Synopsis: Berto is an eleven-year-old boy who lives in Madrid, Spain. His best friend is Paquita. Poor Berto has one big problem. He does not like school. He does not like to study. He does not like to do homework. He does not even like his teachers. In fact, his teachers are really odd. Fortunately, Berto has a lot of good ideas. He can think of many fun and exciting things to do rather than going to school. His good ideas include visiting a soccer…

Synopsis: When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

Synopsis: Our planet is 70% water, much of it unknown. Super Subs explores the latest machines and the people that help reveal the secrets of the last great frontier - the world's oceans. Fascinating topics include: - how a submarine works - nuclear subs and sub hunters - rescuing a sub crew trapped on the seabed - deep divers and their equipment - exploring sunken wrecks - oceans in peril - a helpful glossary to explain scientific terms and concepts

Synopsis: Réquiem por un campesino español recoge un dramático episodio de la guerra civil en un pueblecito aragonés. Mosén Millán se dispone a ofrecer una misa en sufragio del alma de un joven a quien había querido como a un hijo. Mientras aguarda a los asistentes, el cura reconstruye los hechos: el fracaso de su mediación, con la que creyó poder salvar al joven, pero que sólo sirvió para entregarlo a sus ejecutores. El relato es de una perfecta…

Synopsis: Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. When she meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen--a vampire--her life takes a thrilling and terrifying romantic turn.

Synopsis: Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there's nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn't belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay. Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She's hiding something from Kidd--but could they ever be together anyway? Devon is mean, mysterious, and driven by a death wish. A best friend and worst enemy. He…

Synopsis: When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the “monster” is actually a…

Synopsis: Alberto and Pedro are good friends. They are ten years old, they live in Bolivia and they are classmates. Both of their fathers are famous scientists. Like his father, Pedro is fascinated with science. Alberto, on the other hand, is an artist. He draws amazingly well every animal that he sees. One day while theyœre playing and walking along the shore of Lake Titicaca, they notice a mysterious man. Combining their scientific and artistic talents…

Synopsis: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense…

Synopsis: A biography which discusses the discrimination faced by Jackie Robinson, the baseball legend who became the first African American to play Major League baseball

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Synopsis: Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an…

Synopsis: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting."An instant classic." —Chicago TribuneA “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the…

Synopsis: Written by experienced teaching professionals, this comprehensive reference work includes 601 verbs, fully conjugated in 16 tenses and moods, as well as more than 2,100 verbs which conjugate after the pattern of the model verbs. Regular endings are highlighted in the text, so students can recognize patterns, and mnemonic devices are provided to help users memorize verbs. A free conjugation app for Apple devices rounds off this one-stop verb…

Synopsis: The classic novel of hope, redemption, and the indomitable human spirit, from beloved novelist George Eliot.In this heartwarming classic by George Eliot, a gentle linen weaver named Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous theft actually committed by his best friend. Exiling himself to the rustic village of Raveloe, he becomes a lonely recluse. Ultimately, Marner finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an…

Synopsis: Publicada en 1878, “Marianela” es una novela por la que Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) mostró siempre una especial predilección. El relato en el que se hallan ya las grandes dicotomías de la obra galdosiana posterior: realidad frente a imaginación, progreso frente a ignorancia, caridad frente a justicia social extrae buena parte de su fuerza dramática de la figura conmovedora de su protagonista, que, enamorada del ciego Pablo Penáguilas,…

Synopsis: A Newbery Honor–winning installment of the Cynthia Voigt’s classic Tillerman series is repackaged with a fresh new look.Jeff Greene was only seven when he came home from school to find a note from his mother. She felt that the world needed her more than her “grown up” son did. For someone who believed she could see the world’s problems so clearly, she was blind to the heartache and difficulties she pushed upon her son, leaving him with his…

Synopsis: Si "El alcalde de Zalamea" se ha mantenido a lo largo de los siglos como la más popular comedia calderoniana, es, sin duda, porque su protagonista, Pedro Crespo, encarna de modo formidable el sentimiento del honor como síntesis de la dignidad humana. Pero no bastaría ese único mérito para garantizar la universalidad de una obra que incide en un tema tópico, a fuerza de verosímil, en el Siglo de Oro español. Es el arte el que salva la comedia y…