While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers - but always embrace the unexpected.

While at Gold Ridge castle to the north of Winding Circle, Daja and the three other mages-in-training who have become her friends develop their unique magical talents as they try to prevent a devastating forest fire from consuming everything in its path.

Jacobo y Wilhelm Grimm, dos estudiosos alemanes, dedicaron buena parte de su vida a recopilar cuentos y leyendas tradicionales, y esa inmensa colección ha sido imitada por muchos otros ecritores, y asi dejaron bases para una literatura infantil que, sin embargo, atrae igualmente a los mayores, puesto que los cuentos tienen interés argumental y están narrados con conocimiento. Algunos de los personajes, como Caperucita, Blanca Nieves y la Cenicienta,...

No Roses For Harry!: Harry (Harry the Dirty Dog) is back and more fashion-conscious than ever. After receiving a comfy, but rose-covered, sweater from grandma, Harry determines to lose it. He tries leaving it all over town, but it is always returned?-- until a bird catches sight of a loose thread and Harry's luck finally changes. Miss Nelson Is Missing!: The kids in room 207 don't know how lucky they are to have a nice teacher like Miss Nelson, until...

Mother Moose Tales? The creation myth of Mother Moose? The Big Bad Pig? Rumbleshirtskin? Handsome and Gristle? All of those and more are served up here in the voice of Maynard Moose, the alter-ego of storyteller Willy Claflin. Willy launches first into a cautionary tale, Maynard's not-so-traditional version of the Big Bad Pig, in which the innocent little wolves set out to seek their fortune only to be attacked by -- you guessed it -- Big Bad Pig....

La anécdota suele regodearse sobre la figura legendaria de Homero, supuesto juglar ciego que iba de pueblo en pueblo cantando sus grandes narraciones épicas. La lliada, una narracion de la era de Troya, originada en el rapto que hizo Paris de la mujer más bella del mundo, Helena y La Odisea, la descripción de las aventuras del sabio Ulises u Odiseo en su vuelta a Itaca, su patria, terminada la Guerra de Troya, sus aventuras en el camino y su encuentro...

English for the real world teaches English the way you hear it on the streets, in restaurants, at the movies, and at parties: it's the English of your friends and co-workers. English for the Real World will help you: Meet people and make friends ; Speak with ease and confidence on the telephone ; Succeed in job interviews ; Get by at the airport, the bank, the post office -- just about anywhere.