De Victoria para Alejandro

My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.Well, some of her does.A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe. To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone. Told ...

Es en Nonquitt, en el sudeste de Massachusetts, una localidad costera célebre como lugar de veraneo, donde se desarrollan las historias reunidas en esta obra. Allí pasó muchos veranos Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), autora de la célebre novela Mujercitas, dejando volar su imaginación. Las mujercitas protagonistas de las tres primeras historias que integran esta antología —«Lirios acuáticos», «El secreto de Sophie» y «El debut de Debby»— aparecen como versiones actualizadas de «La Cenicienta», ambientadas en un escenario familiar para Alcott, y en las que se prescinde, entre ...

"Óscar es aún muy pequeñito, apenas está aprendiendo a reconocer por qué su cuerpo tiene una forma especial. Su abuelo le cuenta la leyenda de los tlacuaches y por qué es un ser tan especial. Acompaña a Óscar en el aprendizaje del afecto hacia él mismo y hacia los animales que lo rodean."--Progreso editoria website.

Astrid and Nicole have always been inseparable. For that reason, when Astrid falls in love with skating and discovers that there will be a roller derby tournament in their town, she is convinced Nicole will be at her side. Nicole, however, has signed up for a ballet contest with none other than Rachel, Astrid's worst enemy. In this multiple award-winning book, Astrid must discover who she is as a separate entity from Nicole as she learns how to keep her balance on skates.