"In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl because my name is Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn't take long for us to figure out the mistake. And for the next seven years, we were everything. She's the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am. We only had three rules. No...

"Lara Jean guarda sus cartas de amor en una caja. No son cartas que le hayan enviado, las ha escrito ella, una por cada chico de los que se ha enamorado. En ellas se muestra tal cual es, porque sabe que nadie las leerá." -- "Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They are not love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she has written. One for every boy she has ever loved, five in all. When she writes,...

"This upbeat story depicts residents of a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, New York, who are dancing down to their neighborhood block party. From samba-dancing nurses to reggaeton-loving firefighters, this unique song-story introduces 10 kinds of Latin, Afro-Latin, and African American dance and music from throughout the Americas. Readers can count along . . . as they visit each floor of the building"--Provided by publisher.

"La historia, contada en detalle con gracia y bellamente ilustrada, de estos patitos que van de un lado a otro, se ha ganado el corazon de generaciones de lectores." -- "Story about a mallard family who make their home near a pond in the Public Garden in Boston." --

George Orwell's critically acclaimed 1984 is a futuristic dystopian novel set in "Airstrip One" (once known as Great Britain), a region governed by the oligarchic and totalitarian nation known as Oceania. The novel is centered around the main protagonist Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the Outer Party, and his secret defiance of the Inner Party and its omnipotent leader, Big Brother. Winston's society is under constant supervision and surveillance...

La vida es sueño, de Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681), es una obra teatral escrita en el año 1635. En ella su protagonista, el príncipe Segismundo, se cuestiona sobre el sentido de la vida mientras se encuentra en cautiverio. En esta obra Basilio, erudito rey de Polonia, ve morir a su esposa al dar a luz a su hijo Segismundo. Así este llega al mundo «dando de su condición indicios». Basilio se convence de que su heredero está maldito....

Sam describes in loving detail his car and how he drives it. On board pages.

This collection of stories includes tales about illness, despair, exile, and human brutality. The author himself compiled the selection. Held to be among the greatest writers of short-fiction, Horacio Quiroga has been compared to Kipling and Poe.--cover

"Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from Peruvian lore. To the creatures' disbelief, Benita is so absorbed by her book that she's not the least bit scared of them. This humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on taking the 'scary' out of monsters"--

Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...