Resultados para "Resistance" en Literatura y ficción

Auriane is willing to do anything to save her father, the kingdom's alchemist, from a supposedly incurable disease. Since humans can't find a cure, she doesn't hesitate to turn to less conventional methods.By invoking help from another world, Auriane brings a tyrannical ghost into the palace... To remedy the situation, the young girl will travel beyond worlds, overcome her fears, meet terrifying creatures but also experience a very strong friendship. Above all, she will surprise herself and reveal all her talents...

Auriane est prête à tout pour sauver son père, l’alchimiste du royaume, d’une maladie soi-disant incurable. Comme les humains ne trouvent aucun remède, elle n’hésite pas à se tourner vers des méthodes moins conventionnelles.

The Animorphs have to make the most important decision they've ever faced: Do they continue to fight the Yeerks in secret, or is it time to let everyone know there's a resistance? That the Animorphs exist and Earth does stand a small chance against the invasion. Jake knows that either choice is a major one, not something that a kid should be responsible for. But he's getting tired of the pressure. Even though he realizes his friends need him to be strong, he doesn't feel that way. In fact, he feels just the opposite. And Jake knows if he starts to lose it, the Animorphs are done...

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference. Using forged papers and her fair features, Chaya becomes a courier and travels between the Jewish ghettos of Poland, smuggling food, papers, and even people. Soon Chaya joins a resistance cell that runs raids on the Nazis' supplies. But after a mission goes terribly wrong, Chaya's network shatters.

Sam the sheep is having a hard time. He is pining for Ava the fox, and his actor friends are away performing their play without him. What’s more, someone has decided to build a Community Centre in the next field, and the noise is simply terrible. One of the builders has deeply offended Morag...

Meet Rey, Finn, Poe, and the rest of heroes of the Resistance who are fighting to save the save the galaxy from the evil First Order.

Life is becoming ever more terrifying for the Jewish community as the Second World War envelops their lives. For twelve-year-old Dina and her sisters, things get even harder when their father dies. Their mother must go back to work and despite many objections, the family adjusts to the arrival of their new housekeeper, Nina, who is not Jewish. But Nina’s role changes dramatically when the Nazis invade their small Ukrainian town.

You might be the kind of person who stands up to online trolls. Or who marches to protest injustice. Perhaps you are #DisabledAndCute and dancing around your living room, alive and proud. Or perhaps you are the trans mentor that you wish you had when you were younger. Maybe you call out false allies or stand up to loved ones. Maybe you speak your truth and drop the mic, or maybe you take it with you when you leave. This anthology features fictional stories—in poems, prose, and art—that reflect a slice of the varied and limitless ways that listeners like you resist every day.

When Mavasta Honyouti was a boy he would go with his grandfather to their cornfield, watching him nurture every plant. During breaks, his grandfather would take out a piece of paako root and use his pocketknife to whittle away. He made beautiful carvings that Mavasta would later learn to do himself. But Mavasta would often wonder: what was his kwa’a like when he was a boy? And one day, he heard the story.

Join the Resistance If being a hero were easy, everybody would be one. Mattis Banz knows he's meant to be a hero of the galaxy like the legendary Luke Skywalker, and when General Leia Organa's Resistance recruits him to join its efforts against the evil First Order, he finally has a chance to...

Dans un petit village de France occupé par l'armée allemande, trois enfants refusent de se soumettre à l'ennemi. Mais comment s'opposer à un si puissant adversaire quand on n'a que treize ans ? Plongez dans les deux premiers tomes de cette histoire.

Fugitive Resistance fighter Tommy Bailey has come out of hiding to help rescue Careen Catecher from the clutches of the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense, where she’s being held and interrogated for information about the rebel group. The OCSD is poised to launch the Cerberean Link, a security device that will put all minors under constant surveillance under the guise of protecting them. Convinced that activating the Link will result in irreversible and total control of the population, the Resistance puts its own plan in motion to sabotage the Link and oust the OCSD’s wolfish director.

Finally, Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is settling into her role as the daughter of Davin MacQuinn, a disgraced lord who returned to Maevana to reclaim his house. Though she’s just survived a revolution, one that will finally return a queen to the throne, she faces another difficult challenge. She must prove herself trustworthy to the MacQuinns. But as Queen Isolde Kavanagh’s closest confidante, she’ll have to balance serving her father’s house as well as her country. And then there’s Cartier Evariste, a wholly separate factor in her new life. 

Join the Resistance (Book 1) IF BEING A HERO WERE EASY, EVERYBODY WOULD BE ONE. MATTIS BANZ knows that he’s meant to be a hero of the galaxy like the legendary Luke Skywalker, and when General Leia Organa’s Resistance recruits him to join its efforts against the evil First Order, he finally...

The riveting story of Puerto Rico, its flag, and its people—told in captivating verse by Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Anika Aldamuy Denise. The missing piece of history you are about to read begins with a brave woman, a swath of fabric, and a spool of thread. Puerto Rico’s complex and...

Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer shines a light on life under wartime occupation, in a beautifully told story inspired by the childhood of Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn. As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied...

Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada...