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Auntie, who is a dog trainer, thinks Clifford needs to learn obedience, but to Emily Elizabeth the big red dog is perfect already.

Smart and popular high school senior Natalie thinks she has her life figured out, but everything changes when she meets a mysterious boy with nothing to lose. Keith takes Natalie on a deliriously wild journey unlike anything she's ever experienced.

"The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into...

"Kay Donovan puede tener esqueletos en su armario, pero el pasado ya paso y ella se reinvento por completo. Ahora es una jugadora estrella de futbol cuyo grupo de magnificas amigas maneja su escuela privada con una popularidad sin esfuerzo y un ingenio mordaz. Pero cuando se encuentra el cuerpo de una nina en el lago, la vida cuidadosamente construida de Kay comienza a derrumbarse. La nina muerta le ha dejado a Kay una busqueda de un tesoro codificado...

El Gusano de Tequila is the Spanish translation of the novel The Tequila Worm, winner of the Pura Belpre and PEN USA Awards. Sofía viene de una familia de cuentistas. Aquí están sus cuentos de cuando crecia en un barrio de McAllen, llenos de la magia de las tradiciones familiares: hacer cascarones de Pascua, celebrar el Día de los Muertos, preparar la quinceañera, disfrutar el nacimiento de Navidad, y curar la nostalgia comiendo el gusano de...

Cuando Stink compra un gigantesco jawbreaker que no le rompe la mand̕bula, escribe una carta de queja al fabricante, ¡y recibe una caja de diez libras de 21,280 jawbreakers por su problema! Este beneficio inesperado de actuar el arte de escribir cartas en la escuela seguro hace que Stink piense. Pronto, Stink est̀ tan preocupado por que le env̕en cosas gratis que pasa por alto un sobre garabateado en la pila de correo, hasta que su mejor amigo,...

A.J. and his classmates are convinced that new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.

"Aunque solo tiene cinco años, Matilda es una gran lectora. Todo el mundo la admira, excepto sus mediocres padres, que la consideran una inútil. Por no hablar de la terrible señorita Trunchbull, que cree que es una rebelde. Pero lo que no saben es que Matilda tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos... Un buen día, Matilda decide liberarse y comienze a emplear sus poderes contra ellos."--

"Sam, Antonio, and Lucy are passing around a soccer ball at recess when something strange happens... They soon find themselves in a fog-filled jungle! The grass and trees have come alive, growing high into the sky. And the friends discover that it's not just the school itself that's alive -- it's everything on the school grounds! Sam, Antonio, and Lucy must find their way out of a monstrous hedge maze in time to rescue the rest of the students!" -- "Algo...

After serving a jail term for robbery, Zequi is freed, only to discover his buried loot lies directly under a newly built high school gym! To gain access to the cash, Zequi cons his way into a job as Frida Kahlo High's cool new substitute teacher. But before Zequi collects the money, the ex-thief will have to face a class of rowdy kids and a beautiful teacher who just might steal his heart in this over-the-top and outrageously funny comedy.