Best Selling Books by Lois Duncan

Lois Duncan is known for award-winning suspense novels, such as "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Few people know she has led a secret second life as a poet. From early childhood, Lois chronicled events of her life in verse. At ten, she began submitting her poetry to magazines. Since then, Lois has written hundreds of magazine articles and forty-eight books. She is the recipient of the "Margaret A. Edwards Award," presented by the American Library Association for an "outstanding contribution to literature for young adults." Renowned as a novelist, she kept her poetry notebooks tucked away in a drawer "like a secret vice." Generations of readers who grew up on "Lois Duncan" books have been urging her to write her autobiography. That task seemed formidable until she began to leaf through those notebooks. There, she found herself in every season of her life-a dreamy child, entranced by fairies and magic; an adolescent, embroiled in turbulent romances; a busy young wife and mother; a heartsick divorcee; a remarried, middle-aged housewife, watching children leave the nest; and then, as a grief-stricken mother, struggling to cling to sanity after the murder of her youngest child. "Seasons of the Heart" is the deeply personal story of an "ordinary woman," told in an extraordinary way. "It was with a strong sense of kinship that I read "Seasons of the Heart." The romanticism of the young girl; the passions, frustrations and heartbreak of motherhood; the quiet joys of aging, all are captured in the deft and disciplined cadence of poetry."-"Lois Lowry, twice winner of the Newbery Award"

Andi y Bruce tienen que trasladarse temporalmente a casa de tía Alice, una anciana adorable pero alérgica a los animales. Un día, los niños encuentran a una perrita abandonada y la acogen... poco después se hacen cargo de otro perro del vecindario... Ante semejante panorama, y viendo que el asunto se les empieza a ir de las manos, ocupan una casa vecina deshabitada para convertirla en un hotel para perros, al que se van sumando nuevos huéspedes. Los niños deben guardar el secreto, pero pronto empiezan los problemas: ¿cómo van a cuidarlos y a alimentarlos?, ¿cómo van a mantener el hotel sin que nadie se entere?

In the 1950s, when the society families of Rivertown decide to launch their daughters in an elaborate debut season, beautiful Lynn Chambers is delighted until her father refuses to let her participate in this display of snobbishness and Lynn finds herself ostracized from the community in which she grew up.

A l’instant où elle pose les yeux sur l’imposant manoir gothique de Blackwood, le pensionnat où elle va passer l’année, un sentiment d’angoisse s’empare de Kit. Comme si un vent glacé traversait son cœur à chaque pas effectué vers la porte. Comme s’il y avait quelque chose de maléfique à l’intérieur des murs du pensionnat, perdu au milieu de nulle part. Lorsque d’étranges phénomènes viennent perturber son quotidien et que les trois autres pensionnaires se mettent à développer des talents artistiques incroyables, le malaise de Kit ne fait que s’intensifier. Hantée par une mélodie de piano, elle devient somnambule et aperçoit d’étranges silhouettes dans les couloirs sombres. Bien décidée à mener l’enquête, Kit découvrira que certains secrets feraient mieux de rester enfouis... car ils dépassent tout ce que la raison peut appréhender.

O livro que deu origem a um dos maiores sucessos do terror no cinema. Neste clássico do terror – adaptado para o cinema e para a televisão –, quatro adolescentes tentam escapar de um assassino que deseja vingar a morte de um garotinho. Depois de uma noite de muita festa, quatro adolescentes atropelam acidentalmente um garoto de dez anos. Sem querer lidar com as consequências de seus atos, eles abandonam o corpo e decidem fazer um pacto, com a intenção de manter o ocorrido em segredo. No entanto, nem tudo é tão simples, e o sentimento de culpa não será o único problema com que terão de lidar. No ano seguinte, uma das adolescentes recebe um bilhete anônimo com uma mensagem curta, mas que diz tudo: "Eu sei o que vocês fizeram no verão passado". Em um romance repleto de reviravoltas e obstáculos constantes, os quaro jovens terão que lutar por suas vidas, fugindo e se escondendo de um assassino que está determinado a fazê-los pagar pelo terrível crime que cometeram.

