Kathryn Lasky
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 2
Language
Español
Description
Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger make a harrowing journey to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree--a mythical place where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds--seeking help to fight the evil afoot in the owl world.
122) Spiders on the case
Author
Series
The Deadlies volume 2
Language
English
Description
Buster, a walnut orb weaving spider, enlists the help of Jo Beth, one of a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders, to help stop humans who are stealing from the rare books room of the Boston Public Library, where the spiders live.
123) El control
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume Bk 5
Language
Español
Description
Soren's sister, Eglantine, is falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Then, just as Soren notices her trancelike state, Eglantine disappears, and the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole in terrible danger.
"La hermana de Soren, Eglantine, cae bajo el influjo de un extraño sueño que se repite. Entonces, cuando Soren se percata de su estado en trance, Eglantine desaparece y los sueños se convierten...
124) Sea swan
Author
Language
English
Description
At the age of seventy-five, Elzibah Swan decides to take up swimming, a pastime which enriches her life and one which she shares through letters with her young grandchildren.
125) Beyond the divide
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.
127) Pageant
Author
Language
English
Description
Sarah Benjamin, a Jewish teenager on the brink of Kennedy's New Frontier, wonders if she can endure four more years of Stuart Hall, Indianapolis's most exclusive, very Christian, and impossibly stuffy school for girls.
Author
Series
Starbuck family adventures volume 1
Language
English
Description
In London with their family, telepathic twelve-year-old twins Liberty and July receive strange emanations from an early residence of Arthur Conan Doyle and discover a literary ghost.
131) First painter
Author
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her mother, Mishoo the new shaman, must find a way to help her prehistoric tribe during a drought.
134) El Pirata Bob
Author
Language
Español
Description
Describes the life of a pirate, named simply Bob, whose job is to cut the steering cables and cripple the ships he and his shipmates will loot.
135) Grace the pirate
Author
Language
English
Description
Grace O'Malley finds excitement and danger when she defies Irish tradition and goes off to sea with her father, a trader and pirate.
136) Puppeteer
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Language
English
Description
Text and photographs follow Paul Vincent Davis, a professional hand puppeteer, as he mounts a production of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls. Also contains the 3D feature film.
139) The royal diaries
Series
Language
English
Description
A look at what life might have been like for royal teens of the past, mixing storytelling with historical facts. Includes Cleopatra VII, daughter of the Nile ; Isabel, jewel of Castilla, Spain; and Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor, England.