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Philip Pullman

FOR THE FIRST time, all three books of Philip Pullman's award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass) will be published in their entirety in one volume. Perfect for both new and established Pullman fans who want to read (or reread) the whole trilogy before The Golden Compass movie debuts on December 7, 2007, this handsom...

Philip Pullman

Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jodan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle—a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. And as she hurtles toward danger in the cold far North, Lyra never suspects the sho...

Sherwood Smith

Miquel Rayo

Kafka, Franz

Cornelia Funke

La tierra de los dragones en Escocia ha sido amenazada por los humanos. Lung, un joven dragón, tendrá que buscar ayuda antes de volar hacia el Himalaya, donde según las leyendas se escondieron los últimos dragones. Acompañado de una duende, Piel de Azufre, y de un joven sin familia, Ben, pronto les surgirá el primer peligro: Ortiga Abrasadora, un malvado dragón obra de un alqui...

R.l.stevenson

Con su explosiva imaginación y talento narrativo creó Las nuevas noches árabes compuesta por varios ciclos literarios. Del primero de ellos titulado El club de los suicidas nos regala dos intensos relatos llenos de misterio y ficción, Historia del joven con los pasteles de crema e Historia del médico y del baúl mundo. Las dos historias tienen como hilo conductor el desarrollo d...

A. J. Butcher

Boyne, John

Berlin 1942When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange pe...

Dumas, Alexandre

Las intrigas aumentan al aparecer Milady, una mujer bellisima, deslumbrante pero siniestra y con un pasado que ella guarda en el mas profundo secreto. Su habilidad le permite enfrentar las situaciones mas increibles. ...

Dumas, Alexandre

Verne, Jules (Julio)

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Riordan, Rick

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical.In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half...

Riordan, Rick

In this second installment in the series Percy, Poseidon's 13-year-old demigod son, is desperate to rescue his friend and retrieve the healing Golden Fleece--the only protection for the children in Camp Half-Blood. Adventure follows chaotic adventure as Percy once again battles mythical monsters in modern-day settings. ...

Jon Berkeley

You are the lucky winner of a Blue Moon Once-in-a-Lifetime Adventure. It'll be the trip of a lifetime The tour leaves from the Blue Moon office at 11 p.m. sharp. Groups of seven only. No pets.When the Flints win the trip to Bell Hoot, they board Captain Bontoc's Blue Moon Mobile with the expectation of a grand holiday. Then something terrible happens: Bea Flint's little brother...

El inicio de la mayor serie de fantasía de nuestra generación. Sembia es una tierra de riqueza y poder, donde familias rivales compran y venden todo lo imaginable, incluso la vida. En este despiadado reino, la familia Uskevren debe mantener la más escasa mercancía de todas: el honor. Pero incluso ellos tienen secretos, al menos tantos como enemigos. Esta antología formada por s...

Allende, Isabel

África Ecuatorial. Hasta allí se has trasladado Nadia, Alexander ysu abuela Kate para disfrutar del primer safari en elefante. Kenia es una fiesta de color: bella y sensual, una mezcla de sabores, olores y sonidos inunda cada rincón de esta tierra. Sin embargo, este paraíso también esconde sus sombras. Y la primera señal llegará con las enigmáticas palabras de una sacerdotisa v...

Kristin Cashore

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight — she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme, and in her case horrifying, skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug. When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with co...

H.g. Wells

De forma no lineal y con mucho suspenso, Wells cuenta la vida de Griffin, un hombre albino que consigue la invisibilidad a partir de un meticuloso estudio de las propiedades de refracción y reflexión de la luz sobre los objetos. Este es un relato apasionante de ciencia ficción, basado en la vida de un hombre sumido en la miseria y la rabia a las que la ambición, muchas veces, a...

Edgar Allan Poe

Misterio y terror son palabras que definen este libro; tenebrosas historias que congelan la sangre del más tenaz lector. Esta obra está dotada de una gran intensidad tanto en su juego con las pasiones sobrenaturales como en el escudriñamiento de las naturalezas oscuras de la mente.Leer estas historias significa una experiencia que se acerca a la poética del horror, el ensueño y...

Curdy, un chico de doce años, deberá robar la llave de Oro, capaz de abrir todas las puertas, si quiere saber el paradero de su padre. ...

Tyler y Lucinda se ven obligados a pasar las vacaciones de verano con su tío lejano Gideon, un granjero. Creen que se van a pasar seis semanas rodeados de vacas, ovejas, caballos y cerdos, pero cuando llegan al desierto Valle Estándar, en California, descubren que Granja Corriente no es, para nada, una granja cualquiera. Los lamentos procedentes de los establos no son de una va...

C. Alexander London

As the children of two world-famous explorers, eleven-year-old twins Celia and Oliver prefer television-watching to adventure-seeking until their father takes them to Tibet to help search for their long-lost mother. ...

Marie-Claire Pasquier / Barroux

Les Indiens du Guatemala qualifient de "huaca" tout ce qui n'est pas du cours ordinaire de la nature.Si une femme accouche de jumeaux, ils prennent cela pour une merveille et appellent Huaca la mère et ses deux enfants. Ce récit pourrait commencer comme la plus banale des histoires : "II était une fois Bruno et Yanka, un couple qui ne pouvait pas avoir d'enfant". Lors du grand ...

Yaël Hassan

Antoine : Je reste perplexe sur le palier.Qui ça peut être ? Et comment ça se fait qu'on ne l'ait jamais vu ? Bizarre ! Blandine : De toute manière, quelqu'un finira bien par comprendre ce qui se passe ici. On ne peut pas séquestrer une personne, comme ça, indéfiniment. David : il ne s'agit pas d'accuser mais de vérifier, c'est tout. Il faut surtout mener l'enquête et ne pas lâ...

Han, Jenny

Annemarie Wilcox, or Shug as her family calls her, is beginning to think there's nothing worse than being twelve. She's too tall, too freckled, and way too flat-chested. Shug is sure that there's not one good or amazing thing about her. And now she has to start junior high, where the friends she counts most dear aren't acting so dear anymore -- especially Mark... ...

Roderick Gordon

14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchan...

E. Archer

What happens when a science geek and magic collide?Be careful what you wish for. Really. Because wishes are bad. Very bad. They can get you trapped in fantasy worlds full of killer bunny rabbits, evil aunts, and bothersome bacteria, for example. Or at least that's Ralph's experience. He's been asked to spend the summer with his strange British relatives at their old manor house...

Lisa Yee

Lisa Yee returns to her core strength in older middle-grade fiction and the characters that made her famous in this "Diary of a Wimpy Trekkie."Entering 7th grade is no big deal for Marley Sandelski: Same old boring classes, same old boring life. The only thing he has to look forward to is the upcoming Star Trek convention. But when he inadvertently draws the attention of Digger...