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1) El dador
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Español
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonás becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Diciembre es el mes en el que se celebra la Ceremonia anual, en la que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonás, un niño que cumple doce años, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial....
2) Inverosímil
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Pub. Date
2024
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Español
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Una conmovedora novela sobre la familia y las pequeñas cosas que hacen de la vida una gran aventura
Marisa, la abuela de Dani, siempre ha cuidado de su familia, pero ahora que ha comenzado a tener fallos de memoria, son ellos los que cuidarán de ella. O eso pensaba su nieto cuando le diagnosticaron Alzhéimer: en realidad, sus padres planean ingresarla en una residencia a principios de septiembre. Indignado, Dani decide pasar el mayor tiempo posible...
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Everest
Pub. Date
[1999]
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Español
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Exquisitely written, this Newbery Medal-winner is a poetic, compelling, and often melancholy novel of a young girl growing up in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the Depression.
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Everest
Pub. Date
[2003]
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Español
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These longtime favorite collections are now available in Spanish! The stories in these volumes will scare readers' socks off with their detailed, intense prose. Great for read alouds, these popular books will stimulate and frighten young minds.
6) Trueno
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Editorial Everest
Pub. Date
[1996]
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Español
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A young Black boy, who loves both his father and a dog named Sounder, must learn to bear the achingly lonely weight of their absence, and accept the different pain and knowledge brought by each one's return.
9) Kira-Kira
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Everest
Pub. Date
[2006]
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Español
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Un relato de la amistad cercana de dos hermanas japonés. Criadas en Georgia durante los 1950s el principio de los 1960s, y la desesperación cuando una de ellas muere.
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Everest
Pub. Date
[2002]
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Español
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Durante la Gran Depresión, Bud, un niño que tiene 10 años, se escapa de su familia adoptiva y va en búsqueda de su padre. Bud cree que su padre es un gran músico.
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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