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Anna Hamlin Weikel Betty Baird's Ventures
"'Oh, this indigent family of ours! I certainly must bestir myself and do something to support it,' said Betty Baird, airily, to her mother, yet looking determined, and straightening herself up among the cushions piled high on the broad window-seat in her room." Betty is back home with her parents on Long Islands, when she discovers her father is struggling to pay back the mortgage. She decides to help. But can a young girl in 1907 earn enough money to make a difference? And does Betty have the...
Engels | 6 uur 34 minuten (290 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Augusta Huiell Seaman The Dragon's Secret
Sixteen-year-old Leslie has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to her ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for some quiet rest and recuperation. While the beach is lovely in October, Leslie quickly finds herself getting lonely with no one her own age to talk to. But one day, her dog digs up a metal box with an engraved dragon on it. This will lead Leslie not only to a mystery but also to a new friend. Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of...
Engels | 3 uur 25 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Augusta Huiell Seaman The Girl Next Door
Marcia Brett tells her friend Janet that the old, broken-down house next door, which they always thought was empty and abandoned, is apparently not so. An old, veiled woman lives there, and so does a pretty, blond girl of about their age. They discover that this girl, Cicely Marlowe, came to live with old Mrs. Benedict after her mother’s death, but she doesn’t know why, or she is. All she does know is that she must remains mostly unseen, not look out the windows, or talk to anyone. Augusta Huiell...
Engels | 4 uur 12 minuten (188 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz
Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in `Ozma of Oz‘ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncle, Dorothy is once again caught up in a natural disaster – a huge storm at sea that separates her from her uncle. She washes ashore in the land of Ev, a fairyland that has recently lost its royal family, and Dorothy is once more entangled in the conflicts of a foreign place. Not everything is new however, as Dorothy unites...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
"There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time," said the Wizard. "As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy." During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cracks in the earth and find themselves in a whole new land – the Land of Mangaboos. The Mangaboos are a vegetable people, and they accuse Dorothy and her friends of causing the earthquake and sentence them to death. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘...
Engels | 4 uur 23 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....
Engels | 4 uur 4 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess
Sara Crewe is devastated when the news of her beloved father’s death in India reaches her at her boarding school in London. Miss Minchin, the heartless and greedy headmistress, immediately moves Sara to the attic and forces her to become her servant. Despite being used to luxury, Sara quickly adjusts to her new life and never stops being kind and polite to everyone. Little does she now that someone out there is looking for her, and they might be much closer than they think. Author Frances Eliza...
Engels | 7 uur 30 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Joke Linders Het ABC van Annie MG
van de A van Abeltje tot de Z van Ziezo
Uitgekozen door het panel van De Wereld Draait Door Annie M.G. Schmidt is een van de weinige auteurs van wie alle naoorlogse generaties wel een boek hebben gelezen, een liedje kennen, een toneelstuk, televisieserie of film hebben gezien. Elke Nederlander kent Minoes, Pluk, Jip en Janneke, Dikkertje Dap en zuster Clivia. Maar wie is Annie M.G. Schmidt? Langs de letters van het alfabet – van de A van Abeltje tot de Z van Ziezo – wordt de lezer ingewijd in leven en werk van deze tegendraadse taalkoningin....
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 211 pagina's (ePub2, 53 MB) | J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam | 2016
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch De celliste van Auschwitz
hoe een jonge muzikante Auschwitz en Bergen-Belsen overleefde
De Joodse Anita speelt al van jongs af aan cello. Als ze in de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Auschwitz moet, komt ze in het vrouwenorkest terecht, waardoor ze de oorlog overleeft. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 173 pagina's (ePub2, 6,6 MB) | Omniboek, Utrecht | 2015
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Thea den Hartog Vrouwenportretten
Korte levensbeschrijving van 22 bekende Nederlandse en Amerikaanse vrouwen uit de negentiende en twintigste eeuw.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 95 pagina's | Nederlands Bibliotheek en Lektuur Centrum, Den Haag | 1989
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Elizabeth Wanning Harries Twice upon a time
women writers and the history of the fairy tale
Harries introduces the stories written by 17th century French women, or conteuses, female storytellers. Their stories omitted from the traditional, largely male-authored, fairy tale "canon".
Engels | 216 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J | 2001
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