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The four March sisters experience joys and sorrows as they grow into young women in nineteenth century New England.

A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect and becomes alienated and an object of disgrace to his family.

Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, his circumstances much improved.

"When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the mansion next to his modest house is home to the ostentatiously wealthy Jay Gatsby. When Gatsby shows intense interest in Nick's cousin Daisy Buchanan, her husband, Tom, begins probing into Gatsby's background with dangerous earnestness"--Dust jacket.

" In Ender's Game, the world's most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training academy. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life. After the life-changing events of those years, these children--now teenagers--must leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years--where do they go now? What can they do? Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he's ever known to begin a relativistic--and revelatory--journey beyond the stars"--Barnes & Noble.

Barbie takes the starring role in a story of mermaid adventure.

The latest career-themed reader based on the Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures series depicts a concert by a favorite pop star who teaches Barbie and her friend Daisy about writing music, playing instruments, and singing in harmony.

Amelia Bedelia helps with the school newspaper--to rave reviews.

Ser casi adolescente puede resultar muy fastidioso. Nadie lo sabe mejor que Greg Heffley, inmerso en el duro ambiente del colegio, donde los chicos bajitos que a?n no han dado el estir?n tienen que compartir los pasillos con grandulones que ya se afeitan dos veces al d?a. En Diario del Wimpy Kid, el escritor y dibujante Jeff Kinney nos presenta a su antih?roe. Como este dice en su diario: "No creas que voy a estar todo el tiempo Mi querido diario por aqu? y Mi querido diario por all?". Por suerte para todos, lo que Greg Heffley dice que va a hacer y lo que realmente hace son cosas muy diferentes.