El Patito Feo

A tiny girl the size of a thumb is stolen and must escape in turn from a calculating mother toad, a bumblebee, a rat, and finally a mole with marriage on his mind.

"Inocente, sin complicaciones e irresistible. La historia se hornea a la perfección: un crush que se convierte en enamoramiento, y más tarde en un gran amor, que tiene como escenario una panadería con hornos calientes, estantes abarrotados y deliciosos postres griegos". — Los Angeles Review of Books Ari terminó la preparatoria y está listo para comenzar su vida: mudarse a la gran ciudad, triunfar con su banda ultra cool y, sobre todo, dejar la panadería familiar, si logra convencer a su papá. Cuando era niño disfrutaba trabajar ahí, pero ahora no se imagina pasar el resto de sus...

Count the number of animals that come to drink from the waterhole. As the animals drink, the waterhole becomes smaller and smaller until it disappears.

Adnan Zakaria's family recently fled Syria and resettled in America. Adnan feels like a stranger in a strange land. He's lonely and homesick. The one thing that gives him comfort is his best friend's skateboard that he brought with him from Syria. As Adnan navigates his new community, he bonds with new friends at a local skatepark. But he also faces adversity in the form of local troublemaker Mike Proctor. After Adnan loses his precious skateboard one evening, he learns that Mike Proctor has it and won't give it up without a challenge. Will Adnan be able to out-skate his foe and reclaim his...

A day at the beach is no fun if it's raining. In this illustrated story, the main character and her cousin make the most of a rainy day by staying indoors and doing a special craft project together. Readers follow along as the two girls construct and decorate their very own kites. Accessible text is perfect for beginning readers, and close picture-text correlation fosters reading comprehension skills. After reading about this fun craft project, children will be excited to stay inside the next time it rains.