A novel that depicts childhood fears and the indelible mark that orphanhood leaves, by one of "the most outstanding Mexican narrators in recent years." (El Gatopardo) Óscar, María, and Román meet at a boarding school that for them is a playing field but also a bridge to the dark night of the soul: none of the three can avoid pain, and all three share grandiloquent fantasies. Together they take on loneliness and orphanhood, and the need to make...

Andrés, a poor orphan kid, and his best friend María live in one of the poorest neighborhoods of the city. Sócrates has been responsible for Andrés and has raised him like a son. However, when Sócrates faces eviction, Andrés assumes the identity of a wealthy landlord's long lost son to help his guardian out. El huerfanito Andrés y su mejor amiga María viven en uno de los barrios más pobres de la gran ciudad. Sócrates se ha hecho responsable...

Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together...

"Cuando su tío muere en sospechosas circunstancias, Alex Rider encuentra, a sus catorce años, que todo su mundo se ha puesto patas arribas. En apenas unos días experimenta una transformación asombrosa: deja de ser un escolar para convertise en un superespía."--Page 4 of cover. After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency,...

Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and...

It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.

"En una majestuosa casa del elegante barrio de Chelsea, la policía encuentra a una bebé en su cuna. Bien alimentada, cuidada y feliz, espera a que la cojan en brazos. En la cocina de esa misma casa hay tres cadáveres en estado de descomposición. Junto a ellos, una nota escrita con urgencia. Veinticinco años después Libby, esa bebé a quien encontraron con vida, regresa a una casa que esconde su origen familiar y el más oscuro de los secretos"--...