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Aunque cultivó extensamente el periodismo, la sociología y la historia, H.G. Wells debe su reconocimiento universal a su labor novelística, especialmente a sus obras de anticipación científica como La máquina del tiempo, La guerra de los mundos, Los primeros hombres en la Luna, La isla del doctor Moreau, etc. De su basta producción, se siguen leyendo con placer sus colecciones de relatos cortos, como La historia de Plattner y otras narraciones (1897), Cuentos del Espacio y el Tiempo (1899) o Doce historias y un sueño (1906). La máquina del tiempo y otros relatos reúne ocho historias ...

Ten leading contemporary children's writers from Spain and Latin America--including Eliacer Cansino, Gloria Cecilia Díaz, Gonzalo Moure, and Ana María Shua--have created short stories based on the UNICEF's Charter of Children's Rights. Each one lends itself perfectly for classroom discussion. The complete text of the charter is included at the end of the book.978846960124\\The lone tree on Peace Street is rather grouchy. He especially does not like it when kids climb him. When autumn comes, his mood sours even more. He becomes so dried out, the town decides he must be cut down. The children ...

Adapted by an award-winning Argentine scholar and writer, a series of short stories reflect the unique cultural life of the region that was created from a mix of the oral traditions of the native Tehuelche, the Mapuche who migrated from Chile and were called Araucano by the early Spanish, and the Welsh who immigrated to the region in the mid to late 1800s.

A ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the girls and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the Melfords.