Soledad Sigh-sighs

Bilingual English/Spanish. A tender story about a boy struggling to express his love for his mother and her partner in a nontraditional family.

¿Pueden ser, las mejores amigas, las mejores rivales, también? ¡Empieza la competición! Maïna ve cómo se cumple su sueño de ser bailarina al convertirse, junto a su grupo de amigos y amigas, en una de las afortunadas alumnas de la escuela de ballet de la Ópera de París. Cuando la profesora les da la noticia de que solo dos bailarinas serán seleccionadas para bailar con la compañía de la Ópera en el palacio Garnier, Maïna se encuentra ante la decisión más difícil de su vida.

This book talks about the work necessary to take care for a guinea pig, as well as some of their common behaviors. Readers will meet Miranda, who has a guinea pig name Griswold. Griswold was adopted from an animal shelter. He loves to dig around in his bedding and hide in his igloo. When Griswold gets excited, he likes to jump up and down in his cage and squeak. Miranda thinks this is funny. Miranda likes taking care of Griswold. She feeds him timothy hay and baby carrots. Illustrations and manageable text are ideal for emerging readers and young listeners.

Thirteen-year-old Hannah Higgins is convinced her summer is ruined when she is forced to travel to Africa and work in a remote village in Kenya with her mom and uncle. Never having been to a developing country, she finds the food gross and the community filthy. She has to live without electricity or running water. Then she is told she must attend school. Just when she thinks nothing could make this trip any worse, she learns people there are dying of hunger and preventable disease. Hannah becomes frustrated and wants to help, but when poverty threatens the lives of people she loves, all she...

Secretos. Un pequeño pueblo de Texano, un asesino serial, romance... este libro va a mantenerte despierto toda la noche. La animadora de diez y siete años de edad, Erin Hortz, debería estar preparándose para el mayor espectáculo de su vida, el cual podría ser tu ticket fuera del pequeño pueblo de Texas. Pero con su padre como sospechoso de ser un asesino serial, ella pasa por un momento muy difícil intentando no perder la cabeza. Especialmente alrededor de la antigua estrella del futbol Dimitri Kuvlev: el hermano de su mejor amiga, Nadia, su crush desde siempre, el cual se hizo un...