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La Moneda, September 11 is, above all, a collection of testimonies. Four characters: a waiter, a policeman, a recruit and a fireman tell us how they lived and what they did that morning of September 11, 1973 - the day when the Chilean Army decided, following an attempt in June, to depose, the Popular Unity government, presided over by Salvador Allende, with any violence necessary.
Dare to be different like the little black sheep! Every night, when the moon rises and it's time for the children to go to bed, Mr. Dream brings the sheep together to help the children to sleep, because everyone knows that the best way to fall asleep is... counting sheep!
We are Maite, Santi, Pepe, Valle and Sol, well, Sol is Valle's dog, but still one of the gang. We live in the village of Verdeluz and in school we're part of the Nature Class, where we look after the environment. One day we found a dead white tailed kite and decided to investigate what had happened. What we discovered lead us to form the Kite Tail Gang.
Andrés is fifteen and has just lost his father, Fernando. A respected police inspector, Fernando was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in the swimming pool of the Birmania Hotel, which suggests the possibility of suicide. But something doesn't add up: Fernando was optimistic and happy - why would he want to take his own life?
La Palma (1850-1946) is the setting through which Petra, the moneylender of Villa de Mazo, passes with the people in her life. The hunger that forces emigration to Cuba.
Vanesa is a modern princess but also a dreamer who lives in the clouds, in the kingdom of Babia alongside giraffes, witches and soap bubbles. When the time comes for her to marry her parents become a little anxious since her fairy godmother has posed a riddle that any suitor must answer to win the princess's hand. So, if she must wed, then at least he'll be imaginative.
In a Native American village, activity comes to a halt when Shep slices off the tip of his thumb with a blade. No one disputes that this happened by accident: neither the men nor the women who resignedly perform roles that no one questions; nor does young Shep. No one asks questions.
A tormented ninja. A hidden conspiracy. A dangerous mission. An immortal work. It is 1689 and the poet Matsuo Bashō undertakes a pilgrimage to the province of Sendai in order to finish writing what will be his most celebrated work 'Paths of Oku'.
Lucía loves the way Lucas smiles, the new boy in her class, smiles. She immediately approaches him because she thinks it must be hard to arrive in a new place where everything and everyone is unfamiliar, but as the days go by she notices that Lucas has grown close to Fran and his gang. This surprises her as they are complete hooligans.
Guillermo hates reading, but the rest of his family love it. So, living with them is a daily torture - like having to go to the library once a week, pick a book, read it and write a summary for class. What a pain! Then, one day, he discovers a tiny book hidden behind another far fatter book, The Zippoli Tribe. It's short, it'll take no time to read, he thinks.