El Club de los Aventureros y los hombres de plata

It’s raining, it’s pouring—this weather is anything but boring! In this lively fiction title, readers join a young narrator on a rainy day. Through engaging language and colorful illustrations, readers learn about indoor and outdoor activities that take place on a rainy day, and the importance of using your imagination! Readers meet a delightful cast of characters, who will encourage them to draw connections between the narrative and the friends and family in their own lives.

A Mr. Perfecto, como puedes imaginar, le sale todo bien. Él siempre luce estupendo, con un estado de ánimo fantástico y nada le desconcierta. Él solo se toma todo con una perfecta calma.

Aquí los relatos surgidos de vivencias personales, sueños e imaginación del autor, en donde puede apreciarse, más allá de lo anecdótico, una profunda crítica social, con planteamientos de distinta naturaleza: psicológicos, sociológicos y filosóficos. En estas historias crudas y frontales, se plantea la pérdida de nuestra capacidad de tener vidas completas, de no saber vivir sino por partes, con momentos desgarrados, con meros fragmentos de vida. Podrán no gustarnos, por no nos harán perder el tiempo y nos llevarán a una catarsis que puede cambiarnos para siempre.

'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....