Cuento de Cuarentena

The backdrop for the life and loves of a member of the small-town upper class is a village, population 13. With his feelings strangled by the snobbish standards set for him by his mother, all he can do is rebel on the inside. His only friend and drinking buddy is a retired sailor named Ismael. Ismael, no longer able to work and tired out by all the things he has done in his life, has returned to his home to die. But life, through the skills of an old witch, offers him one shady chance to become young again, which Ismael turns down. Hidden feelings in the heart of people who have felt how...

David is always about to reach a new level of a video game when his friends invite him to play outside, but while the game is broken, he discovers that learning to skateboard or play basketball can be like "leveling up" in real life. Bilingual English/Spanish.

Hay una multitud de voces diferentes que nos hacen cómplices de sus inquietudes familiares, de sus impulsos homicidas, de hechos heroicos, del amor, de la perturbación. Sin embargo, todos los cuentos de este volumen se inscriben en un estilo narrativo, en una coherencia de forma y contenido que sí busca la originalidad en lo heterogéneo y en lo turbador, pero siempre en un tono menor, sin estridencias. Me repito: como si narrar lo insólito fuera lo cotidiano.

Al final del año escolar, Kendra y su hermano Seth volverán a Fablehaven. el abuelo Sorenson, el guarda de la reserva mágica, invitará a tres especialistas, --un maestro de pociones, a un coleccionista de reliquias mágicas y a un cazador de criaturas míti