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Lois Lowry
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"Best-selling and award-winning authors take on the brave new world of middle school in this remarkable collection, brimming with humor and heart. Subjects range from peer pressure, homework, family issues, and cultural barriers to the unexpected saving graces of music, art, friendship, and reading. This engaging anthology, filled with texts, emails, formal letters, stories in verse, first-person narratives, and even a short graphic novel, shines...
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Nora, una huérfana coja es llevado por el poderoso Consejo de Guardianes a vivir en su palacio a practicar sus talentos de tejer y bordar. Ellas se da cuenta de que está rodeada de misterios y secretos.
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Nora is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
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Espasa juvenil volume 48
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Español
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Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 4
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Anastasia's seventh-grade science project becomes almost more than she can handle, but her brother Sam, age three, and a bust of Freud, aid her nobly.
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Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is, well, in a little trouble of late. She's elderly, sure, but she's always been on her game, the best friend any girl struggling to fit in could ever have. The Sophies drink tea, have strong opinions about pretty much everything, and love each other dearly. Now it seems the elder Sophie is having memory problems, burning teakettles, and forgetting just about everything....
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Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is, well, in a little trouble of late. She's elderly, sure, but she's always been on her game, the best friend any girl struggling to fit in could ever have. The Sophies drink tea, have strong opinions about pretty much everything, and love each other dearly. Now it seems the elder Sophie is having memory problems, burning teakettles, and forgetting just about everything....
70) El mensajero
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue, " Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Seis años antes, Mati llegó a Pueblo siendo un niño rudo y astuto. Pero, desde aquellos tiempos, se ha transformado en un joven honrado bajo la tutela de Veedor, un ciego que debe su nombre a su extraordinaria percepción. Ahora Mati...
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"En esta alocada aventura de la disparatada familia, los señores Willoghby, que se han pasado treinta años congelados en una montaña suiza, ¡se han descongelado a causa del calentamiento global!"--Cover page 4.
Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
72) Dawca
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Polish
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W świecie Jonasza wszystko jest doskonałe: nie ma bólu, przemocy ani cierpienia, nie trzeba podejmować decyzji ani dokonywać wyborów. Nie ma też barw, muzyki ani uczuć. Obowiązuje tu ścisły regulamin, którego nikt nie waży się łamać. Każdy zna przypisaną mu rolę w społeczeństwie i wykonuje ją perfekcyjnie. Dwunastoletni Jonasz ma właśnie otrzymać swoją i rozpocząć szkolenia. Wtedy dowiaduje się czegoś, co nim wstrząsa...
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Cuando los señores Willoughby salen de viaje, sus hijos se proponen seguir con su vida normal. Pero la aparición de un misterioso bebé, un fabricante de caramelos y una niñera con afición a transformarse en estatua humana echa sus planes a perder.Prepárate para conocer a los hermanos Willoughby: divertidos, unidos y chapados a la antigua.
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set...
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Espasa juvenil volume 177
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Español
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Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
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La comunidad donde vive Jonas es idílica. Es un mundo sin conflicto, sin desigualdad, sin divorcio, sin desempleo, sin injusticias, sin dolor... pero también sin elección. A los ciudadanos se les asigna una pareja, dos hijos y un trabajo. Nadie hace preguntas. Todo el mundo obedece. Todos son iguales, excepto Jonas. Al cumplir doce años, es seleccionado para desempeñar un trabajo muy especial, y comienza a recibir lecciones de un misterioso...
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In this thoughtful and engaging collection, 11 acclaimed authors explore the highs and lows of growing up and shining on in the face of obstacles. A parent's departure, a sister's illness, a cheerleader's breakup, a family's secrets . . . these stories sensitively capture the challenges—and triumphs—of finding the way to a bright tomorrow.Featuring powerful stories by Lois Lowry, Meg Rosoff, Meg Cabot, Melvin Burgess, Sue Limb, and more....
77) The Giver
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The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
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Children make terrible pets: Lucy, a young bear, mmets a charming little boy in the forest -- All the world: Story follows a circle of family and friends over the course of a day and shows the importance of all things great and small in our world -- Crow call: Liz and her father, who has been away at war far longer than she can remember begin their journey to reconnect -- Elizabeti's doll: When her new baby brother arrives, Elizabeti, a young Tanzanian...