Resultados para "Limit" en Crecer y cosas de la vida

We watch videos on our smartphones and tablets. We read books on E-readers. Devices with screens are part of our everyday lives. But too much time on these devices can be unhealthy. This engaging explains how to cut the screen time.

Katy Carr is impulsive, gangly, adventurous, and brave. She loves clambering over fences, sitting on roofs, making up games, or going for picnics with her younger brothers and sisters. But when she has a horrendous fall from a swing she has been ordered not to play on by her abominable Aunt...

A Saúl le pasa algo que nadie entiende. Cuando algo no le gusta, se queda paralizado y no le salen las palabras. Quiere reclamar su espacio, pero no sabe cómo. Por suerte, Thor, el gato de sus abuelos, le enseñará que dentro tiene un gran poder: el poder de poner límites. Porque todos podemos aprender a decir “basta” y comunicar aquello que nos gusta y aquello que no.

In the tone of The Hobbit, comes the first thrilling story in an epic fantasy adventure, from a major new voice. Fourteen-year-old Oland Born lives in dark times, in a world ruled by evil tyrant Vilius Ren. Vilius and his fearsome, bloodthirsty army have wrecked the prosperous kingdom of Decresian, once ruled by good King Micah. Oland himself has been kept as Vilius's servant in grim Castle Derrington, and he knows little about his past - or why Vilius keeps such a sharp, close eye on him.

Today’s youth are facing a new set of challenges in an age where self-worth is gained by doing whatever it takes to achieve the approval of not just their peers, but also the world. This creates an environment uniquely their own, making it difficult for parents and teachers to relate and provide guidance.

Embark on a magical journey through the stories of "Smiles & Sunbeams"—a delightful compilation of ten heartwarming tales for kids, perfect for children's bedtime stories. Each short story radiates fun illuminating lessons of kindness, honesty, courage and friendship and features educational subjects such as teamwork, diversity and climate change.

In this first book of the Billy Growing Up series, Billy Field is uber excited at his approaching 10th birthday. Not only is it his first double-digit birthday, but he’ll be 10 on the tenth day of the tenth month—a once in a lifetime event. Billy’s invited his best friend Ant to his party. They’re having a magician who’s being assisted by Max, Ant’s sister. Granddad magics Billy’s present–a 20 note, but soon after the party, Billy has his money stolen by the local bully.

Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is. Modelling isn't a surefire route to popularity. Neither is making endless lists.

The people you love don't expect you to transform into someone else. Statistically you are more likely to not meet your Australian ex-boyfriend in Australia than bump into him there. So on the trip of a lifetime Down Under, Harriet's to-do lists are gone, and it's Nat's time to shine!

When 12-year-old Georgie makes friends with an eccentric retired scientist, she becomes the test subject for a thrilling new experiment: a virtual reality, 3-D version of the future. Then a deadly virus threatens to wipe out every dog in the country, and Georgie’s beloved dog, Mr Mash, gets sick. Which is bad - but worse is still to come. As the world is thrown into chaos, Georgie embarks on a desperate quest: to save every dog on earth and all of humanity....

Some people rob banks because they’re greedy. Others enjoy the adrenaline rush. Me? I robbed a bank because of guilt. Specifically: guilt and a Nepalese scented candle.... When 15-year-old Dylan accidentally burns down the house of the girl he’s trying to impress, he feels that only a bold gesture can make it up to her. A gesture like robbing a bank to pay for her new home.

A second mystery for 13-year-old Agatha Oddly - a bold, determined heroine and the star of this stylish new detective series. Agatha Oddlow’s set to become the youngest member of the Gatekeepers’ Guild, but before that, she’s got a mystery to solve! There’s been a murder at the British Museum, and although the police are investigating, Agatha suspects that they’re missing a wider plot going on below London - a plot involving a disused Tube station, a huge fireworks display and 5,000 tonnes of gold bullion.... 

"How little you know of your own father. He took something I cherished long ago and hid it away. You will help me find it". The legendary Luck Uglies are the most deadly, dangerous band of men Ryley O'Chanter has ever met - and her father, Harmless, is their high chief. Having been in exile for ten years the Luck Uglies are back in Village Drowning, but bringing them out of the shadows and back together was never going to be without its perils.

There are stories about people who want to live forever. This is not one of those stories.... Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except he's 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England. Obviously no-one believes him. So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance and a different way to live...which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die.

A traitor has seized Camelot’s throne, sentencing Tedros, the true king, to death. Tedros’s queen, Agatha, narrowly escapes, but their friend Sophie is trapped. She is forced to play a dangerous game as her wedding to the false king fast approaches, and all the while her friends’ lives hang in the balance.  

A hilarious fantasy sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm, set at the University after the ‘fantasy world' tours have stopped, and centered around six students (one a Griffin) and the bumbling new University Head Wizard. From the ‘Godmother of Fantasy', Diana Wynne Jones. The Year of the Griffin is the sequel to the Dark Lord of Derkholm, set in the same world several years after the abolition of commercial ‘fantasy world' tourism from our world.

The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world from which her mother came, and where time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen.

Of all the characters in The Seeing Stone and At the Crossing-Places, it is Gatty the village girl -- steadfast, forthright, innocent, and wise -- who has won the most hearts. This is her story, written down at her behest by her childhood friend and hero, Arthur de Caldicot. Gatty's dream is to follow Arthur to Jerusalem -- though she has not even understood that Jerusalem is farther away than Ludlow, and across the sea.