Las Tres Llaves Mágicas

A Catalina le tiembla la voz cuando le pide al monstruo que hay bajo su cama que salga de su escondite. Lo que Catalina no se imagina es que el monstruo está aún más muerto de miedo que ella. Pero quizá la niña pueda ayudarle...

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...

When lan meets the magician, he decides to imitate him. Later, in his grandmother's house, with a scarf and a pair of scissors, he'll be able to turn the pieces of wool into black birds. Will they go flying out the window? Meanwhile, outside it is snowing white.

En la ciudad de High Norland, la joven Charmain Baker pasa sus días con la nariz siempre metida en algún libro. Cuando su familia la envía a la casa de un pariente mago, ella parte emocionada por vivir al fin su propia aventura. Pero a su llegada se topa con un confuso laberinto de habitaciones extrañas, un aprendiz sin maestro e infinidad de criaturas singulares. Para colmo, pronto se ve involucrada en una misión del rey por la que acude una intimidante bruja llamada Sophie. En definitiva, algo para lo que ningún libro la había preparado. La casa de los mil pasillos es la última...