L''Andi adora els gossos.Per això quan es troba una encantadora gosseta amb els seus cadells decideix buscar-los un lloc: a casa seva no es poden quedar. Amb el seu germà Bruce els agafen i els porten a una casa abandonada. Però també hi ha en Red Rover, un setter irlandès maltractat pels seus amos, i en MacTavish, un petit terrier gris, que ha estat abandonat... L''Andi es va engrescant i, quasi sense proposar-s''ho, es troba muntant un veritable hotel per a gossos!Veure tràiler

A collection of twelve stories by different writers and in different genres in each of which a young person is physically and/or emotionally on the edge.

One day, Karen Connors discovers that she has psychic abilities when a child goes missing and she somehow knows where he is. Ron, the good-looking policeman, wants her to help find another child, and soon Karen is entangled in a massive kidnapping plot.

When 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, find themselves in a foster home with a strict "no pets" policy, the siblings have to find a new home for their dog, Friday. The kids stumble into an abandoned hotel and begin transforming it into something truly magical: a home for their dog, as well as all the stray dogs in the neighbourhood! But the hotel soon arouses the suspicions of the police who want to know - who let the dogs in? Based on Lois Duncan''s 1971 children''s book, Hotel For Dogs, this live-action movie stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, and Don Cheadle in a comedic adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you.

Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.

Pour April Corrigan, rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant. Sa vie a basculé cet après-midi de mai où son père, témoin à charge d''une grave affaire criminelle, s''est rendu au tribunal. Elle doit tout quitter : sa maison, ses amies, Steve, le tennis... A-t-elle droit désormais à un avenir sous une autre identité, dans une autre ville ? Sa famille est-elle à l''abri du tueur lancé à ses trousses ?

Natachu Weekoty, a Pueblo Indian girls leaves her family and starts living as a nanny in Albuquerque in order to attend high school there. "Martha" as she is known in Albuquerque has a beautiful voice, a discovery that gives a promise of a rewarding future.

Andi vient d''emménager avec sa famille chez Tante Alice qui est terriblement-allergique-aux-animaux ! Pourtant, le jour où une chienne abandonnée entre en douce dans la maison pour y mettre au monde ses petits, la fillette décide de les cacher. Coûte que coûte... Aidée par son frère Bruce, elle a bientôt l''idée de les transférer dans une maison désertée au bout de leur rue. Et de transformer l''endroit en véritable palace pour chiens ! Andi et Bruce parviendront-ils à diriger cet hôtel sans être trahis par les aboiements ?

Andi en Bruce beginnen samen met twee vrienden een hondenhotel. Niemand mag ervan weten! Als er wel heel veel honden in het hotel komen, is het moeilijk om aan eten te komen. Vanaf ca. 8 jaar.

Traduzido em França, Espanha, China, Japão e na Coreia, Hotel Para Cães é um clássico escrito em 1971, de uma autora com uma vasta obra dirigida ao segmento infanto-juvenil. Premiada pela sua criatividade e originalidade, a par de uma versatilidade e perfeito conhecimento do universo das crianças, Lois Duncan vê agora o seu trabalho ser projectado mundialmente através da adaptação ao cinema pela Dreamworks. As personagens principais são dois irmãos, rapaz e rapariga, de 12 e 10 anos. Certo dia, os pais decidem mudar de casa e enquanto não se instalam definitivamente, vão viver com uma tia alérgica a animais, o que entristece Andi, habituada ao seu cão. Como não podem ter animais em casa, os irmãos decidem acolher uma série de cães numa moradia abandonada. Aos poucos e poucos foram recebendo mais amigos de quatro patas e a casa transformou-se num verdadeiro hotel. Será que irão conseguir manter em segredo este feito?

Krimi. April må svigte veninder og kæreste, da hendes familie pludselig må gå under jorden. Hendes far har vidnet i en retssag, og den anklagedes bagmænd har hyret en lejemorder.