Our French books for pre-teens, age 13 to 15

A lumberjack and his wife, unable to feed their seven boys, resigned themselves to lose them in the forest. But, it's without considering the youngest ruse, Little Thumbling, who will help them find their way back and escape the Ogre!

Argan is a hypochondriac who believes he is afflicted with a thousand ailments. He thinks he has found the ultimate remedy by marrying his daughter, Angélique, to a doctor...

Les Fleurs du Mal is a collection of poems published in 1857 that explores themes of beauty, evil, melancholy and escape. Baudelaire expresses an ambivalent vision of life, blending suffering and exaltation while addressing subjects such as love, death, decay, and the quest for the ideal. Through an innovative style and language rich in symbols, the work reflects the poet's inner turmoil and his desire to escape the mundanity of the world.

A man falls little by little into madness, feeling constantly an invisible presence next to him. An old man tells with a cracking voice, a meeting he made about 50 years ago in a sinister castle. On a stormy night, the bearded face of a ghost comes to torment its murderer.

Robin Hood, lord of Loxley and a highly skilled archer, is outlawed due to the dark machinations of the Sheriff of Nottingham and his powerful allies. Along with his merry companions, he then decides to continue robbing the Norman nobles and the clergy of their riches to alleviate the suffering of the poor...

Brave bandit, devoted to the Virgin Mary, but inflexible regarding the hypocritical bishops, Robin Hood is a great figure of the 12th century. His legend, of which multiple versions made it to popular tales, seduced the talented Alexandre Dumas.

Madame Loisel is a beautiful woman who wants nothing but to be rich. She's bored by her simple life of the bourgeoisie. One night, at a party, she borrows a superb necklace from a friend: a river of diamonds. But, during the party, Madame Loisel loses the jewel...

1815. Louis XVIII, restored to the throne, faces opposition that the Emperor, exiled on the island of Elba, is already planning to exploit. In Marseille, torn by civil discord, the time is ripe for settling political or personal scores. Thus, the sailor Edmond Dantès, on the eve of his wedding, finds himself arrested and taken to the Château d'If, without knowing why...

Chapters 1 to 39

Once upon a time, a king whose fortune came from a fabulous donkey that gave gold instead of droppings. The king promised his dying wife to only remarry with a woman prettier and wiser than her. However, to his eyes, only his daughter had those qualities. He then decided to marry her...

Devoted to the passing of time, the poems from "Alcools" recreate a whole world: of the places that drew the author to his existence, and where his memories are intertwining; of the great female figures who crossed his life. But, they're also soaked in a culture both popular and knowing, which allows the poet to collect the heritage of the past while opening to the modernity of ordinary life. We could've mistakenly thought that this poetry book was a rupture book when it was published in 1913. Filled with ancient poems as well as new ones, Apollinaire offers powerful poems to tell out loud, with regular and free verses.

1815. Louis XVIII, restored to the throne, faces opposition that the Emperor, exiled on the island of Elba, is already planning to exploit. In Marseille, torn by civil discord, the time is ripe for settling political or personal scores. Thus, the sailor Edmond Dantès, on the eve of his wedding, finds himself arrested and taken to the Château d'If, without knowing why...

Chapters 40 to 78

Obeying her mother's recommendations, the innocent Mademoiselle de Chartres marries the Prince of Clèves. During a ball, the young woman meets the Duke of Nemours and feels a consuming passion for him, which she refuses to yield to.In this major 17th-century novel, Madame de Lafayette meticulously describes the torments of the Princess of Clèves, torn between desire and duty.

What is Candide? The shortest, funniest, and most famous tale of the Enlightenment. Condemned in several countries at the time of its publication for indecency and insolence, and forbidden by Diderot for his daughter to read, today it tops the best-seller lists of classic literature. It is performed in theaters, set to music, attracts illustrators, and inspires filmmakers.

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen reflects in its various parts the striking richness of Olympe de Gouges' work and carries the voice of an enthusiastic revolutionary into our century. A cornerstone in the fight for equality between men and women, this text, rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century, continues to stimulate our debates.

