Resultados para "Spin" en Fantasía y magia

Rosa è la perla della famiglia Masaniello: sensibile e intelligentissima quanto i suoi genitori e il fratello sono affettuosamente rozzi e scombinati. L’arrivo di una nuova maestra, piena di entusiasmo e di dolcezza, i dispetti di un compagno invidioso e l’ingresso in famiglia di un cagnolino sono gli episodi attorno ai quali si snoda la storia, che annovera fra i suoi protagonisti anche un folletto dispettoso ma dai grandi poteri magici.

Stormy is an orphan and a kitchen skivvy. He tends the compost, he scrubs the floors, and watches feasts make their way up the mountain as he survives on bread and water. A skivvy is all that Stormy can hope to be. But Stormy has a secret. He wants to be a sky-rider, to soar amongst the clouds on spitfires: flying horses that spit fire and smoke, and answer only to their riders. A chance meeting with an escaped convict turns Stormy's life upside down. Sent up to the Academy he uncovers a web of lies, deceits and neglect, at the centre of which lies the mysterious 13th horse.

The perfect cozy-spooky middle-grade read, these eerie, spine-shivering tales from Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Avi a include a never-before-published story. In this uncanny collection, children change into cats, a girl discovers she is invisible, a man makes a deal with the Devil...