Showing results for "Matilda" in Teen & Young Adult

Matilda es una ávida lectora de solo cinco años. Sensible e inteligente, todos la admiran menos sus mediocres padres, que la consideran una inútil. Además, tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos.... Un día, Matilda decide liberarse y empieza a emplearlos contra la abominable y cruel señorita Trunchbull.

In the tradition of The Man from Snowy River comes a gripping and courageous sequel to A Waltz for Matilda The year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in the heart of Australia...

A page-turning, heart-warming family saga set in the Snowy Mountains during the Depression in the 1930s. Blue Laurence has escaped the prison of her aunt's mansion to join the Magnifico Family Circus, a travelling troupe that brings glamour and laughter to country towns gripped by the Depression...

In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancys family has sent her to Malaya to bring...

It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. As political ideals drift from disaster to the dismissal, it's also time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. It's time too for...

Rachel woke up on her 16th birthday dreading the day ahead. Little did she know that after being pulled into a mysterious mirror by an unknown force, she would emerge in a new realm and soon become Matilda Seer. Every year on December 12th, 12 16-year old foster kids, all with the same birthday, are chosen to enter through "The Entrance" that leads to the Inner Realm. For the past 16 years, none have materialized - until now.

Matilda is the witch who, from the beginning, suffered many defeats, but she never gave up. On this occasion, Matilda returns, ready to take revenge once and for all. But with the passage of time, the world evolved, and that generation became extinct. Matilda traveled the worlds in search of a new generation of humans to exact her revenge. She went so far as to liberate several peoples from an alien species' domain and then exact her revenge on them. Apparently, things got out of control, and she ended up losing track of these humans.

Die Geschichte von Matilda und dem Schmusekater. Oder wie aus dem Bussekater ein Schmusekater wurde. Von einem Bild angesprochen träumt Matilda von dem Schmusekater und hat im Traum sogar eine Idee. Kann man beim träumen Ideen haben? Dies und mehr wird in dieser etwas anderen Weihnachtsgeschichte erzählt.