A motionless shadow projected onto a wall in the middle of a wood. That is what the strange anonymous films that have arrived in Professor Martin Torres' mailbox show.
The Winter We Took Things Into Our Own Hands, literal translation but the Spanish title involves a play on words involving 'cartas' (letters) which are both a key feature of the book and part of the Spanish expression for taking things into yo
Uncle Theodosius has returned from one of his journeys around the world and has brought back a most peculiar specimen: a dodo bird, which everyone believes to be extinct.
London is a city full of marvels and mysteries, especially for someone who can't help sniffing out trouble wherever he goes. And it seemed like this was going to be a peaceful holiday.
All places hide mysteries, but the city of Oxford, with its secret museums and peculiar professors, is richer in mysteries than any other. James Moriarty tends to get into trouble at the smallest opportunity.
Rob has survived a tsunami and now lives in an attic, goes hunting for treasure in his boat made of polystyrene and is desperately in love with Lana.
How would you feel if your parents decided to send you to a boarding school far away from your friends and home town? Right. That's how I felt when I was thirteen: frightened, annoyed and excited, all at the same time.
The old nanny of the Morales family leaves, after years in retirement, to take to the mountains. When the family find her, she is holding two bundles, one under each arm: on one side is a deformed baby, and on the other a honeycomb with its bees.
Every afternoon Diana takes the bus home from school. One afternoon, she sits next to a really good-looking boy, but he has to get off at the next stop and they say good bye without exchanging names and telephone numbers.
Thirteen-year-old Narnel Mozart is the older sister of the brilliant composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like any boy his age, he loves playing and mischief, and what he finds most difficult to understand is adults.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...
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