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2) The power
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Una niña en la América profunda escapa de un padra maltratador. Un chico en Nigeria filma a una mujer que está siendo atacada en un supermercado. La hija de un criminal del este de Londres ve cómo su madre es asesinada. Una senadora en Nueva Inglaterra se esfuerza por proteger a su hija. Cuatro personajes que sufren las tensiones construidas a través de siglos de desequilibrio y amenaza estn dispuestos a llegar lejos en su determinación por...
4) Tenderness
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Lori Cranston is a confused fifteen-year-old dreamer in search of an escape from her troubled home life. She discovers and becomes enthralled with Eric, a young man with a violent past. As they embark on a harrowing journey, a hardened local cop, who has been following Eric for years, is intent on exposing him as a serial killer before Lori's fate is determined.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
Español
Description
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
"Anna Fitzgerald no está enferma, aunque pudiera parecerlo. Con apenas trece años de edad ha soportado innumerables operaciones, inyecciones y transfusiones para que su hermana mayor Kate pueda de alguna manera...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The new chapter in the terrifying horror series is a chilling prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.
9) Carrie
Language
English
Description
Carrie White, has a shy and awkward demeanor, obscured by the fact that she is "gifted" with awesome telekinetic powers. As part of a cruel and vicious student prank, Carrie's better-looking and more socially savvy classmates arrange for her to be elected prom queen. Once she is crowned, Carrie unleashed a terror that includes burning down most of the school and all but 11 students attending the prom that night.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
Life is a rough ride for awkward, friendless, 15-year-old Moondance. But when a Pinto pony named Checkers leaps into her life, Moondance pursues a dream she never knew she had.
Inspired by a true story, this family adventure features an all-star cast, including Don Johnson, Olympic-skating silver medalist Sasha Cohen, Lori Loughlin and Kay Panabaker. Life is a rough ride for awkward, friendless, 15-year-old Moondance (Panabaker). But when a Pinto...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debols!llo/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
En ocasiones, conocer la verdad resulta más doloroso que creer las mentiras...Eso es lo que la joven Sky descubre cuando su camino se cruza con el de Dean Holder, un chico conflictivo que tiene la irritante habilidad de despertarle emociones que ni siquiera comprende. Es capaz de aterrorizarla, y al mismo tiempo cautivarla, con una simple mirada o un roce apenas perceptible. Sky comienza a darse cuenta de que Dean atesora una importante pieza de...
14) Sleepover
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Julie and her best friends throw a sleepover to celebrate the end of junior high, they unexpectedly find themselves challenged to an all-night scavenger hunt. A challenge issued by the most popular girls in school. The girls end up hijacking one of the Dad's cars, sneaking into a club, boosting a cute boys' boxer shorts, and even crashing the high school's prom. It's all part of the fun.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tracey Berkowitz, a teenage girl who uses fantasy to help deal with life, goes on a desperate attempt to find her 7-year-old brother, who wanders away while in her care. Presented almost exclusively in a split screen format.
16) Georgia rule
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rachel is a rebellious teenager who is uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lily's San Francisco home. Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she'd never return, her mother's Idaho farm. Georgia is not your typical sweet and doting grandmother. She lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules, demanding anyone who shares her home do the same. Now Georgia is saddled with raising the young...
17) El blanco
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Description
After the death of her aunt, Emily finds that her life has been a lie and she has to search for the truth about where she came from and who she is.
Publisher
Sony pictures
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York City called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.
19) Mental
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Shaz is a larger-than-life free spirit who is hired by a local politician to watch his five peculiar daughters. With her unconventional attitude, Shaz gleefully sets to work transforming the girls into proudly unique individuals. But when a mysterious shark hunter throws a twist in her plans, it's up to the girls to change their destiny and find their own happy ending.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war.
Es 1889, y la guerra civil está elaborando cerveza en México. Una muchacha de 16 años, hija ilegítima pero querida de Teresita, del ranchero rico y de gran alcance pone a Tomas Urrea, estelas del sueño más extraño--un...