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It?s April of 1917, and World War I has reached Elizabeth?s family on their wheat farm in North Dakota. Although the battles are being fought overseas, the war has affected her in ways she couldn?t have imagined. Elizabeth is thrust into a new role after her brother and father leave the farm to do their part in the war. And she?s only eleven years old! Having almost died as a toddler, Elizabeth has been babied most of her life. Now she must learn to help out around the farm; cooking, cleaning, and tending to the garden and livestock. No longer can she run from her responsibilities, as she did when her horse Rosie was giving birth. There were complications during the delivery, and Elizabeth panicked and froze. The foal didn?t make it. Elizabeth faces her biggest challenge yet as a huge Christmas Eve snowstorm rages outside, cutting her family off from any help; and her mother is about to have a baby! Her brother and sister are laid up with chicken pox. Does Elizabeth face her fears or run from them? Can she help her family, who need her more now than ever? Or will she retreat like she did when Rosie needed
Abused and orphaned at thirteen, red-haired Rosso flees his Venetian village with only the clothes on hisback and his brother?s bitter threats in his ears. He becomes one of the hundreds of shadowy figures roaming the medieval Italian countryside, threatened by warring kingdoms, deadly plagues, and often one another.But Rosso is not one to give in to suffering or fear, and his new, independent life takes a turn for the better when he meets two fellow travelers who offer him the kind of family he never had.Rosso and his friends set out on a series of adventures that will test and bind them. The abused son of a butcher becomes a shepherd, a soldier, a monk, and even a spy. With each new adventure, this unlikely hero finds himself more deeply enmeshed in the intrigues that will define the future of the continent.Rosso is a delightful debut that reminds us that hope endures in every time and for every person who seeks it, even for those who seem invisible.?
Parecía una misión muy tranquila la que Tom, Josh y Annika tenían que resolver en la antigua Fenicia, pero... sin saber cómo, los tres son catapultados a la época prehistórica, entre peligrosos dinosaurios y Alteratiempos recluidos en la Prisión Cero. ¿Conseguirán los detectives volver al futuro tras sufrir el robo de sus espiralómetros?
La inesperada llegada de Fayna producirá dudas en el poblado: ¿de dónde viene esta niña?, ¿cómo ha llegado?, ¿por qué está herida?, ¿cuál es su historia? Ancor y Bentor se verán muy sorprendidos con ella. La acogerán en la pandilla que ya han formado y le enseñarán las costumbres de su pueblo. Ella marcará un nuevo ritmo de hacer las cosas. En esta nueva aventura, centrada en la vida en la costa, la verdadera protagonista es la historia y la cultura del pueblo guanche, como ocurrió en Ancor, vista desde los ojos de dos niños y una niña. El poder y el trabajo de las mujeres asumen una gran relevancia y dejan al descubierto la gran labor que realizaban.