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Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which...

Lo cierto es que cambias, tu voz ya o es la misma, tu ropa ya no te queda, empiezas a mirar con otros ojos a las niñas de tu escuela... Tienes otra energía, te sientes extraño, diferente. Es normal. Bienvenido al mundo la adolescencia. Ahora tendrás en tu vida miles de cambios. Este libro que te dice la neta sobre todo lo que debes saber para entrar a las grandes ligas del noviazgo, el ligue, la sexualidad, las broncas con las drogas y el alcohol,...

The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends and enemies he meets along his way. It is his journey of change and growth from infancy to maturity, as people enter and leave his life and he passes through the stages of his development.

A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.

Film based on the book by Norton Juster. What could possibly be inside that gigantic, wrapped-and-ribboned box? A tollbooth, a toy car, and adventure! Ride with young Milo through the phantom tollbooth and into a world that combines the enchantment of Norton Juster's classic children's book with sheer visual joy spearheaded by animation immortal Chuck Jones. A magical musical tale of warring kingdoms, fabulously weird creatures, demons, princesses,...

The Jungle Book key characters are Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and Sher Khan, biggest tiger in India. As Baloo the sleepy brown bear, Bagheera the cunning black panther, Kaa the python, and his other animal friends teach their beloved "man-cub" the ways of the jungle, Mowgli gains the strength and wisdom he needs for his frightful fight with Shere Khan, the tiger who robbed him of his human family. But there are also the tales of Rikki-tikki-tavi...

After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.

Just as he is about to kill a beetle with his shoe, Stephen thinks about where the beetle is going and decides instead to follow it.

Preferring to be a dog instead of a boy despite his parents' efforts to convince him otherwise, Harry barks, bites, and rolls around until he is sent to an academy for dogs, where he struggles to follow the school's dog-training methods.

The classic story of the flight of Huck Finn and the slave Jim down the Mississippi, and their encounters with the world at large.