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3) La sirga
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Alicia is helpless. War memories invade her mind like threatening thunder. Uprooted by the armed conflict, she tries to reshape her life in La Sirga, a dilapidated hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes. There, on a swampy and murky beach, she will try to settle down until her fears and the threat of war resurface again.
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Desde que sabe que es hijo de un dios y una mortal, Percy Jackson espera que el destino le depare continuas aventuras. Y su expectativa se cumplen con creses. Aunque el nuevo curso en la Escuela Meriwether transcurre con inusual normalidad, un simple partido de balon prisionero acaba en batalla compal contra una banda de feroces gigantes. A partir de ahi las cosas se precipitan: el perimentro magico que protege el Campamento Mestizo es destruido por...
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After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return. Includes author's note about immigration from Mexico to the United States, and Nahuatl and Spanish glossaries.
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Bruno tiene nueve años y desconoce el significado del Holocausto. Todo lo que sabe es que su padre, recién nombrado comandante de un campo de concentración, ha ascendido en su trabajo, y que ha pasado de vivir en una confortable casa de Berlín a una zona aislada. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Shmuel, un niño judío que vive una extraña existencia paralela al otro lado de la alambrada.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place...
8) Daniela
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In her first year at Storm Cliff Stables horse camp Daniela Cruz is having a hard time fitting in, partly because her cousin Gabriela seems to be so much better at everything to do with riding than she is, but Dani is a superior swimmer.
11) Ciudad miedo
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Yolimar gets sent to Camp AMORS. She suddenly gets rescued Dino and Rina, former campers who escaped, and they reveal the secret of the camp.
13) El Heroe Perdido
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Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
16) La casa de Hades
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Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophecy of Seven must work together to seal the Doors of Death, and help Percy and Annabeth escape the Underworld in the process.
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"Una lucha milenaria. Siete adolescentes en apuros. Y el fin del mundo a la vuelta de la esquina. El destino de la humanidad pende de un hilo: Gea, la madre Tierra, ha abierto de par en par las Puertas de la Muerte para liberar a sus despiadados monstruos. Los únicos que pueden cerrarlas son Percy, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Leo y Annabeth, el equipo de semidioses griegos y romanos elegidos por una antigua profecía. Pero su misión es todavía...
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When Luci has an underwater crisis during diving training at space camp, she must conquer her fears if she ever wants to become and astronaut and travel to Mars.
Luciana Vega quiere ser la primera chica en viajar a Marte, pero primero tiene que aprender a trabajar en quipo aquí en la Tierra.