Le Second Empire vise à faire de Paris la capitale de la mode et du luxe. La ville se modernise. Les boutiques du Paris ancien laissent place peu à peu aux grands magasins, dans le voisinage des boulevards et de la gare Saint-Lazare. La nouvelle architecture illustre l'évolution des goûts : on entre dans le royaume de l'illusion. Octave Mouret, directeur du Bonheur des Dames, se lance dans le nouveau commerce. L'exploit du romancier est d'avoir transformé un épisode de notre histoire économique en aventure romanesque et en intrigue amoureuse. Rien d'idyllique pourtant : le magasin est construit sur un cadavre ensanglanté, et l'argent corrompt tout. Pour Zola, la réussite du grand magasin s'explique par la vanité des bourgeoises et le règne du paraître. Il nous décrit ici la fin et la naissance d'un monde : Paris, incarné ici dans un de ses mythes principaux, devient l'exemple de la cité moderne.

Loyal servant of the Almaviva Count, Figaro refuses to bend himself to the great ones and their privileges. He defends with humor his honor and his love, in one word: his right to exist. Ruse, jealousy, and misunderstandings will animate this crazy day at a frantic pace.

Once upon a time, there was a very rich man who had a blue beard. He had married the youngest girl of a charming neighbor. The day before a very long trip, he gave her his keys. She could use them all except the smaller one, which opened a mysterious study...

Rodrigo loves Chimène and Chimène loves Rodrigo. But a conflict opposes their two fathers. Which will triumph: love or honor?

Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, bets with his club members that he'll do a round-the-world trip in 80 days. And, right away, here he goes, accompanied by his servant Jean, a Parisian alias Passepartout. To win, he'll have to be back in London on Saturday 21st December 1872 at 8:45 PM. Suspected to be the audacious thief of the English Bank, Phileas Fogg will be followed on the whole trip by Detective Fix, who cannot arrest him due to the arrest mandate arriving too late every time... The countries traveled through, the numerous adventures, the strategies employed to overcome many obstacles, the tireless activity of Phileas Fogg in battling against time while never losing his distinctly British composure, and the personalities of Passepartout and the stubborn Fix, all make "Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours" a marvelous novel, one of Jules Verne's best, whose considerable success has never waned since its publication in 1873.

By following the young Eugène de Rastignac, who comes from his province to Paris to try to make his fortune, we discover the underside of Parisian society in 1820.

Eugène befriends Father Goriot, an old man who lives in poverty after having divided his fortune between his two daughters, whom he married off.

Eugène meets both daughters while trying to enter the two dominant classes of the time: the nobility and the wealthy bourgeoisie.

These 21 tales encapsulate all the elements of Guy de Maupassant's art. They primarily depict the small and great miseries of the humble, whether in the city or the countryside, narrated in a minor key, subtly colored by a smile, sometimes a mocking laugh, often a ferocious sneer. These are also, and above all, stories that keep the reader on the edge of their seat. Death is present, sometimes invisible, but lurking, and it suddenly appears around the corner of a page. These tales, emerging from the depths of a soul where the great wandering has begun, are the Contes de jour et de la nuit—stories in black and white, where blinding flashes streak through the depths of the night.

I was a scarecrow... I was known as a pumpkin, at the corner of the garden. I was what I was, we were sorry for it. Luckily, the great lords have more beautiful plans for us! So I prefer to run away... Because at the end of the tale, in real life, I was a blue fear but I will be the red horizon.

summer 2023. A street on a slope. Six teenagers and their skateboard hobby, a simple show of life, smiling and nonchalant. Until that day...

You look at me

as if you don’t recognize me.

Yet, I know you are with me,

and that we have opened our eyes.

But how will we speak to each other now?

What will we be tomorrow?

Tomorrow and all the days after.

Dédée has been homeless for several years. Now in her seventies, she has chosen to live on the streets, with only a small white rosebush as a link to her former life...

Ariel, the artist gardener, did not adorn his wonderful garden with any blue flowers. This deliberate omission, a signature of a painful childhood, does not go unnoticed...

