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Jack lives on the sight of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.

Four inseparable eleven-year-old girls share the last summer before middle school in this charming coming-of-age story. Vanessa is an aspiring actress up for her first feature film. Lizzie tries to help her brother adjust to life at home after he returns from the war. Jess struggles to cope with her parents' separation. Peri, the new girl, hides a desperate secret. But as the summer unfolds, each girl finds the strength to face each challenge, knowing...

Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.

"La vida es corta, y nadie lo sabe mejor que Lenni Pettersson a sus diecisiete anos. Enfadada con el mundo porque el tiempo se le acaba, Lenni todavia tiene mucho que experimentar y demasiadas preguntas sin respuesta. Margot tiene ochenta y tres anos. Cuando conoce a Lenni en el taller de arte del hospital le ofrece su amistad incondicional. A partir de ese momento, los dias de Lenni se expanden como nunca hubiera imaginado: las historias que le cuenta...

"Trevor Benson no tuvo intenciones de volver a New Bern, Carolina del Norte. Pero una terrible explosion a las fueras del hospital en el que trabajaba como cirujano, le obliga a volver a casa desde Afganistan con graves heridas. La destartalada cabana que habia heredado de su abuelo parece el lugar ideal para recuperarse. Trevor, que cuida las amadas colmenas de abejas de su abuelo, no esta preparado para enamorarse de alguien del pueblo. Sin embargo,...

Amelia describes her many friends. Some speak Spanish and some speak English.

Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York City called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.