La noche de las hienas

Paul Verheyen, un joven belga que vive con sus padres en una ciudad del Zaire, cierta noche decide visitar un antiguo cementerio. Una vez allí, Paul queda fascinado cuando la figura de una niña aparece ante él. A partir de ese momento no descansará hasta descubrir quién fue aquella niña y aclarar así las circunstancias de su muerte, lo que le llevará a internarse en los peligrosos misterios de la magia africana

En un poblado de guerreros bowassi situado en plena selva africana, el joven Kabindji vive despreciado por todos. Cierto día descubre que su pasado oculta un terrible secreto, y, en su deseo por desvelar ese enigma, se adentra en compañía de una muchacha en un poblado perdido del que se cuentan espeluznantes historias. No tardará en verse enfrentado a misteriosas fuerzas mágicas tras las que laten el odio racial y la ambición de poderosos personajes.

Un nuevo videojuego se va a lanzar al mercado: Mundo Arcano. Antes de distribuirlo en España, Javier y su hijo Gonzalo quieren probarlo. Pero hay rumores de que el juego es demasiado real e incluso se dice que algunos jugadores de otros países han desaparecido misteriosamente. Padre e hijo se adentrarán en el mundo del videojuego, y el lector deberá acompañarlos. El lector elige lo que va a suceder a través de las opciones que se le van planteando.

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity. As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.

This is a story of three characters--Noah, Joyce, and the anonymous narrator--as each leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own personal songs of migration. All three end up in Montreal, each on his or her voyage of selfdiscovery, each compelled to deal with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree. Filled with humor, charm, and marvelous storytelling, this novel links cartography, garbage-obsessed archeologists, pirates past and present, a mysterious book with no cover, and a broken compass whose needle obstinately points to the Aleutian...

A 2014 report by the US Department of Education found that 22 percent of students ages twelve to eighteen had experienced bullying. This cogent narrative provides readers with supportive methods to help a friend who is being bullied and to promote a bully-free learning environment at school. Physical, social, psychological, and verbal bullying are examined, as well as cyberbulling. Readers discover the consequences of bullying both as a target and as a bystander. They also consider ways to intervene in a bullying situation, how to seek adult help, and how to be empowered and recover from...

Which animals and plants can survive in a dry desert environment? Readers learn about the living things that make up desert food chains, including cacti, snakes, and scorpions. Colorful photographs of desert life make readers feel like they’re exploring new parts of this habitat with each turn of the page. Fact boxes provide additional information about the creatures that make up desert food chains, and a detailed food web shows how these food chains all come together. The desert is an extreme habitat, and readers will enjoy learning about the extreme plants and animals that live there.