Aya Ahoutou, a young Ivorian woman with a degree in archaeology and a specialization in Prehistory, is called to Mali to conduct surveys on a potential excavation site. Oscar Bonogo, an elderly Burkinabé man, must take to the road to earn the money he needs to repay the tontine. Kim, a young Malian girl, recruited into a band of mercenaries, suddenly finds herself in the role of a soldier of God. Three protagonists take turns telling their stories... while we follow the journey of Nourh and Dhib, our distant ancestors who disappeared 300,000 years ago.

Christmas 1916. Léon Malaterre is fighting in the trenches of Lorraine. The letters from Louison, his wife, help him endure this cursed war and also provide him with insight into the lives of women on the home front in his native Tarn. But Louison, a feminist ahead of her time, also sends him press articles by Marcelle Capy... This remarkable woman endured censorship for her militant writings. She speaks of peace; she supports the soldiers, defends women, and criticizes the shirkers. When she attempts to publish her book, Une voix de femme dans la Mêlée (A Woman's Voice in the Battle), the censorship responds: 'If this text had been written by a man... But if we let women speak, where will we go?'

The young Parker, a Californian of Cherokee origin, dreams of becoming a singer. Maria Rosa, an elderly Brazilian woman of Palikur descent, was one of the first defenders of the rights of Amazonian peoples. Through the voices and journeys of our two heroes, we lead the reader to the Gathering of the Guardians of Mother Nature (the first major assembly took place in 2017, attended by Raoni in Brasília, bringing together nearly 80 peoples).

"Writing is my way of placing my accent, just as you placed yours, Mamé."

The author offers a long poetic tribute to his Mamé.

Summer 1914. The shadow of war lingers in the distance, but here, on the peaceful banks of the Seine, youth still dances. At the Estaminet, laughter rings out, skirts twirl, glasses clink. They talk of love, of the future, of a world that seems unshakable.

Then comes July 31st. A piece of news falls, a cry rises. The music stops, frozen bodies exchange glances, breath held. Innocence shatters in an instant. Tomorrow, they will no longer be dancers but soldiers. The Seine will keep flowing, but they will never be the same again.

Grandmother has just passed away. She took for perpetuity... Perpetuity is a love poem that knocks at the door of time and at the heart of the living.

Philippe Barbeau polished his text for a long time. Then, patiently, Marion Janin made it her own, imposing her own breath on it.Her precise, almost precious line respects the universality of the tale, while at the same time imposing a very personal touch.The stones sometimes have silences that separate.

Chapter from the album "Les méchantes reines étaient-elles de gentilles princesses?" by Grégoire Kocjan and Léo Méar CHAPTER 4 -Mirror, my beautiful mirror, tell me which are the most beautiful stories of princesses... - If you look around in the whole wide world, there are none more amazing than those of Grégoire Kocjan. If the magic mirror says so, it must be true! However, here the princes charming, the dresses and the ponies do not have the ambition to make us dream but rather to wake us up. After a few detours through theatre and comics, the author of the excellent Ogrus, histoires à digérer, is happy to return to fairytales. Always armed with his caustic humour, he explains to us that it is useless to try to free the princesses, they take care of themselves!

Chapter from the album "Les méchantes reines étaient-elles de gentilles princesses?" by Grégoire Kocjan and Léo Méar

- Miroir, my beautiful mirror, tell me which are the most beautiful stories of princesses...

Searching the whole wide world, there are none more amazing than those of Grégoire Kocjan. If the magic mirror says so, it must be true! However, here the princes charming, the dresses and the ponies do not have the ambition to make us dream but rather to wake us up. After a few detours through theatre and comics, the author of the excellent Ogrus, histoires à digérer, is happy to return to fairytales. Always armed with his caustic humour, he explains to us that it is useless to try to free the princesses, they take care of themselves!

Chapter from the album "Les méchantes reines étaient-elles de gentilles princesses?" by Grégoire Kocjan and Léo Méar -Miroir, my beautiful mirror, tell me which are the most beautiful stories of princesses... - Searching the whole wide world, there are none more amazing than those of Grégoire Kocjan. If the magic mirror says so, it must be true! However, here the princes charming, the dresses and the ponies do not have the ambition to make us dream but rather to wake us up. After a few detours through tea and comics, the author of the excellent Ogrus, histoires à digérer (stories to be digested), returns with pleasure to tales. Always armed with his caustic humour, he explains to us that it is useless to try to free the princesses, they take care of themselves!

