Durango, Durango

«Si en Blackwood sólo hay cuatro alumnas, ¿de quiénes son las otras voces?». Cuando Kit Gordy ve Blackwood Hall despuntar sobre las puertas negras de hierro, no puede evitar pensar: «Este lugar es maligno». La imponente mansión le provoca un desasosiego que en los siguientes días no hace más que intensificarse. En especial cuando oye los rumores sobre el incendio que calcinó hace años esas mismas paredes. Entonces sus compañeras de clase empiezan a mostrar talentos singulares y a tener sueños perturbadores. Las voces desconocidas que susurran por los pasillos, los dormitorios...

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...

Un profesor propone a sus alumnos un juego como examen para aprobar las matemáticas. El viernes por la tarde, el profesor muere, pero, antes de fallecer, comenta a sus alumnos que el sobre que hay en su bolsillo les indicará cómo buscar a su asesino. No deben fallarle...

Joey is a kid with hyperactivity problems. He cannot pay attention or control his behavior, but he is not a bad kid. His mother, the teacher and the doctor are tying to help him by prescribing him medications.