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Lola is excited to go to Guatemala with abuelita for a few weeks to learn about her heritage and see her family, but when she arrives, things do not go as planned, her Spanish is not as good as she thought, and she feels out of place.

Bajo el título de Novelas petersburguesas agrupó Gógol los cinco cuentos (La nariz, La avenida del Nevá, El retrato, El capote y Apuntes de un loco) que recogemos en este volumen. Dos de ellos se han hecho particularmente célebres: "La nariz", que empieza a apoderarse del lector desde el mismo momento en que un barbero encuentra una nariz en el pan que está comiendo, y "El capote", del que surgió toda la literatura moderna rusa, según aseguraba Dostoievski. Pero en todos ellos se advierte el doble interés social y literario, que hace de Gógol un clásico redivivo, y la vena...

A Caldecott Honor-winning tale follows the adventures of a little girl who finds the ideal birthday gift for her mother with the help of the kindly Mr. Rabbit.

A Special Prince Is Born Something exciting was happening in the big wildlife animal preserve. You could hear it first in the tumbling of the brooks and the waterfalls, and then in the rustling of tiny feet scurrying here and there throughout the forests and across the meadows. You could also see it in the bright green and yellow colors appearing across the valleys and on the lofty meadows, and then in the soft gold light that was replacing some of the shadows in the vast forests on the mountainsides. Even on most of the mountaintops, against the smooth, brilliant white of the snow, gold,...