Carter Jones n’en revient pas. Alors qu’il se réveille un beau matin, voilà qu’il trouve un véritable majordome anglais – avec chapeau melon et tout le tralala, s’il vous plaît ! – sur le pas de sa porte....

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill a seemingly impossible school assignment—and...

1968. Une petite, petite ville de l’État de New York. Un père sans repères, une mère sans remède. Deux grands frères, dont un avalé par la guerre du Vietnam. Pas assez d’argent à la maison. Trop de bagarres...

Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep—one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken. In addition...

2011 National Book Award FinalistAs a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a...

In this unforgettable, gently humorous novel, New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his...

S’il y a un élève du collège que Mme Baker, la prof d’anglais, ne peut pas voir en peinture, c’est bien lui, Holling Hoodhood. Chaque mercredi, alors que la moitié de la classe de cinquième est dispensée...

Après la mort de son ami le plus proche durant l’été 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski part pour la St. Elene’s Preparatory Academy for Girls, où elle s’efforce de s’adapter aux traditions du vénérable pensionnat...

A 2005 Newbery Honor Book It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like...

“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.”But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup...

In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.Two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen,...

In this Newbery Honor–winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him, during the school year 1968-69. Seventh grader Holling...

The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion stars . . . all the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth...

What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king, two boys, Tousle and Innes, must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within seven days or be killed. A former nursemaid to the...

A tender story of a father-son adventure with themes of community and kindness, in short chapters with vivid full-color illustrations, by bestseller and Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt and acclaimed...

1968, dans une petite ville de l’État de New York.Un père sans repères, une mère sans remède.Deux grands frères, l’un brutal, l’autre avalé par la guerre du Vietnam.Pas assez d’argent à la maison, des...

It takes one smart sheep to escape from a piano movers’ van and find his way home in this humorous friendship story for emerging and newly independent readers by beloved, award-winning author Gary D....

In these hilarious stories by some of the top authors of middle grade fiction today, each young character is coping with a minor superpower—while also discovering their power to change themselves and...

When Jack's P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is happy about it. Jack is grieving the loss of Joseph, his foster brother, and adjusting to his role as...