Chapter from the album "Les méchantes reines étaient-elles de gentilles princesses?" by Grégoire Kocjan and Léo Méar -Miroir, my beautiful mirror, tell me which are the most beautiful stories of princesses... - Searching the whole wide world, there are none more amazing than those of Grégoire Kocjan. If the magic mirror says so, it must be true! However, here the princes charming, the dresses and the ponies do not have the ambition to make us dream but rather to wake us up. After a few detours through tea and comics, the author of the excellent Ogrus, histoires à digérer (stories to be digested), returns with pleasure to tales. Always armed with his caustic humour, he explains to us that it is useless to try to free the princesses, they take care of themselves!

Chapter from the album "Les méchantes reines étaient-elles de gentilles princesses?" by Grégoire Kocjan and Léo Méar -Miroir, my beautiful mirror, tell me which are the most beautiful stories of princesses... - Searching the whole wide world, there are none more amazing than those of Grégoire Kocjan. If the magic mirror says so, it must be true! However, here the princes charming, the dresses and the ponies do not have the ambition to make us dream but rather to wake us up. After a few detours through the theatre and comics, the author of the excellent, histoires à digérer (stories to digest), returns with pleasure to tales. Always armed with his caustic humour, he explains to us that it is useless to want to free the princesses, they take care of themselves!

Chapter from the album "Les méchantes reines étaient-elles de gentilles princesses?" by Grégoire Kocjan and Léo Méar CHAPTER 2 - Mirror, my beautiful mirror, tell me which are the most beautiful princess stories... - If you look around in the whole wide world, there are none more amazing than those of Grégoire Kocjan. If the magic mirror says so, it must be true! However, here the princes charming, the dresses and the ponies do not have the ambition to make us dream but rather to wake us up. After a few detours through theatre and comics, the author of the excellent Ogrus, histoires à digérer, is happy to return to fairytales. Always armed with his caustic humour, he explains to us that it is useless to try to free the princesses, they take care of themselves!

Chapter from the album "Les méchantes reines étaient-elles de gentilles princesses?" by Grégoire Kocjan and Léo Méar CHAPTER 6- Mirror, my beautiful mirror, tell me which are the most beautiful stories of princesses...- Looking around in the whole wide world, there are none more amazing than those of Grégoire Kocjan. If the magic mirror says so, it must be true! However, here the princes charming, the dresses and the ponies do not have the ambition to make us dream but rather to wake us up. After a few detours through theatre and comics, the author of the excellent Ogrus, histoires à digérer, is happy to return to fairytales. Always armed with his caustic humour, he explains to us that it is useless to try to free the princesses, they take care of themselves!

Eight paintings. Eight episodes from a child's life, moving toward adulthood. Eight interconnected chapters that revolve around the same question: Who is he?

A lover who, at the age of 8, committed an unforgivable act?

A hopeless underachiever for whom negative grades were invented?

An intruder, a fraud, an impostor?

A brave soul who rebels when necessary?

A coward who obeys even when he disapproves?

A potential rugby player? An unlikely footballer?

A whistleblower responsible for a dreadful corporal punishment?

This search for identity is sharpened by the gaze of others, who seem to scrutinize him in pursuit of their own answers. What do they think they can discern about his sexuality? "In or out?"

With subtlety and precision, Pierre Leterrier brings to life the turmoil of the quest for self-identity.

During the spring holidays this year, Sophie goes with her mother to her aunt's and her two cousins. From Béthune to the Nice countryside, she's delighted by this new environment, which is profoundly different from hers, and she's faced with bullying.

Valérie Dayre successfully captures the contradictory feelings that Sophie is experiencing, but also the stakes of transmission between generations.

In the world of books, there is a secret organisation that ensures that stories unfold as they were written. Its name is IRREEL: the Institution for the Romanesque Regulation of the Beings and Energies of Books.

