Viaje mágico a África

Readers can choose between twenty-eight possible endings as they follow the adventures of a young man as he searches for the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas.

Set in Tibet, Lin Chu is an 11-year-old boy who has been training his horse to compete in the race presided over by the Dalai Lama, who, in this story, is also eleven. Lin Chu wins and the two boys begin a friendship that will profoundly affect their entire lives. This book comes with a separate workbook with fun activities to test reading comprehension.

The Lau family travels to Antigua, Guatemala to visit their cousins. Although the Laus are Chinese and Buddhist, they adore the pageantry of Easter, and Easter in Antigua is exciting, with long, elaborate processions of penitents wreathed in incense and carrying colonial Spanish statues down the cobblestone streets of the city. The best part is seeing the elaborate carpets made of colored sawdust, which the processions walk over and destroy. On the morning of the most important procession, the heroine is invited to make her very own sawdust carpet. But why, she wonders, make something so...

Colombina le escribe un mail a su abuela, octogenaria. En el caudaloso mensaje añora su niñez junto a ella. ¿Qué las separó?: el crecimiento, la edad, el tiempo. Son dos mujeres muy distintas. Una, libre y apodada suelta por su sentido caótico de vivir; la otra, más tradicional y cercana al mundo del hogar. Madre de muchos hijos, vivos y muertos. La protagonista en su vagabundear cita versos de Huidobro, Neruda, Mistral. Lihn, Teillier, Gonzalo Rojas, como también recuerda canciones de su generación y de generaciones anteriores, las de sus padres y abuelos. Colombina narra con humor...