Risultati per "bambini" in Azione e avventura

IL QUINTO ROMANZO DELLA SERIE HUNGER GAMES. Quando sai già che perderai tutto ciò che ami, che ragioni ti restano per lottare? All'alba dei cinquantesimi Hunger Games, i distretti di Panem sono in preda al panico. Quest'anno, infatti, per l'Edizione della Memoria, verrà sottratto alle famiglie un numero doppio di tributi rispetto al solito. Intanto, nel Distretto 12, Haymitch Abernathy cerca di non pensarci troppo, l'unica cosa che gli interessa è arrivare vivo a fine giornata e stare con la ragazza che ama. Quando viene chiamato il suo nome, però, il ragazzo vede infrangersi tutti i suoi sogni.

John Daniels, il sacerdote già protagonista del precedente Le radici del cielo, dovrà cercare, fra le comunità che popolano la metro milanese, nuovi alleati per la sua crociata contro il Male: dai Bambini Sperduti di Bonola ai sorprendenti Chinos, ai primitivi Alberti, fino all'alleanza più strana e difficile da ottenere, quella con le Creature delle Tenebre che presidiano il Duomo, trasformato in qualcosa che sfida la ragione umana.

Tano è un ragazzo intelligente e acuto nelle sue osservazioni. Precocemente maturo per la perdita del padre, ucciso in un agguato da due malviventi, vive con la madre. Di lui si occupa anche una tata perché la madre è molto assorbita dal lavoro: è infatti avvocato penalista. In una bella giornata estiva, mentre gioca sul prato contiguo al giardino della sua villa, Tano trova interrato un fucile, che comincia ad intessere un dialogo col fanciullo il quale, allibito, deve accettare il fatto che "alcuni fucili parlano".

Does size matter? Is bigger better? That’s no small question to Tom Little - the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but he’s got far grander ambitions - to become the muscleman at the top, the ringmaster. Now, drawing on some dark ancient secrets and mystic texts, he’s about to get his wish.... Assuming another man’s identity, Tom discovers he must also take on his sins, debts, and enemies. He may be living large - but now there are those who want to make him pay for the big man’s sins.

First published in 1719 in London, the first edition of Robinson Crusoe gave credit to the work's fictional protagonist, Robinson Crusoe, as its actual author instead of Daniel Defoe. This led many readers to believe Robinson Crusoe was a real person and the book a true account.

A man builds a time machine and tells his dinner guests that he can travel through time. He leaves from dinner in his machine for three hours and has adventures that include going back in time hundreds of years and forward in time millions of years, where he finds strange and dangerous places from which he is lucky to escape from. He returns and tells them of his adventures and shows proof of his travels by providing strange items from his pocket.

In Wonderland, she encounters strange creatures like the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts, each more surreal than the last.

In the twilight of the Wars of the Roses, one knight carries out a final mission for his fallen king... August 1485. Grizzled knight Sir John Hawker carries a heavy burden on his shoulders, but a chance for atonement beckons when his liege lord, King Richard III, charges Hawker with two secret missions. However, when Richard falls at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Hawker hastens to fulfil his final duty to the king. But the usurping Tudors have discovered Hawker’s quest, and are hot on his heels.

For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers and listeners. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.

Goblins are at work and are doing their best to restore their nefarious leader to ultimate power. Although Strasidous Rowpe has been reduced to a mere wisp of ether, his malevolent influence continues to inspire Goblins… and threaten Zephrum. Zephrum is helped by a number of eccentric and magical people at her school, the newly started (Fiddlesticks School for Alternative Thinkers with Unusual Abilities). There, Zephrum and her friends develop their innate talents, learn circus arts, meet strange magical beings, and end up putting on a lively theatrical show.

Due pirati avventurieri senza scrupoli pasticcioni e cialtroni si commuovono vedendo bambini rimuovere la plastica che ha inquinato i loro mari, che venivano da loro in passato solcati. Essendo a conoscenza dei poteri di una pozione magica, decidono di appropriarsene per aiutare i bambini nel loro scopo: ripulire i mari inquinati dalla plastica.

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him. White Fang is a companion novel and thematic mirror to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild.

De la vasta producción literaria del genial Julio Verne, 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino constituye uno de sus puntos más altos, fruto de una expresividad sin igual para narrar una aventura atrapante de principio a fin. El biólogo francés Pierre Aronnax y su criado, a bordo de una expedición, sufren los embates de un extraordinario monstruo marino que los arroja por la borda del buque, y si bien son rescatados en una primera instancia, quedarán prisioneros del Capitán Nemo, siendo conducidos por los océanos a bordo del submarino Nautilus.

Robin Hood vivió en la segunda mitad del siglo XII bajo el reinado de Ricardo Corazón de León. La fatalidad lo hizo jefe de las últimas bandas de sajones armados que, rebeldes a la conquista normanda, vivían independientes en algunos condados de Inglaterra, fuera de la ley del vencedor, por lo que se les llamaba "outlaws" ("fuera de la ley"). Hacia el tiempo en que Ricardo Corazón de León salió de su cautividad, estos rebeldes jóvenes se habían refugiado en el bosque de Sherwood, teatro de sus aventuras.

Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. Around the World in 80 Days is one of Jules Verne's most acclaimed works.

Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, más conocido como Huck, el mejor amigo de Tom Sawyer, es la continuación de la novela Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn huirá con su amigo y esclavo, Jim, a lo largo del río Misisipi y con dirección a Ohio, estado donde la esclavitud está abolida, con la intención de escapar del mundo en el que los dos se encuentran en busca de la libertad. Correrán numerosas aventuras, esperándoles un final totalmente inesperado.

Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel, was an immediate success when first published in 1719, and has been an internationally popular classic ever since. The compelling tale of a man who put to sea in search of adventure and found himself shipwrecked on a desert island and alone for decades has become a resonant modern myth.

The story of every scientist's dream: to explore the unknown and suddenly make an earth shattering discovery. Follow along as Professor Von Hardwigg, Henry, and Hans traverse through dangerous mountain paths, subterraneous seas, and encounter frightening creatures as they seek to answer one question - what will they find in the center of the earth?

Loyal to the North during the American Civil War, a group of men escape a Southern prison camp in a balloon only to end up marooned on a deserted island. Once they begin to explore the island, where danger lurks around every corner, they find that a mysterious force has kept them out of danger ever since they landed.

Avalon is cursed. Blood built it, and blood brought it down. A bloody murder. A terrible miscarriage of justice. A deadly secret. Rob's determination to discover the truth is about to turn into a struggle between life and death. Can Rob break the curse of Avalon? Or will he be its next victim?