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Mateo está acostumbrado a ser el mejor en su equipo de gimnasia. Cuando entra un chico nuevo que tiene más destreza, los celos de Mateo amenazan con desequilibrar a todos justo antes del gran evento: el Desafío de invierno.

Sydney Taylor grew up among immigrant families on New York City's Lower East Side prior to World War I and wrote the All-of-a-Kind Family series for her daughter. This sequel finds talented Ella, mischievous Henny, studious Sarah, dreamy Charlotte, and little Gertie helping Mama with their new baby brother, Charlie. Sydney Taylor's charming books capture the everyday life of a home with little money but lots of love and good times to share.

After moving uptown to the Bronx, the charming All-of-a-Kind Family has a new home, new neighbors and a lot going on! Ella misses Jules, who is fighting in World War I, Henny spills tea on a dress she borrowed without asking, Sarah works to win a prize at school, Charlotte takes the elevated train without paying her fare, Gertie make a pancake, and little Charlie is terrified when he meets Santa Claus. In true family spirit, they all come together to keep the house running smoothly when Mama goes into the hospital to have her appendix removed!

In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew. Thus continues the tale of a Jewish family of five sisters, Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie, living at the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side. Entertaining and educational, this audiobook brings to life the joys and fears of that time and place.

It's the turn of the 20th century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters. Follow along on their adventures and experience their holiday fun.

Alle können was, aber was kann Lars? Der Vierjährige verkriecht sich im Kindergarten hinter einem Buch. Kann Lars BUTNOT etwa wirklich schon lesen, wie er standhaft behauptet? ABER NEIN! BUT NOT!

Doch der phantasievolle Junge entdeckt schnell, was alles in ihm steckt: ein wahrer Schatz... Die Geschichten um den empfindsamen Lars BUTNOT bestärken Kinder in ihrem Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstwertgefühl jenseits von vermeintlicher Coolness. Behutsam regen sie dazu an, mit Neugierde dem Flüstern der eigenen Bedürfnisse zu lauschen.

To celebrate her 14th birthday, Sammy’s newly found, long-lost father takes her and best friend Marissa on a cruise. As Sammy navigates her feelings about this new relationship, she and Marissa become involved in another family’s bizarre drama which includes the mysterious disappearance of the wealthy matriarch and suspicious activity by the greedy heirs.

The town of Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly, like a flower after a cold snap. Businesses are starting to reopen, the school has re-commenced classes, and local farmers are gradually repossessing their land. But it's not the same Australia as before the war. A new nation exists just a few miles away, a new border that separates Australia from its invaders. Or does it?

With Father in Washington and Cuffy away visiting a sick cousin, almost anything might happen to the Melendys left behind at the Four-Story Mistake. In the Melendy family, adventures are inevitable: Mr. Titus and the catfish; the villainy of the DeLacey brothers; Rush's composition of Opus Three; Mona's first rhubarb pie and all the canning; Randy's arrowhead; the auction and fair for the Red Cross.

The second audiobook in a new series set in both a Minecraft-style video game world and the real world of elementary school where friendships will be tested, courage will be discovered, and teamwork will always win! Kat, Tai, and Alex are obsessed with the video game Otherworld. They strategize and play together all the time, but are famous for their arguments while playing. They can't help being passionate about what they love!

She's the lone girl on the Ashton High wrestling team, grappling with opponents who refuse to compete against her, a few who want to crush her, and a coach who's less-than-pleased having a female in his practice room. At home, Mel's parents forbid her from seeing her new boyfriend, her grandmother insists she start preparing for her future by taking a dready office internship, and her infuriating older brother, who's the varsity team captain, flirts with her best friend, Jade. Just when it seems things can't get any more complicated, an off-handed comments puts Mel at odds with her teammates, her brother, and her coach.

Return with Portia and her younger brother, Foster, as they rediscover an abandoned summer resort, consisting of deserted crumbling Victorian summer homes surrounding a vanished lake, which is now a swamp.

Claudia enters a contest to host a kids' radio show for a month - and wins!

Caje Amis and his father are mountain folk, they live off the land and have few interactions with more sophisticated people. But at the onset of an especially harsh winter, the two take shelter with distant relatives. The adjustment to their new life is an easy one for Caje, but impossible for his father, and the elder Amis ends up abandoning his son and vanishing into the cold!

Twelve-year-old Amy knows there's some connection between Aunt Claire's old dollhouse in her great-grandparents' attic and a deadly family secret from years ago. Aunt Claire seems upset about the dollhouse, which is a replica of the house they're in, but she's not talking.

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. This is the sixth book in this classic series. While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, a young boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time.

Mama and her two young daughters, Szerena and Gisella, never thought they would be without Papa for five long years. Ever since he left their small farm in Czechoslovakia for America, they have been waiting for him to send for them. In the meantime, with the help of family and neighbors, Mama and the girls work on the farm. While Szerena wishes for "a papa like everyone else," Gisella can't remember their father, and wishes he had not gone away without them.

This companion title to Trombone Shorty - Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Award, and Odyssey Honor winner - is a well-tuned, beautiful exploration of a beloved community as Shorty visits the streets of New Orleans to find answers on how to be a leader in his band.

Lars Butnot wird von seiner Mama in den Tanzunterricht mitgenommen. Lars freut sich auf das Tanzen und auf alle Mädchen und Jungen dort: ABER NEIN! BUT NOT! Aus irgendeinem Grund hält die Tanzlehrerin ihn für einen Hahn in irgendeinem Korb. Ist Lars hier überhaupt richtig? Eine humorvolle Geschichte über die Absurditäten frühkindlicher Prägungen. "Lars BUTNOT tanzt", die achtzehnte Geschichte der Hörgeschichten Reihe LARS BUTNOT, nimmt die Unterscheidungen von Jungen- und Mädchensport kindgerecht auf den Arm.

Hurra, Lars Butnot fährt mit seiner Familie auf große Urlaubsreise ans Meer. Kaum sind sie losgefahren, sind sie auch schon am Ziel. ABER NEIN! BUT NOT! Die Fahrt zieht sich ewig. Lars wird es schrecklich langweilig. Bis ihm plötzlich eine Idee kommt: Ein Reimspiel. Beim Spielen vergeht die Zeit wie im Flug.