Books like La petite marchande de prose by Daniel Pennac

Dans Le chagrin d'école, Daniel Pennac dépeint l'angoisse d'un enfant incapable de suivre le cursus—un récit intime qui explore les répercussions de cette lutte sur parents, enseignants et leur propre quotidien.

Marcus Goldman, a writer and former student of the affluent Goldman family of Baltimore, returns to the United States to confront a decades‑old tragedy that shook his privileged youth and threatens to unravel the family's glittering facade.

Un essai narratif au ton primesautier qui constitue un bel éloge de la lecture "libre", du plaisir de lire. Une partie du livre s'adresse aux parents de jeunes enfants, l'autre aux enseignants des niveaux élémentaire et secondaire. Pour un point de vue antinomique: cf. Danièle Sallenave, "Le don des morts."

Ten years ago, twenty-one-year-old Columbia University senior Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") walked out of his Manhattan apartment without a word to his roommates and disappeared. He calls his mother once a year, on Mother's Day, but refuses to answer her frantic questions. This year when he calls, Mack's sister Carolyn, now twenty-six, announces her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. Ignoring a cryptic warning note and the angry protests of her mother, Carolyn swiftly plunges into a world of unexpected danger and unanswered questions. What do Mack's old roommates—a charismatic club owner and a wealthy real estate tycoon—know about his disappearance? Can the police possibly believe that Mack is a shadowy predator—or even a murderer? Carolyn's passionate search for the truth leads her into a deadly confrontation with someone close to her whose secret he cannot allow her to reveal.