MORGENSTERN .............................27 Artur Ténor .............................................................. L’ACADÉMIE DIPLOMATIQUE D’ISULDAIN .......27 Estelle Faye ............................................................. LES NUAGES DE MAGELLAN .............................28 41
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Olivier Gay ............................................................. LA MAGIE DE PARIS ........................................... 28 Chloé Bertrand ...................................................... IL NOUS RESTE LE CIEL........................................ 29 Christophe Lambert .............................................. T.I.M.E STORIES.................................................... 29 Paul Beorn .............................................................. CALAME ............................................................. 30 Pierre Pevel ............................................................ LE PARIS DES MERVEILLES .................................. 30 Aurélie Wellenstein ................................................ LA MORT DU TEMPS ........................................... 31 Aurélie Wellenstein ................................................ LE DIEU OISEAU .................................................. 31 Carina Rozenfeld .................................................. ZALIM vol. 1 ........................................................ 32 Carina Rozenfeld .................................................. ZALIM vol. 2 ........................................................ 32 Carina Rozenfeld .................................................. LA QUÊTE DES PIERRES DE LUET ......................... 33 Roxane Dambre .................................................... TRILOGIE SCORPI ............................................... 33 GEEK (p. 34) LA VIE SECRÈTE DES MONSTRES ........................ 34 Cube Kid ................................................................ JOURNAL D'UN NOOB ...................................... 35 Nicolas Digard ....................................................... FRIGIEL & FLUFFY ................................................ 35
BESTSELLERS (p. 36) Virginy L. Sam, Marie-Anne Abesdris .................. JOURNAL D’UNE PESTE ...................................... 36 Marie-Renée Lavoie ............................................. HISTOIRE D’UN CHAT MORIBOND .................... 38 Marie-Renée Lavoie ............................................. HISTOIRE D’UN CHAT MORIBOND .................... 38 Silène Edgar & Paul Beorn.................................... 14-14 ................................................................... 39 Silène Edgar ........................................................... ADÈLE ET LES NOCES DE LA REINE MARGOT ... 39 Gilles Paris............................................................... L’ÉTÉ DES LUCIOLES ........................................... 40 Gilles Paris............................................................... AUTOBIOGRAPHIE D’UNE COURGETTE ............ 40
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