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2) Matilda
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Follows the story of an exceptional little girl whose lazy parents dismiss her as a nuisance and who discovers in the wake of a cruel headmistress's bullying that she has a remarkable power with which to avenge herself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
When Tanner moves to an exclusive new town he misses his old skate park, but with the help of the town bully and another new friend, Tanner thinks he can figure out a way to get a skate park built in Woodville.
Author
Series
Las cronicas de Narnia volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Author
Series
Warriors power of three volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editoria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Firestar's three grandchildren, Hollypaw, Lionpaw, and Jaypaw, struggle to restore faith in StarClan as Sol works to tear apart the bonds between Clans and turn them away from their warrior ancestors.
8) Oscuros
Author
Series
Fallen volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Noguer
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Una familia viaja de los grandes bosques de Wisconsin para una nueva casa en la pradera, donde se construye una casa, conocer a los indios vecinos, construir un pozo, y luchar contra un fuego en la pradera.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
"Celebremos los niños de cualquier rincón del mundo, y algo que los une a todos: ¡sus adorables deditos de las manos y de los pies!"--Book cover.
Rhyming text compares babies who, although born in different places and in different circumstances, each have ten little fingers and ten little toes.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
George and Harold hypnotize their principal who, believing he is the superhero Captain Underpants, leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper. They must then defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Author
Series
Publisher
RBA Molino
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
"Vale, no os voy a engañar, este no es MI diario. Alguien (mi ARCHIENEMIGA Mackenzie) ha metido las narices en mis cosas. Preparaos para leer SU historia."--Casadellibro.
Springtime brings crazy adventures to Nikki and her friends Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Language
Español
Description
"Thirty-five years after Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle's first groundbreaking collaboration, the creators of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? reunited to address the important topic of animal conservation in Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? Spanish-speaking and bilingual children will love having the chance to ask Panda Bear, "¿Qǔ ves ah̕?"-- cover page 4.
14) Winny de Puh
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
Español
Description
The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Winny de Puh uses a balloon to get honey, Porquete meets a Pelifante, and Iiyoo has a birthday.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Publisher
Molino [imprint of RBA Libros]
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
Greg Heffley está bajo presión. Su madre cree que los videojuegos disminuten su capacidad intelectual y quiere que se olvide de la consola para explorar su "lado creativo". Y entonces descubre la vieja cámara de video de sus padres. Gracias a ella, Greg le demostrará al mundo todo su talento tramando un plan para filmar una peli de terror. . . y, de paso, hacerse rico y famoso. Pero ¿ir A TODA MARCHA con una peli es un buen plan? ¿O es la receta...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"¡¡Pi-pii! Es la mejor época de año! El camioncito Azul va repartiendo alegría llevando árboles de Navidad a sus amigos los animales. ¿Puedes ayudar a contar cada árbol verde? ¿No olvides guardar uno para Azulito!"--
The Little Blue Truck spreads cheer by delivering Christmas trees to his animal friends, in a book that includes a final page with lights on it.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002], ©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Only Captain Underpants can stop the three evil space aliens who have invaded Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and turned everyone into lunchroom zombie nerds. Captain Underpants is doing it again! This time, he has to defend mankind against three aliens who are concocting a diabolical plan to take over the world. Does Captain Underpants have what it takes to defeat this gruesome threesome? Read and find out!
19) Lyddie
Author
Series
Espasa juvenil volume 18
Publisher
Espasa
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Español
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
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