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Language
English
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When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
3) Rooftoppers
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles, who's been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair go to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At night when everyone else is asleep, one artist sits awake--pencil in hand, stuck. Lenny is a composer, but this evening, no music floats from his head. Then as night breaks into dawn, Lenny's cat, Pipo, begins lapping milk. Lick lick lick. Birds yawn awake, singing in the trees. Tweet tweet! A bike bell tings on the street below. Suddenly, Lenny notices a rhythm to the world around him. He pulls on his coat and walks through the city to write...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she's dreamed of and worked...
Author
Series
Mira's diary volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mira receives a postcard from her missing mother from Paris and she and her father travel to France to search for her, but while visiting Notre Dame, Mira touches a gargoyle and is whirled into the past, where she meets the famous painter Degas and catches a brief, shocking glimpse of her mother.
10) Hugo
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hugo the pigeon, the park warden of a small Parisian park, tries to coax a mysterious Somebody, the only one who never opens the windows for his visits, to come out to enjoy the park and make new friends.
11) Oddity
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind in an alternate nineteenth century where a failed Louisiana Purchase has locked a young Unified States into conflict with France"--Publisher marketing.
12) The Pear affair
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, affectionately known as Pear.
Author
Series
Duckscares volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After solving a soccer-related, curse-driven mystery in Germany, Huey, Dewey, and Louie--the world-famous nephews of Donald Duck--find themselves on a hot new case when they travel back to France" --
14) Kipling's choice
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.
16) Paris cat
Author
Publisher
Tiny Owl Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A sassy cat from the back alleys of Paris believes she is quite different to the rest of the rabble. She can do anything she sets her mind to - even if others don't think so. Leaving her cat family behind, she sets off to explore Paris. Cat meets legendary singer Edith Piaf, creates her own stunning designs at a high-fashion atelier and dances with the infamous dancer Josephine Baker and her cheetah. But is this the life she really wants? What about...
18) The red taxis
Author
Series
Benny Breakiron volume 1
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious taxi service has moved into superboy Benny Breakiron's town threatening to put Benny's friend, taxi driver Mr. Dussilifard, out of business.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Armand, an old man living on the streets of Paris, relishes his solitary life in the beautiful city. He is happy with his carefree existence, begging and doing odd jobs to keep himself warm and fed. With simple pleasures and no cares, what more could he need? Then one day just before Christmas, Armand returns to his favorite spot beneath the bridge to find three cold and hungry children. Although he has no interest in children, Armand soon finds himself...
Author
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sonia Delaunay, painter and textile, theater, and fashion designer, made enormous contributions to the development of abstraction in the early 1910s, partly because of her son, Charles. In this new book, Delaunay and six-year-old Charles have a fantastical adventure in a world of color and form, a magical road trip in their car, modeled after her 1925 design for a Citroen convertible. They glide into a landscape of colors and shapes drawn from Delaunay...
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