Laura, a young science fiction writer, discovers its existence when she stumbles into the universe she has created. Recruited by IRREEL, she discovers its missions and secrets. Her agents, secondary characters in literature, have the power to travel from one book to another: they are there to fight against the anomalies that disrupt the stories. In addition to accidental changes, rogue characters, led by the notorious Arsène Lupin, seem intent on wreaking havoc.

Laura finds herself at the heart of a conspiracy that could well endanger the thousands of stories that have been passed down through the ages...

Fighting with words ? Fight with weapons? This is the terrible dilemma facing young Aman, who comes from a people of nomadic poets. Like his grandfather, he is the Pathfinder, the poet who helps the men of his tribe by telling them the story of their ancestors.

As civil war rages in Somalia, Aman is forced to join the city. Enrolled in the militia, he becomes a child soldier, before deciding otherwise.

In a captivating story, Aman tells us his story of the desert and the drought, of war and death, of life as a soldier and of the love that will bring him brutally to adulthood.

A thrilling historical novel.

1760. Rumors are rumbling in the French colony of Pondicherry: the English are entering the city after months of siege. For the four Kergoet sisters, the danger is great. For the first time, they had to fend for themselves. To escape, to feed themselves, to survive... Joined by two boys from the Black City, they find refuge in a mysterious abandoned barn. In its courtyard, a majestic flamboyant tree is enthroned...

Jules had asked everyone. His father, who is often absent, his mother, a painter, Yvette the baker, the mayor, Bob the postman... But no one could explain to him why the big green and blue cloud above the village never moves, never rains, nor why he feels so strange underneath. He is sure that "his" cloud hides a mystery. A mystery that he must discover at all costs, even if it means facing the one who frightens all the children in the village: the Smoking Grasshopper...

As soon as Alexis sets foot in Marseille, he already hates the city. From backyard fights to drug trafficking, from racketeering to organized crime, from the poor organization of public transportation to the tiny apartment where he has to live with his mother and aunt, everything takes him away from the comfort he was used to before his parents' divorce.

As Alexis gradually discovers the kindness and humor hidden behind the sarcasm of his friends, everything changes: one of his friends, a young undocumented Moldavian, is arrested by the police and is about to be deported. Doing everything possible to avoid the worst, Alexis discovers a reality that he did not suspect, the difficulties and threats that weigh on these immigrants in search of a better life.

A collection of traditional Argentinean stories. A big campfire in the Argentine countryside. A party. Traditional storytellers have come from all over the country to tell us adventures of animals that resemble us and make us all, young and old, go from laughter to tears. Thanks to them, let's discover Argentina, its landscapes, its customs and a little bit of its history...

A children's novel about family secrets.

Everyone calls her Pleurnichou. Her mother, her brother, her schoolmaster... Because she cries all the time, to the point of causing floods. She cries because nobody loves her, she cries because she is alone...

One day, she finds a book: One day, she finds a book: The Witch's Apprentice, which reveals many secrets and teaches her more than one magic trick. Little by little, she transforms her daily life, makes her sorrows disappear and learns to protect herself. These magic formulas will also help her to discover why her father is not here...

A poignant text on the Rwandan genocide.

Running. I run ahead of a past that pursues me. I have been running since 1994. I was a child. Tutsi. In Rwanda, everyone was running. We ran, we fell, we hid. Hutus against Tutsis. Tutsi against Hutu. And the whites. And the military. I lost my family. I lost my brothers. I have seen the horror of men. I run so that it does not catch up with me. And yet I am Innocent.

A demonstration of the Indignados goes wrong when their representative is found dead in a well. Accident? Murder? The Indignados point the finger at the bank in front of which they were demonstrating. The bank denies any involvement.

Between claims, manipulations, conspiracies and corruptions, Caro, a young high school student, will infiltrate the Indignados to untangle the truth from the false, and what a surprise when she discovers the truth...

The story of an old man's long descent into Alzheimer's land as told by his grandson who accompanies him to his last breath. Antonin is facing something unusual. His grandfather is ill. Alzheimer's! The old man is keeping a secret that he has never dared to tell anyone. What did he experience during the war that was so terrible that he kept silent for so long? Will Antonin be able to share his secret with him before his memories disappear forever? A tender and true novel in a humorous tone, which highlights the complexity of family ties and introduces us to characters who are overwhelmingly human.

