Un Mal día para Mia (Mia's Bad Day)

Summer is over and that can only mean one thing for eight-year-old Mallory McDonald (like the restaurant, but no relation)--she has to go back to school. But not just any school, a new school with all new kids in it. To make matters worse, her mom is going, too! She's the new music teacher, and Mallory can't think of anything that could possibly be worse--until her first day.

"Milly loves to be silly! But when Grandpa's cat is nowhere to be found, Milly goes outside to find Lucky. Milly loves to be silly, but discovers that being there when Grandpa needs her is important too"--

De repente, sólo tienes el ballet metido en la cabeza. Y lo único que quieres es estar sobre un escenario. ¡Pero desde las primeras horas de clasae hasta una actuación de verdad hay que ensayar mucho! De eso se dan cuenta Susana, Matilda y Teo. Pero su primera función va a ser todo un éxito.

Marcos takes issue when the animal metaphors his parents and other adults use about him--such images as eating like a bird and being as stupid as a donkey--conflict with what he reads about the actual behavior of these animals.

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...

Somos vricolacas. [...] Usamos sólo una variante más de la tecnología de la que estamos enamorados para hacer realidad nuestros sueños, para consolidarnos como la pesadilla de aquellos que empezaron a rechazarnos cuando aún no establecíamos nuestra identidad. En un futuro cercano, cuando la policía investiga el asesinato ritual de una mujer argentina en un bosque de la Ciudad de México y descubre que ha sido transmitido a todo el mundo a través de internet, las evidencias señalan como sospechosos a los vricolacas, seres tecnológicamente modificados que reivindican a su especie con...