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"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
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"Percy Jackson, a modern-day demigod, tells the origin stories of the gods of Olympus and provides an insider's point of view - with plenty of attitude - in this illustrated collection"--
"A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they...
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"After fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends fail to keep a prophecy from the Sleeper, they undergo a rebranding campaign to prove the Pandavas's trustworthiness, but Aru believes they need to focus on finding the Tree of Wishes before the Sleeper and stopping war between the devas and the demons." --
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"Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy --
5) Dragon Pearl
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Thousand worlds ; 1
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"Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces." --
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"Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...
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"Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy." --
8) Stone soup
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Three wise monks trick a poor, frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Percy Jackson in Odd Gods, the critically acclaimed and hilarious illustrated series about the middle school gods you never hear about in myths. In book two, Oddonis must embark on the strangest odyssey ever to save Zeus from the world's cutest curse.
Sometimes it feels like Oddonis can't do anything right. Especially compared to his literally perfect twin brother, Adonis. But this time, Oddonis has really messed up by...
10) Antigone
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"Presents a modern interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone and includes explanatory notes on the text and mythological content." --
11) The burning
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Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies against the Pure Ones who are about to launch another deadly attack against the great tree.
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"Y ahora el rey y la reina, habiendo dado un beso de despedida a su hija sin despertarla, abandonaron el castillo y dieron órdenes que nadie se acercara." Dotada de belleza infinita, bendita por hadas provenientes de las esquinas más remotas del mundo y maldita por una antigua magia, presencia el icónico cuento de hadas en su versión original, escrita por el fundador de los cuentos de hadas. La inolvidable historia de la princesa más conocida...
19) The swineherd
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A prince disguises himself as a swineherd and learns the true character of the princess he desires. After the author of this story finishes relating it, his animal audience presents an alternative ending.
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Editorial Edebé Chile
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2016
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Desde que el mundo es mundo el hombre ha mirado con asombro, miedo y reverencia todo aquello que no comprende, sobre todo los fenómenos de la naturaleza. Desde siempre, también, ha contado cuentos y se ha contado cuentos. Surgen así los mitos, las leyendas sobre la existencia de seres con poderes sobre naturales que esconden o resuelven muchas de las cuestiones fundamentales que se plantean los humanos desde que están sobre la Tierra. La imaginación
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