Indira, the daughter of a good Indian family, is sent to England to follow her studies and perfect her education. She's a studious student but appalled by the misery in India, her country, she befriends a young British man who welcomes her to a circle of young revolutionary activists. The young lady is confronted by her choices: love and violence or renouncement and peace. Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of the Indian government from 1966 to 1977 then from 1980 to 1984.

Cleopatra, the young princess of Egypt, cannot stand her people's suffering, confined in her protecting universe as a high-ranking princess, and surrounded by devoted, but hypocritical, servants. Despite the sarcasm of her big sister Berenice, heiress to the throne, Cleopatra keeps trying to draw attention on the people's misery to the Pharaon. But, when her father, Grand Ruler of the Empire disappears, Cleopatra only wants to find the one who always protected her, and to whom she has endless admiration.

Young Golda, a Russian Jewish girl from Ukraine, landed in the American Midwest with her family to escape poverty and pogroms. However, life in Wisconsin is hardly better than in her native country. Her village is tyrannized by an alcoholic, racist, and violent sheriff. Nevertheless, Golda manages to form a bond with Samy Brown, an elderly black worker who lovingly watches over her. Their miserable existence could be bearable if the sheriff hadn't sworn their downfall.

Before becoming Genghis Khan, the supreme leader of the Golden Horde, which seized all of Asia as well as the outskirts of Europe, Tejmüdjin was just the orphan of Yesugeï, a Mongolian shepherd treacherously murdered. Promised before the tragedy to Boerte, the daughter of the chief of a powerful tribe, our hero sets out to find the statue of the god Kök Tengri, Lord of Heaven and Earth, stolen from his promised tribe. The young but ambitious shepherd would regain his dignity and honor by thwarting the plans of the mysterious thieves.

Kinsaku, the youngest of a long line of warriors serving Japan's lords, doesn't speak much. To the point where the others call him "Kinsa the mute". He doesn't like to fight either, to his father's despair, who persists in teaching him combat lessons. Kinsaku dreams of something else, of poetry, of words dancing and organizing in his head but cannot get out of his lips... He'll have to learn how to fight, but to be heard. Basho-Kinsaku Matsuo is one of the founding fathers, in the 17th century, of poems as haikus.

Attia, a young child from the steppes, spends his time playing Latroncules (a kind of Asian chess) with his friends. The child, the youngest of the siblings, is brilliant and renowned as such. But when his older brother introduces him to the deadly virtues of an innocuous plant, Moundi, who will later become Attila, cannot resist experimenting with it on every animal he encounters. A vocation seems to be born for this budding strategist, to experiment with the seeds of destruction. A calling that will drive him to become "the Scourge" of the World.

During the Crusades times, Hassan's group kidnapped two Francs kids in the Balbeek souk, a little Syrian merchants' city on the edge of the Orient's Francs principality. The city is buzzing between occidental parents looking for the children and the inhabitants in disbelief. According to Hicham, from Hassan's group but a friend of Youssef, son of the governor and future King of all the Muslim world, only he can help them. But, Hassan hates Youssef and thinks gaining glory by sacrificing the enemy's children.

Today, information is everywhere: continuous news channels, notifications, social networks... But how to sort out what is true, what is false, what is essential? How do journalists work? Are they free to tackle all subjects? Are they objective?

That's a lot of questions! Sophie Eustache has conducted an investigation to help the reader take the necessary distance from the mass of information we receive every day.

Today, with scientific progress and the emergence of new technologies, medicine sometimes takes on the appearance of science fiction. By combining medical discoveries and high-tech innovations, some dream of transforming human beings through science, improving the human condition, living longer in good health... 

But not everything is simple. While transhumanists believe they are working for the good of humanity, others question the validity of this approach: should we change the nature of man? Who really benefits from this medical revolution? How far can we go?

