In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.

Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless trumpeter swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. La tribu de Karana ha sido brutalmente atacada por unos cazadores de nutrias. La muerte de muchos de ellos obliga al jefe del clan a tomar la decisión de abandonar la isla. Karana tambien quiere...

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Hace casi ciento diez años preparó don Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, director de la Biblioteca Nacional, una antología de las cien mejores poesías de la lengua castellana. La selección reflejaba, desde luego, su gusto personal, pero también el de su tiempo. Luis Alberto de Cuenca dirigió la Biblioteca Nacional entre 1996 y 2000, y fue en ese lapso de tiempo, concretamente en 1998, cuando vio la luz la primera edición de sus Cien mejores poesías...