Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Historical - General

A coming-of-age novel set in the early 1960s in Minneapolis, The Summer Sherman Loved Me is an honest look at the struggles of a twelve-year-old girl that transcends time. As Margaret tries to sort out her strained relationship with her mother and her feelings for her neighbor who claims to love her, readers join her in her journey discovering what it means to grow up.

Young James, an earl's son, is a bit bothersome and always asking the oddest questions. Desperate, his mother sends him off to be educated at Cranford Abbey, hoping the strict regimen will do him a world of good. But Cranford Abbey has been falling into disrepair. The newly appointed Abbot Aelian takes it upon himself to save the abbey with the use of his secret weapon: a recipe for golden apple cider passed down in his family for many generations. Abbot Aelian has everything he needs--almost. One obstacle stands in his way: unicorns that happen to feast specifically on the golden...

How could such a sleepy little mountain change the lives of so many people? But change them it did. This is a story about Iceland and the Westman Islands in the days when there were no mobile phones, digital cameras, I-pads or computers. Instead of taking photos, children drew pictures. Instead of Xboxes and computer games they had mud pie feasts and played Cowboys and Indians amongst rocks near the sea. Barbies were the newest and most exciting toys around and all the girls wanted to be as curvy and fashionable as the glamorous little dolls. Trolls lived in dark gloomy places, sea...

La Historia no es sino una sucesion de acontecimientos unidos por el delgado y largo hilo del tiempo. "El misterio de la Reina Nefertiti," es una espectacular novela de aventuras donde hechos historicos aparentemente inconexos tejen una trama vertiginosa y emocionante que te dejara sin aliento. Su ritmo trepidante te atrapara y sus personajes te seduciran hasta el punto de que no desearas que acabe.

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Cuando los Wilford se trasladan a vivir a un viejo caseron en Londres, no...