More regular heat waves, heavier precipitation and storms, melting Arctic ice, rising sea levels... Most of these natural phenomena are linked to global warming. However, there is always someone who tells us that "the climate is not warming up because it is getting colder" or "it is not man's fault, it is the sun! They are called climate sceptics. Who are they really?

What is the difference between climate and weather? Why do we always talk about not exceeding 2°C? What is the impact of greenhouse gases? Are there economic, sociological or political issues at stake? What can we do about it?

Feminism has existed for hundreds of years! This struggle is led mainly by women, but it concerns the whole of society!

Too many stereotypes are still widespread. They have an impact on the way we view women. The right to vote, the right to drive, the right to education, the right to control one's own body...

This book traces the history of feminism and the struggles waged at different times and in different countries. It gives an overview of the status of women in the public and private spheres and challenges the reader on the role of each and everyone...

Learning about emotions: each book features a small, funny and endearing character, which represents a feeling or an attitude. Through this fun geometrically shaped character, the book deals with our ability to tame and control our emotions.aToday, the world of information technology is often misunderstood even though we use its tools on a daily basis! Not a day goes by without us using new technologies. We work, play, communicate and phone thanks to computers. And all this is thanks to the hacker community! But who are they really? Why is a hacker associated with a computer pirate?

At the end of the book, a guide to cyber defence will give everyone the tools to protect themselves and deepen their knowledge of computers.

Une même passion réunit Lisa, Thomas et Idriss : la géographie. Pour réaliser leur rêve de voyages et de découvertes, ils partent explorer un territoire dont ils ignorent presque tout, la nuit. Mais, une rencontre impromptue va les bouleverser et chambouler leur plan. Ils reviendront de leur expédition transformés et soudés par une solide amitié.

Zero, 14, lives confined to a hyper-technological apartment. Intense physical training, computer practice sessions and remote drone control punctuate his days. His only human contact is a voice, Madar, which he considers to be that of his mother. One day, a breakdown disables all the systems in this universe. A door opens. A street. A new challenge? A step in the program? Is he ready? Zero discovers fear. The cold. Another environment he doesn't understand...

Prudence grew up on a boat, sailing with the wind, following her parents' dream.

The novel takes us from the coast of Africa to the West Indies, with a detour to the United States.

The drama is present right from the start, in the background of this novel that depicts the idyllic life of a close-knit family. The mother's betrayal and the parents' separation are evoked through the eyes of a rebellious teenager, torn from a life of dreams.

Prudence has to reconstruct herself in a world that is totally foreign to her.

The novel recounts this time of wandering and fragility, with memories of a life of travel and adventure gradually fading, giving way to the resilience of the heroine and her family.

Prune, a well-adjusted teenager, divides her life between her high school, her video club friends, her eco-friendly parents... and Axel. Until the day she discovers that the one she thought was her boyfriend is much more attracted to boys. Understanding that she has lost a lover, but not a friend, Prune puts aside her self-esteem to help Axel come to terms with his homosexuality, despite the rejection of his parents and the homophobia of some.

"I went seven times in China [...]. I've discovered peaceful neighborhoods in frantic cities, tumultuous villages in splendid landscapes, and an infinity of tiny activities, held by simple people who, like in the rest of the world, smile, complain, eat, make noise, are agitated, are having fun, are worried, and try to get through to give a chance to their children."

Welcome to Center 8, Linus! Linus's dream has come true. An unexpected encounter, an extraordinary leap across the galaxy, and here he is, a student at the most prestigious intergalactic physics academy: Center 8! A mysterious, chubby man comes to pick Linus up from Saint Mary's orphanage. This boy, about twelve years old, is a little science genius. The man doesn't adopt him but takes him to the Academy of Young Physicists—Linus's dream. However, the learning is not without challenges. The students are attacked by Robotics who seek to steal an object hidden within the Academy. A spy is helping the enemy in this task, but who is it? The apprentice physicists will manage to unmask him. In this adventure, Linus will discover the secret of his origins. He will meet other boys and girls, humanoids or not, but all passionate about physics. They will learn to master matter through thought, thanks to numerous tournaments showcasing their new skills. Together, they will participate in capturing the Robotics spy.