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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
Author
Series
Mississippi volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years earlier, John Waters had escaped an obsessive affair with ravishing but disturbed Mallory Candler. Now he has the uneasy feeling that the secrets they shared have resurfaced.
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG -- surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission -- is thought to be "a quiet end," he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of...
Author
Series
Fifty shades trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Cuando la inexperta estudiante Anastasia Steele conoció al joven, seductor y exitoso empresario Christian Grey, nació entre ellos una sensual relación que cambió sus vidas para siempre. Sin embargo, desconcertada y llevada al límite por las peculiares prácticas eróticas de Christian, Ana lucha por conseguir un mayor compromiso por parte de él. Y Christian accede con tal de no perderla. Ahora, Ana y christian lo tienen todo: amor, pasión y...
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Ser casi adolescente puede resultar muy fastidioso. Nadie lo sabe mejor que Greg Heffley, inmerso en el duro ambiente del colegio, donde los chicos bajitos que aún no han pegado...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A retelling of a Mexican legend that describes the origin of the Poinsettia plant. In this version, a young girl has nothing to give the Christ child, but when the weeds she carries in her hands miraculously transform into red flowers, she now has the perfect gift. Included is the music of a traditional Mexican Christmas song.
Author
Series
Fifty shades trilogy volume 1
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando la estudiante de literatura Anastasia Steele recibe el encargo de entrevistar al exitoso y joven empresario Christian Grey, queda impresionada al encontrarse ante un hombre atractivo, seductor y también muy intimidante. La inexperta e inocente Ana intenta olvidarle, pero pronto comprende cuánto le desea. Grey está atormentado por sus propios demonios y le consume la necesidad de controlarlo todo, pero a su vez se ve incapaz de resistirse...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Publisher
Molino Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.
Baile del día de San Valentín en la escuela intermedia de Greg ha convertido su mundo al revés hasta que un acontecimiento inesperado da Greg un socio para el baile y deja a su mejor amigo Rowley el tercero en discordia.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 19
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
¿Tigres con problems? Esto es con lo que se enfrentan Annie y Jack cuando viajan en la casa del árbol con Teddy, el perro encantado, a un bosque de la India. Allí los exóticos tigres son atrapados por codiciosos cazadores. ¿Podrán Annie y Jack encontrar la manera de ayudar? ¿O se los comerá un feroz tigre primero?
Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"En 1999, Olivier Clerc, tras traducir y publicar en Francia Los cuatro acuerdos, viaja a Teotihuacán, México, para participar en un taller con Don Miguel Ruiz. Durante esa estancia, Don Miguel brindó a Clerc la oportunidad de vivir una experiencia radicalmente transformadora y, al mismo tiempo, le regaló una herramienta tan sencilla como poderosa: el perdón. En El don del perdón, Olivier Clerc nos presenta una herramienta tolteca única y jamás...
Author
Publisher
Cuento De Luz
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Annie spends her days cooking with her grandmother and, although she can't see, she has the gift of being able to feel other people's deepest emotions. She brings those emotions to life with her magical cooking, which helps the townspeople overcome their physical and emotional ailments. But one day, Annie meets someone who awakens a boundless affection in her and who will introduce her senses to a completely unknown world.
Ana pasa las tardes entre...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"En este inspirador e inquebrantable libro de memorias, Jesse Leon cuenta su historia extraordinaria de resiliencia y supervivencia. Nos acerca a su niñez, devastada por el tráfico sexual, experiencias de calle y el abuso de sustancias. Nacido en San Diego, en 1970, e hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos indígenas y de clase trabajadora, la infancia de Jesse León fue violentamente interrumpida. Un peligroso encuentro en una tienda local lo dejó guardando...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the holiday season, a family of three, missing someone very dear to them, find their house filling up with unexpected guests, making Christmas memories to last a lifetime.
After their mother's death on Christmas Day five years ago, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people. At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe...
14) The Turner house
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
"Seamos realistas: Greg Heffley nunca va a dejar de ser un renacuajo y alguien debería explicárselo a su padre. Reulta que Frank Heffley cree que su hijo puede cambiar. Y para que se haga más fuerte, decide apuntarlo en todo tipo de deportes de competición y otras extividades "varoniles". Claro que para Greg siempre ha sido fácil eludir los deseos de su padre. Sin embargo, cuando su padre lo amenaza con enviarlo a una academia militar, se da...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta's gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure -- avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor. As in the previous cooking poems, "Guacamole" conveys the fun and pleasure...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Siempre hay la posibilidad que un dinosaurio sea mal educado, pero el dinosaurio en este libro ilustrado para niños sabe portarse muy bien durante la celebración de su cumpleaños.
Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the different ways a dinosaur can make her birthday party special, from thanking guests for their gifts to sharing large pieces of cake.
Author
Publisher
Blume
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
Español
Description
"Repasa algunas de las mentes más brillantes del pasado y el presente. Descubra los métodos y rituales que utilizaron para trazar sus trayectorias creativas, desde los más peculiares hasta los más terrenales. Disfrute de esta colección ilustrada de ideas ingeniosas para dar un impulso a su creatividad y comenzar a trabajar" --Back cover.
Great minds do not think alike reviews some of the brightest minds of the past and present. Discover the...
19) Sentenced to life: the Mark Becker story : mental illness, tragedy, and transformation / Joan Becker
Author
Publisher
Credo House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The author shares her son Mark Becker's story, from his childhood in Parkersburg, Iowa, through the events of June 24, 2009 and those that followed, using her family's experiences to demonstrate the need for reform in the existing mental health system.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante estilo de García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos es un canto a la vida, a la resistencia del goce pese al paso del tiempo y al deseo femenino....
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