Liaison 3ème / 2nde Collège Victor Hugo – Lycée Bartholdi

Sélection de lectures conseillées pour l'entrée au lycée

Titre : Alex Rider StormbreakerAuteur : Anthony HOROWITZÉditeur : Harrap'sBritish intelligence, MI6, arms Alex Rider with secret gadgetsand sends him on his first mission. But the teenage spy soonfinds himself in mortal danger. His first mission may well be hislast...

Titre : A Little PrincessAuteur : Frances HODGSON BURNETTÉditeur : OxfordRalph Crewe lives in India, with his little daughter Sara. He is arich man, and when he brings Sara to Miss Minchin's school inLondon, Miss Minchin is very pleased. She likes girls with richfathers, because it's good for her school. Mr Crewe loves Saravery much, and he buys her lots of beautiful dresses, and books,and dolls. Miss Minchin smiles, but she says to her sister : « Saralooks life a little princess, not a schoolgirl ». Mr Crewe goes backto his work in India, and Sara begins her new life at school.Everybody likes her, and she soon makes friends. But when youare rich, everybody is your friend. On Sara's eleventh birthday,there is some terrible news from India. Poor Sara is veryunhappy, and she quickly learns who her true friends are...

Titre : A Perfect Wedding (ou presque)Auteur : Rowley DAVINAÉditeur : Talents HautsLe mariage d'Astrid et Patrick doit être un mariage de rêve,mais le jour de la cérémonie, les amies de la mariée réserventdes surprises.

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Titre : A Picnic On EarthAuteur :Rupert MORGANÉditeur : DidierIt’s 04.29 in the morning and the US president is facing anemergency: his satellites have detected an alien vessel orbitingthe planet. Soon the aliens come down to Earth – not inWashington DC, but in the forest outside a tranquil Englishvillage. As the US military manoeuvres to capture the vessel byforce, the villagers react to the situation in a rather more…British fashion.

Titre : Ask No Questions

Auteur : Janice HALLYÉditeur : DidierA Pentagon employee is accused of leaking secret information toan internet site. A lie-detector test suggests he is guilty. Facingprison for life, his only hope is Dr. Alexandre Lelong, apsychologist with an extremely rare talent: the ability to ‘read’people’s true thoughts by observing microscopic changes in theirfacial expressions.

Titre : Billy ElliotAuteur : Melvin BURGESSÉditeur : Pearson English ReadersEleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He isnot very clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discoversballet dancing. Finally he has found something that he can dowell. But everybody knows that ballet is for girls, not boys! WillBilly continue to dance? Or have his father and brother gotother plans for him?

Titre : Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Auteur : Roald DAHLÉditeur : Penguin Books

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Charlie Bucket desperately wants to eat more than cabbage soupevery day. But, even more than that, he longs to see Wonka'senormous chocolate factory! Now Mr Willy Wonka, the mostwondrous inventor in the world, has hidden golden tickets insidehis delicious creamy chocolate bars. Only five winners can gothrough those great iron gates. Will one of them be Charlie?

Titre : Dead ColdAuteur : Sue LEATHERÉditeur : Cambridge University PressA dead girl is found in a swimming pool in Pine Crest, USA. She'sJanine, a 23-year-old student who wanted to write for anewspaper. Detective Flick Laine has to find the killer. But firstshe must find out the big story Janine was working on beforeher death.

Titre : Distant EchoAuteur : Janice HALLYÉditeur : DidierWhen Dr. Alexandre Lelong arrives in Toulouse to examine ayoung American woman with amnesia, he thinks she is simply anintriguing psychiatric case. But there is nothing simple aboutMarilyn Jensen’s amnesia. She has a completely new personality,and even a new language: French. As his feelings for her becomestronger, the mystery of her condition deepens.

Titre : DraculaAuteur : Bram STOKERÉditeur : Penguin BooksWhen Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Draculapurchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries abouthis client and his castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents

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unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby;strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and alunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his'Master'.

Titre : Frankenstein 2.0Auteur : Roger MORRISÉditeur : DidierVous pensiez connaître Frankenstein et le monstre qu'il créa à partir de cadavres ? Préparez-vous à être surpris. Sur une terre bouleversée par le réchauffement climatique, un homme est prêt à tout pour préserver l'espèce. Ce faisant, il donne vie à son pire cauchemar...

Titre : Goodbye Mr HollywoodAuteur : John ESCOTTÉditeur : OxfordNick Lortz is sitting outside a café in Whistler, a village in theCanadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him.She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy tosit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'?Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who isthe man at the next table - the man with short white hair? Nicklearns the answers to these questions three long days later - in apolice station on Vancouver Island.

Titre : Hemingway's Chihuahua, and Other MysteriesAuteur : Peter FLYNNÉditeur : DidierTen extraordinary stories about extraordinary people. Some aretrue, some are completely fictional. But which? Did Einstein trulyexchange places with his chauffeur at a physics conference?Does Queen Elizabeth play poker with her servants? And, ofcourse, did Ernest Hemingway really have a killer chihuahua?

Titre : Lilith

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Auteur : Alex DOUGLASÉditeur : DidierThe victim of a terrible accident, William Clayborne is fortunateto be alive. Or is he? As he recovers in hospital, a beautifulwoman comes to him in the night: a woman he saw momentsbefore his accident. Is she real, or a product of his imagination?As her strange power over him grows, William’s desire and terrorgrow in consequence…

Titre : MatildaAuteur : Roald DAHLÉditeur : Pearson English ReadersMatilda is a clever and unusual little girl. But her parents aren’tinterested in her, and the terrible head teacher at her schoolhates clever children. But Matilda finds a way to be strong, andthe results are very funny.

