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How would you feel if your parents decided to send you to a boarding school far away from your friends and home town? Right. That's how I felt when I was thirteen: frightened, annoyed and excited, all at the same time. When I went through the doors to Las Camelias, I had the feeling I was entering a place I would never leave. But then, well things weren't so bad.
The old nanny of the Morales family leaves, after years in retirement, to take to the mountains. When the family find her, she is holding two bundles, one under each arm: on one side is a deformed baby, and on the other a honeycomb with its bees. When the nanny insists on keeping and caring for the child, the Morales Cortés family decides to adopt him.
Every afternoon Diana takes the bus home from school. One afternoon, she sits next to a really good-looking boy, but he has to get off at the next stop and they say good bye without exchanging names and telephone numbers.
Months after discovering her boyfriend's infidelity, Elva is overcome by a deep depression. On the eve of Saint John's day, the night of wishes, she shuts herself up at home to drown her sorrows and reads that her ex is going to get married that weekend. That night an ancient comet will leave a trail of shooting stars in its wake, ready to grant wishes.
Thirteen-year-old Narnel Mozart is the older sister of the brilliant composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like any boy his age, he loves playing and mischief, and what he finds most difficult to understand is adults. He likes parties… but not the ones he's invited to, in courts and palaces. There, people look at him as if he's weird.
The Little Dream was nervous, he didn't know what to do there, hidden behind that Dark Nightmare. At the end of the day he wasn't expecting to become a Big Proud Dream, and especially not a Golden Dream, which carried the distinction and prestige of being a human's greatest wish.
Francisco de Sandoval, a young noble left desperate by his non-existent inheritance, finds a way to improve his lot: by abandoning his lover, Juana, and entering a marriage of convenience with Catalina de la Cerda. This will allow Francisco to embark upon a rapid social ascent until he becomes the valet and right-hand man to the king, Emperor Philip III...
The daisy is covered in plant lice! To solve the tragedy of his beloved daisy, the old man gets into a maze of problems that have an unexpectedly happy ending. Guridi illustrates this funny story by Roberto Aliaga with affection and a lot of humour.
A boy called Pedro leaves his home one night in search of his fire engine, and goes into the forest. Some animals watch him curiously. An owl, a squirrel, a hedgehog… He doesn't notice. What is Pedro capable of to get his fire engine back? Go into the forest with him! There you'll meet a whole pile of very curious animals and have an amazing adventure, full of surprises, with them.
"between snakes and strangers" opens with the abrupt, sudden, surprising death of the narrator's father. This tragic event marks the life of the protagonist, an extremely sensitive teenage boy, prone to illness, excessively spoiled by his mother and constantly overwhelmed by the world around him.