Cornelius y la Estrella Perro

'Come, Jameela. Stand right here. I need to do something.' I grab hold of his sleeve. 'Where are you going?' His face is twisted. He doesn't look at me. 'Never mind.' Jameela lives with her family in a war-torn village in Afghanistan. Life is hard, but when her mother dies, and her father remarries, Jameela has to face a greater horror. To survive she draws on the strong sense of self that her mother gave her. Based on a real girl called Sameela, and a real orphanage, this unforgettable novel tells the story of a devout Muslim girl and what life is really like in post-Taliban Afghanistan....

When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want somethingmore.

A los seis años, Sky es abandonada en una carretera sin familia, sin recuerdos. Afortunadamente, diez años después ha logrado encontrar la paz en compañía de sus padres adoptivos. Al trasladarse de Londres a Estados Unidos, la joven empieza una nueva etapa: nuevo instituto, nuevos amigos... y nuevos problemas, pues allí conoce a Zed, el pequeño de los extraños hermanos Benedict, que insiste en que él y Sky están unidos de una forma muy especial. Lo que al principio parece una broma o incluso una locura, acaba dando paso a toda una aventura que cambiará para siempre la vida de la...

The personal story of each member of the Cataclysm Circus is told through each of the 14 vignettes in this illustrated collection. In one story Capirote, the human bullet, decides to shut himself inside his cannon and not come out, the entire circus clan comes over to see the big commotion. Not only are their lives intertwined, but so are each of the characters' distinct stories. A colorful microcosm, the circus comes alive to reveal what life is really all about. La historia personal de cada miembro del circo Cataclismo se narra a través de los 14 cuentos en esta colección ilustrada. En...