Titre : My Love, Mon VampireAuteur : Manu CAUSSEÉditeur : Talents HautsAlicia, jeune vampire de seulement 480 ans, doit désormais tuerdes humains pour se nourrir. On lui désigne sa proie, Baptiste, lejeune rugbyman plein de vie dont elle est malencontreusementtombée amoureuse. Celui-ci, très attiré par sa mystérieusevoisine, apprend qu'il est né chasseur de vampires et doit liquiderla belle Alicia sans délai.

Titre : My Sister's KeeperAuteur : Jodi PICOULTÉditeur : Washington Square PressAnna is not sick, but she might as weel be. By age thirteen, shehas undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots sothat her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia thathas plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantationgenetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow for Kate

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– a life and a role she has never challenged... until now. Like mostteenagers, Anna is begining to question who she truly is. Butunlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms ofher sister – and so Anna makes a decision that for most would beunthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and haveperhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.

Titre : Picasso On The Beach and Other StoriesAuteur : Peter FLYNNÉditeur : DidierEleven short stories. Each one about a famous person. Some areimagined, some are true – but which ones?Was wi-fi invented by a Hollywood movie star? Did Princechallenge Michael Jackson to a ping-pong match? And why wasPicasso on the beach?

Titre : Romeo@JulietteAuteur : Manu CAUSSEÉditeur : Talents HautsUne histoire d'amour par e-mails entre Juliette, collégiennetoulousaine, et Mark, son correspondant anglais, qui joue le rôlede Roméo au théâtre.

Titre : Solo RockAuteur : Manu CAUSSEÉditeur : Talents HautsGuillaume, adolescent en rupture de ban, traverseclandestinement la Manche pour assister au concert de son idole,un guitariste de rock. Celui-ci est au top de sa carrière mais sereproche de lui avoir sacrifié son fils unique. Dans une tentatived’expiation, il décide d’offrir sa guitare fétiche à un fan. Leursroutes vont se croiser.

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Titre : Tell No OneAuteur : Harlan COBENÉditeur : Harrap'sFor eight years, David Beck has been trying to get over thetragic loss of his beloved wife, Elizabeth, murdered by a serialkiller. Suddenly he receives an email from his dead wife, he seesher image on a closed circuit television screen, he is suspectedof two murders, he becomes a fugitive... Will he find out thatreally happened to his wife and prove his innocence ? Titre : The ConsultantAuteur : Rupert MORGANÉditeur : DidierThey are young, they are ambitious, and they are on a businesstraining seminar on a tropical island when… the phones stopworking. The electricity is gone. There is not much food andwater. Has some kind of global catastrophe happened, or is thispart of the training? And if it isn’t an exercise, will anyoneescape the island alive?

Titre : The ExsanguinistAuteur : R.N. MORRISÉditeur : DidierLondon, 1914. A killer is at liberty in the dark alleys of the city. The cadavers of his victims all have one thing in common: there is no blood in their bodies. As the Exsanguinist’s reign of terror continues, Detective Silas Quinn finds his suspicions focussing onthe members of an exclusive gentleman’s club…

Titre : The Fortunes Of John De CourcyAuteur : Philip BOSTONÉditeur : DidierOxford, 1582. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, religioustensions between Protestants and Catholics divide the nation. InOxford, the city of scholars, dark forces conspire to destroythe brilliant young philosopher, John de Courcy. Now he has onlyone hope: somewhere in the fetid alleys of the medieval city,there is a prostitute who may be able to save him from ruin…

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Titre : The Ghost MarriageAuteur : Peter MAYÉditeur : DidierChief Inspector Li Yan and American pathologist MargaretCampbell, heroes of Peter May’s best-selling China thrillers,return in a new story. A girl has disappeared in Peking, and themystery is somehow connected to a strange marital rite fromChina’s past: the Minghun, or Ghost Marriage.

Titre : The Great GatsbyAuteur : Francis SCOTT FITZGERALDÉditeur : Harrap'sDuring the Roaring Twenties in Long Island, Jay Gatsby, amysterious young and extremely wealthy man, hosts weeklyparties for the rich and fashionable. But Gatsby remains apartfrom his guests. Why did he buy this fabulous house and settlein Long Island ? Who is the woman he is looking for ?

Titre : The HelpAuteur : Kathryn STOCKETTÉditeur : Penguin BooksAibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who'salways taken orders quietly. Her friend Minny has never held hertongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer.White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full ofambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure.Together, these different women join together to write a tell-allbook about work as a black maid in the South, that could foreveralter their destinies and the life of a small town...

Titre : The Mannequin And The MonkeyAuteur : R.N. MORRISÉditeur : Didier London, the early 1900s. Amélie, the star model of the city’smost opulent department store, is found murdered in her

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bedroom. The door was locked from the inside, and the onlyliving thing in the room is a small monkey. Detective Silas Quinnof Scotland Yard is called in to investigate…

Titre : The SorceressAuteur : Philippa BOSTONÉditeur : DidierOxford, 1583. A local woman is found murdered not far from thecity walls. At the same time, a seller of herbal remedies isaccused of sorcery and faces execution. The two dramas do notseem to be connected, until the young lady Maude Mansfield andher friend Harry Hopetoun begin to investigate…

Titre : The TraderAuteur : Rupert MORGANÉditeur : DidierLondon. Today. A rich trader is murdered on his way to work.Minutes later, an ultimatum appears on the internet: in threedays another banker will die.Three days to catch the killer. Three days of social tension.Three days when London’s streets are ready to explode intoanarchy…

Titre : Your Money Or Your LifeAuteur : Michael GREGORIOÉditeur : DidierThey are artists and vagabonds. Spanish John and his men travel16th century Italy painting church frescoes. They do it formoney and hope the client will pay. The church in the remotemountain village of Gavelli seemed an ordinary job. But it’s not…