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La historia de un sombrío y aterrador futuro Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante más de 10 años, y siempre le gustó su trabajó. Nunca cuestionó nada ni la emoción de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder hasta que conoció a una niña de diecisiete años que le mostró un...
2) La sombra
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Confabulaciones volume 40
Publisher
Editorial Eneida
Pub. Date
2011
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Español
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Cuando el que esto escribe tuvo el honor de penetrar en el estudio, gabinete o laboratorio del doctor Anselmo, su asombro que grande, y no podr� menos de confesar que, mezclado al asombro, sinti� cierto terror, s�lo calmado por la idea de que aquel hombre era el m�s afable e inofensivo de los seres. Adem�s, �qui�n ignoraba que don Anselmo no era nigromante ni profesaba ninguna de las endiabladas artes de la antig�edad?...
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Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
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Serie Harry Potter volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Con las manos temblorosas, Harry le dio la vuelta al sobre y vio un sello de lacre púrpura con un escudo de armas: un león, un águila, un tejón y una serpiente, que rodeaban una gran letra hache." Harry Potter jamás ha oído hablar de Hogwarts hasta que las cartas comienzan...
10) El Ultimo Coyote
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Edicones B
Pub. Date
c2005
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Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered with no one ever accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly...
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2010
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Español
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A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2008
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On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, land holders and craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening thread. But it has been over 400 years since the last threadfall, and some people have come to doubt that the menace will ever strike again. But F'lar, rider of...
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Rayo, HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
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Español
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Basada en una investigación meticulosa, esta novela narra la vida de Inés Suárez. Española de una familia pobre, Inés trabaja como costurera. Es el siglo dieciséis, y la conquista de América está apenas comenzando. Cuando un día el esposo de Inés desaparece rumbo al Nuevo Mundo, ella parte en busca de él, escapando de su vida claustrofóbica. En Perú, Inés se entera de que su esposo murió en una batalla, y muy pronto empieza una apasionada...
14) ADN Asesino
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
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A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence.
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2004
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Español
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A veteran of years of simulated war games, Ender believes he is engaged in one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth.
La Tierra se ve amenazada por la especie extraterrestre de los insectos, seres que se comunican telep�ticamente y que se consideran totalmente distintos de los humanos, a los que quieren destruir. Para vencerles, la humanidad...
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2007
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IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
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Español
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While working at summer jobs in San Francisco, twins Sophie and Josh suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book with formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
While working at summer jobs in San Francisco, twins Sophie and Josh find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists,...