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Children's Fiction Humorous Stories

L' équipe épique quasi héroïque : Mission Morve

by (author) Kevin Sylvester

illustrated by Britt Wilson

Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Initial publish date
Sep 2018
Category
Humorous Stories, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781443157810
    Publish Date
    Sep 2018
    List Price
    $16.99

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 8 to 12
  • Grade: 3 to 7

Description

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Une nouvelle série de 4 romans hilarants d'auteurs canadiens connus!

Si vous pouviez avoir n'importe quel superpouvoir, lequel choisiriez-vous? Probablement pas celui de transformer vos mouchoirs sales en créatures morveuses combattant le crime!

La jeune Jessica Morvan est accablée de tous les types d'allergies connus et inconnus, et a pour habitude de laisser derrière elle une traînée de mouchoirs pleins de morve. Autour de son treizième anniversaire, elle se met à développer de mystérieux pouvoirs qu'elle n'est pas prête à assumer. Au même moment, sachant que ce jour viendrait, les forces du bien et du mal gardent un oeil attentif sur elle et trois autres jeunes « spéciaux »…

Exposés à un mystérieux élément dans l'unité de maternité d'un petit hôpital, ces quatre jeunes développent des pouvoirs plus ou moins enviables à la puberté. Alors qu'ils découvrent leurs capacités et qu'ils tentent de les maîtriser, chacun se prépare à un combat épique qu'eux seuls peuvent livrer.

Les lecteurs seront ravis par cette aventure tout à fait délirante, qui est le tout premier livre d'une série de quatre!

 

If you could have any superpower, what would you choose? Likely not the power to harness your used tissues into crime-fighting snot golems? Thirteen-year-old Jessica Morvan is riddled with every allergy, known and unknown. She's used to leaving a trail of soggy, used tissues wherever she goes, but not at all prepared for the mysterious powers that show around her thirteenth birthday. And just in the nick of time too, as it turns out there are forces both good and evil who have had their eyes on her and three other "special" kids since their birth, knowing this day might someday come.

Exposed to a mysterious element in the maternity ward of a small-town hospital, these four children develop not-so-super powers at puberty, each with their own specific limitations and all more than slightly goofy. As each discovers his or her power and struggles to master it, each is in turn drawn into an epic (or epically silly?) battle only they can fight.

Readers will be riveted to this edge-of-your-seat, howlingly funny story that hits the ground running and never misses a beat. This is the first in a four-book series; the other books are written by Richard Scrimger, Ted Staunton and Lesley Livingston.

Original title: The Almost Epic Squad: Mucus Mayhem

About the authors

 

KEVIN SYLVESTER est auteur laure´at, illustrateur, journaliste, animateur de radio, re´alisateur et documentariste. Il a e´crit les livres de la se´rie MiNRS et Neil Flambe´, ainsi que les livres documentaires Gold Medal for Weird et Sports Hall of Weird. Kevin est reconnu pour son habilete´ de faire un souper dernie're minute avec ce qui est moindrement consommable dans son frigo. Il peut aussi transformer des cercles en chats et des cornets de cre'me glace´e en dragons. Kevin habite a' Toronto.

 

KEVIN SYLVESTER is an award-winning writer, illustrator, reporter, radio sports host, producer and documentary maker. His books include the MiNRS and Neil Flambé series. Kevin's claims his superpower is that he can take a puck off the head and STILL finish a hockey game. He's also known for his ability to be able to make a last-second dinner from whatever smells reasonably edible in the fridge. And he can instantly turn circles into cats and ice cream cones into dragons. Well, cat and dragon cartoons anyway. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Visit him online at www.kevinsylvester.online.

 

Kevin Sylvester's profile page

 

Britt Wilson est illustratrice, bédéiste et préposée au lettrage. Elle a été mise en nomination pour le prix Eisner et le prix Harvey. Elle a publié deux bandes dessinées pour lesquelles elle signe le texte et les illustrations : Cat Dad, King of the Goblins et Britt Wilson's Greatest Book on Earth. Britt habite à Toronto.

 

BRITT WILSON is an Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated letterer, cartoonist and illustrator. She works on various comics and series (including the six-issue mini-series Fionna and Cake, and Becky and Frank’s Capture Creatures) and has also released two of her own graphic novels, Cat Dad, King of the Goblins, and Britt Wilson’s Greatest Book on Earth. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. Visit her online at www.brittwilson.com.

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