Resultados para "The Call" en Adolescentes

Fourteen-year-old Nessa lives in a world where every teen will be "Called". It could come in the middle of the day, it could come deep in the night. But one instant she will be here, and the next she will wake up naked and alone in the Sidhe land. She will be spotted, hunted down, and brutally murdered. And she will be sent back in pieces by the Sidhe to the human world...unless she joins the rare few who survive for 24 hours and escape unscathed.

The Panthers resume their duties as Rangers upon leaving the Refuge. A new mystery of foremost importance will be revealed to them. They will have to undertake a mission as complicated as it is risky. Will they manage to survive the mission? Will they solve the mystery?

En la calle Morgue, de la ciudad de Boston, a dos manzanas de donde vive Edgar Allan Poe, se comete el terrible asesinato de dos mujeres. Cuando uno de sus vecinos es acusado injustamente, Poe va a la policía y demuestra su inocencia. El inspector Auguste Dupin queda impresionado con la audacia...

Cándida tiene claro que el verano es para disfrutar en compañía de las amigas del alma. Pero sus padres la envían a un pueblecito de La Rioja donde vive su abuela. Y lo peor: acompañada de sus hermanos Gustavo y Alicia. ¡Horror! ¿Hay algo más aburrido que unas vacaciones en familia, en...

"La vida es así, rota, con hierba seca entre los huecos que deja la piedra de los adoquines." Vivir al final de la calle 118 no es fácil. La madre de Valeria y Raven las abandonó hace años sin dar explicaciones y ambas han tenido que aprender a ganarse la vida. Mientras Valeria tiene un insignificante trabajo como modelo, su hermana patea la ciudad en busca de hombres a los que seducir para pagar el alquiler a cambio de sus servicios. Valeria pensaba que todo seguiría así para siempre...

Buck is living the good life in the soft South, when he is snatched and transported to the savagery of the Northland, where the Klondike gold rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men - and dogs. He adjusts to the gruelling regime of a sled dog, which almost kills him, but he survives to find a new and fulfilling way of life. The Call of the Wild is not only a classic 'ripping yarn', but also an enduring masterpiece of the inescapable laws of nature.

Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer...and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed....

After so much danger, Nessa and Anto can finally dream of a happy life. But the terrible attack on their school has created a witch-hunt for traitors - boys and girls who survived the Call only by making deals with the enemy. To the authorities, Nessa's guilt is obvious. Her punishment is to be sent back to the nightmare of the Grey Land for the rest of her life. The Sídhe are waiting, and they have a very special fate planned for her. Meanwhile, with the help of a real traitor, the enemy come pouring into Ireland at the head of a terrifying army.

Listeners beware: In this startling world, desperate wishes have an unexpected cost, beautiful trinkets reveal appalling powers, and harmless pranks can go awry in ghastly ways.

Just one year ago, Neryn had nothing but a canny skill she barely understood and a faint dream that the legendary rebel base of Shadowfell might be real. Now, she is the rebels' secret weapon and their greatest hope for survival in the fast-approaching ambush of King Keldec at Summerfort. The fate of Alban itself is in her hands. But confidence is stretching thinner by the day when word of another Caller reaches the rebels: a Caller at Keldec's side with all of Neryn's power and none of her benevolence or hard-earned control.

Kateiko Rin lives a quiet life with her parents and her people in the coastal rainforest. Everything changes when her estranged uncle washes up on their shores, harried and half-dead, trailed by two blue-eyed children no one knew existed. To protect her family, Kateiko secrets away her young cousins. Caring for them includes hiding their ties to the Rúonbattai, a warlike cult trying to claim the land for themselves along with as many lives as they can.

The Blackbird Battle has left all sides devastated. The wind spirit Suriel has disappeared. A hard winter is coming, and famine stalks the land. Kateiko Rin returns to her people, ready at last to rejoin her community, but the dangers of the unsettled times come raging to her doorstep. Kako is left with no choice but to battle the forces that seek to open a rift between the worlds. Leading an unlikely alliance that includes her new love Airedain and her old one Tiernan, Kako must risk all to try and stop the coming disaster.

¡Shhh... Esos muertos, que se callen!: Comedia de terror para niños. La vieja fórmula que combina la risa con el miedo siempre funciona, si se es, como Miguel ángel Mendo, un sabio alquimista de la literatura. Onofre es un probo oficinista del que todos sus compañeros se mofan; su gran...

Premio Edebé de Literatura Juvenil 2022 Para algunos, la esperanza tiene forma de ewok. ¿Y para ti? Siempre hay razones, motivos, argumentos, pretextos, excusas para seguir vivo. «Una novela arriesgada, con un tema valiente y necesario hoy en día, que interesa y preocupa a los jóvenes...

Calla Larkenwood wants nothing more than to be a guardian, but her overprotective mother has never allowed it. Battling fae creatures is too dangerous a job for a teenage girl, and there's that special magical ability she needs to keep hidden from the Guild. How can she do that if she's working right under their nose? When circumstances change and Calla finally gets to follow her dream, she discovers guardian trainee life isn't all she hoped it would be.

Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith’s maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with her immigrant parents, her brothers, and her twin sister, and she questions why her parents ever came to America.

Countless years after the destruction of Earth, the last survivors of humankind are struggling for survival. Young psychic Axandra is the matriarch of the distant space colony Bona Dea, and host to a powerful entity known only as the Goddess. Trying to protect the people she loves but reluctant to host the Goddess, Axandra struggles with her fate. After discovering that she's being used as a pawn between factions, Axandra begins to suspect a plot against her.

Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore - not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn’t part of the plan. Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools. His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer.

Earth, not so very long from now: the silent, inscrutable alien visitors who bathed the planet in transforming rains have moved on, leaving behind a world much changed. Penn Roma, age sixteen, is blessed - or cursed - with supernatural talents she has always concealed. Her sisters, likewise afflicted, are prisoners of the Commission, the government agency tasked with controlling these strange children. Penn's determination to save them only gains urgency when she learns of the horrifying plans the twisted Warden Dodge has for the peculiar charges.

Born with the curse of prophetic nightmares, Jude sees violent murders through the eyes of the killer before they happen. His father, who shares Jude’s dark gift, has trained Jude since birth to save the innocent and to kill the killer. A life for a life—it’s the only way. But everything goes awry when Hanna Smith, the young woman he was supposed to save, rescues herself instead, and catches Jude in her home.