Lisa Thompson
Author
Publisher
Planeta Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
La vida de Matthew Corbin, un chico de doce años con trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, transcurre en la más absoluta pulcritud e intimidad: su pánico a los gérmenes le obliga a vivir encerrado en su habitación. Convencido de que el mínimo trato con otras personas puede contagiarle alguna enfermedad, Matthew pasa los días mirando el mundo a través de la ventana. Sin embargo, un hecho imprevisto sacude su existencia: un niño ha desaparecido en...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"Sometimes I think everyone would be better off if I'd never existed in the first place."Nothing's going right for Maxwell Beckett. He's being blamed for his best friend's bloody nose — it was an accident! — his parents can't stop shouting at each other, and he just broke his neighbor's bright pink flamingo lawn ornament. So when Maxwell turns off the power in his school during a giant fundraiser, it's the last straw. He's...
Author
Publisher
Planeta Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Nate y su madre han huido de casa: él solo tiene once años, pero sabe que tienen que escapar, esconderse, esfumarse. Todo irá bien, su madre se lo ha prometido. Se quedarán en una cabaña abandonada en medio del bosque, allí estarán a salvo.
Sin embargo, cuando ella sale en busca de provisiones y no regresa, pasados los días, Nate empieza a preocuparse de veras. ¿Alguien les ha seguido? ¿Quizá estará también acechándolo a...
Author
Language
English
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Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Melody Bird is fascinated by the walled off "plague" house she discovered near the the graveyard, but she is even more fascinated by the mysterious boy, Hal, she finds living there in secret; he tells her he is a spy-in-training, a story that Melody's friends Matthew and Jake do not believe, and they set out to find out more--and uncover a riddle even more confusing than Hal's spy story.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film is intended to help coaches/teachers, parents, and school administrators educate students/athletes about the harmful effects of homophobia and asks the question, "How can we make sure that people in athletics are evaluated, not based on their sexual orientation or gender expression, but on their individual character and accomplishments?"