La canción de la corriente

While Benjamin waits for his father to pick him up from school, he doesn't hear the screams of the kids playing dodge ball on the playground. The only thing he hears is, "a word. The word." Earlier that day, Benjamin beat his friend James while playing handball, and James retaliated by calling Benjamin "the word." With soft, watercolor illustrations that complement the text, Benjamin and the Word / Benjamín y la palabra is a compelling look at name-calling and intolerance. When confronted with James' epithet, Benjamin and the reader set off on a poignant journey to understanding and...

La enfermedad ha concluido, pero para Travis y su nueva comunidad la lucha por la supervivencia está a punto de entrar en una fase aún más ardua. Por fin se sabe quiénes son los responsables de la muerte de todos los adultos del mundo. Si los adolescentes quieren seguir siendo libres, deberán pelear? pero, ¿cómo? Su causa parece perdida de antemano contra un enemigo implacable; sin embargo, deben encontrar el modo de contraatacar, y rápido, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Antes de que todos caigan víctimas de la cosecha de esclavos.

The characters from The Lonely Mailman and A Mystery in the Forest return in a story about bullying and the importance of speaking up when it happens around us. A little beaver with droopy ears and a sad expression. A mischievous boar. And a squirrel who doesn’t miss a thing. Little Beaver always went unnoticed. At school, he always sat in the back of the classroom; in the forest, he would hide behind the trees so that no one would spot him. However, although he would have wished to be invisible, misfortune and setbacks haunted him. Little Beaver seemed like bad luck’s shadow. But... Why...

Esta tercera entrega de la Trilogía del Malamor concluye las historias de Ángela, Rayén y del peculiar poblado de Almahue y sus desventurados habitantes, condenados a sufrir el hechizo del malamor. --Page 4 of cover.