Resultados para "Second" en Adolescentes

This second novel in the Miss Peregine's Home for Peculiar Children series begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other surprises. Complete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly creepy) vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight fantasy fans of all ages.

England, 1888. Fourteen-year-old Indigo Taylor dreams of becoming a detective, which as a young child is what she thought her solicitor father was. A local murder that seems too quickly solved inspires Indigo to do some investigating of her own. The thread she finds leads to a dangerous chain of events. Meanwhile, Indigo is befriended by a group of circus artists who live a refreshingly different way of life than the stifling society in which finds herself. For fans of Sherlock Holmes, Flavia de Luce, and The Mysterious Benedict Society.

Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa’s bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge they have is used to help their neighbors through the illnesses caused by starvation and war.

La Germania invade Polonia e Francia, la Russia occupa la Finlandia, l'Italia entra in guerra: i britannici sono soli, e con l'attacco a Pearl Harbour la guerra è mondiale. Mentre Hitler avvia la "macchina del genocidio", i russi vincono a Stalingrado e Mussolini ripiega a Salò. L'URSS avanza a est, gli Alleati sbarcano in Normandia. Per l'Asse è la fine. Chiudono il conflitto le atomiche di Hiroshima e Nagasaki.

Tra il 1870 e il 1910 l'Europa occidentale, gli Stati Uniti e il Giappone sperimentano la "Seconda rivoluzione industriale", favorita dal petrolio e accompagnata da profonde trasformazioni economiche, istituzionali e sociali. Mentre il proletariato aumenta e nascono i partiti politici di massa, le potenze economiche manifestano fisicamente la propria forza internazionale: è l'età dell'imperialismo.

Alison Green, desperate Valedictorian-wannabe, agrees to produce her school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. That’s her first big mistake. The second is accidentally saying yes to a date with her oldest friend, Jack, even though she’s crushing on Charlotte. Alison manages to stay positive, even when her best friend starts referring to the play as “Ye Olde Shakespearean Disaster.” Alison must cope with the misadventures that befall the play if she’s going to survive the year.

Nelle loro opere Pavese e Fenoglio ricreano "luoghi" come le colline, il fiume, la città e la campagna, carichi di significato simbolico, su cui proiettare violenze e tenerezze, delusioni e bisogni di azione ed eroismo. Pasolini, una delle figure più eclettiche del Novecento, affronta il tema del radicale cambio di valori imposto dalla società dei consumi alla cultura italiana.

Il breviario dei politici contiene una raccolta delle massime di comportamento e strategie elaborate dal cardinale Mazzarino per manipolare le leve del potere. Il libro si costituisce come una guida politica dedicata all'individuo che vuole prevalere sugli altri, con astuzia e dissimulazione. Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino (1602-1661) fu un cardinale, politico e diplomatico italiano, che servì in Francia come Primo Ministro sotto il regno di Luigi XIV, succedendo il cardinale Richelieu.

L'esperienza letteraria di Flaubert nel contesto francese della seconda metà dell'Ottocento produce una nuova letteratura, capace di raccontare la realtà con distacco e con approccio positivista: è il Naturalismo. Questo stesso bisogno di "realismo" in Italia accende il dibattito sulla necessità che il romanzo sia sempre più aderente al "vero": Verga, Capuana e De Roberto ne saranno i portavoce nazionali.

Mentre nell'Europa del secondo Ottocento, sulla scia della poesia di Charles Baudelaire, si diffonde il Simbolismo, che riprende ed esaspera alcuni aspetti della poetica romantica, l'Italia vive esperienze ugualmente interessanti: quella reazionaria e anticonformista degli scapigliati, o, all'opposto, quella di ritorno al classicismo di Giosuè Carducci.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across the world of “thinspiration” websites, where young people encourage each other in their mission to lose weight, she quickly becomes addicted. Finally, she has found a place where she is understood and where she can belong.

Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things … like turning off the stove, or Lucky’s name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn’t realize how bad things are. That is until he’s gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can’t hide what’s happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren’t. And some really, really aren’t.

It’s 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city’s Jews, but even Paul’s parents think he should go along with his classmates in order to keep himself safe. Just when he’s starting to despair, Paul meets the Edelweiss Pirates, a group of teenage boys and girls who are working to undermine the growing power of the Nazis. When he joins the rebel organization, he finds out just how hair-raising and dangerous it is.

She hadn’t told anyone. Not a single soul. Not one word about that night and what had been done to her had ever passed Maddy Malone’s lips. She’d thought about it at first - had been desperate, even frantic, to tell. But then had come the shame, and the intimidation from the boys who raped her - and the one who held her down.

Growing up in the shadow of a famous mother, Clara has never felt good about her body. Now, at 16, she has an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. After a social media disaster, she decides to escape for the summer to Paris to stay with her estranged dad and her six-year-old brother, Alastair, who is on the autism spectrum. Charged with his care, Clara and Alastair set out to explore the city.

It’s 1942, and the Nazis are rounding up Jews in the Polish town of Pinczow for transport to the Treblinka death camp. Leib and Hanna Gold thought they had more time to develop an escape plan. While Leib leaves to negotiate a hiding place, Hanna and their children, Shoshana, Esther, and 12-year-old David, steal away in the night to find shelter with a family friend. Leib promises to join them in the morning, but when daylight breaks, Leib had vanished. Hanna must flee to a safer refuge or she and her children will perish.

The true story of 19-year-old Jordana Lebowitz’s time at the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz, a man charged with being complicit in the death of more than 300,000 Jews. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordana was still not prepared for what she would see and hear.

In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird - a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird, and it is something that neither should ever be allowed to possess.

Au camp de Niederhagen où l'on déporte les traîtres à la Nation, une seule devise prévaut sur tout le reste : "Une génération de forts éliminera les faibles. Faire pénitence, c'est se sacrifier pour la science." Mais Krista n'est pas d'accord. Elle ne veut pas faire pénitence. Elle ne veut pas se sacrifier pour la science. Ni maintenant. Ni jamais.

A présent, Krista a perdu ses alliés et ses repères. Elle est seule. Seule dans un univers qui est le sien et dont elle ne veut pourtant plus. Un pied dans chaque camp, elle ne sait plus qui elle est ni où elle doit aller pour découvrir la véritable personne qui se cache en elle. Une seule solution s'offre à elle désormais : quitter Germania.