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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Matilda está convencida de que a ella y a su gato les gustan las mismas cosas: montar en bicicleta, dibujar, jugar con cajas de carton... pero, y a su gato? Que le gusta al gato de Matilda?
Illustrations and simple text expose Matilda's attempts to learn what her cat likes best, as well as the real answer.
2) Matilda
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Matilda uses her telekentic powers to get even with her parents, her brother and the evil school principal and also helps her friends and a caring teacher.
3) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Follows the story of an exceptional little girl whose lazy parents dismiss her as a nuisance and who discovers in the wake of a cruel headmistress's bullying that she has a remarkable power with which to avenge herself.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In this new collection, Jimmy Santiago Baca, award-winning poet and memoirist, maps the territory where Old World traditions contend with New World ambitions, and disenfranchised characters struggle to make something of themselves in the world while somehow keeping their souls intact.
Author
Description
"The ancient settlement of Zuni Pueblo has seen many visitors over the centuries, from Spanish conquistadors to tourists from around the world. For more than a century, it has also drawn great attention from anthropologists, three of whom - Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Frank Hamilton Cushing, and Stewart Culin - brought remarkably different views of the Zuni people to the professional literature. In this study, historian Eliza McFeely considers the work...
6) Nanny McPhee
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly, but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
Author
Pub. Date
2002, c1991
Description
Spanish translation of "The two towers". Part 2 of "The Lord of the rings". Frodo and his companions continue their journey to the Cracks of Doom where Frodo must destroy the Ring. They are followed wherever they go by a mysterious creeping figure.
La Compañía se ha disuelto y sus integrantes emprenden caminos separados. Frodo y Sam continúan solos por su viaje a lo largo del gran río Anduin, perseguidos por la sombra misteriosa de un ser extraño...
11) Rings
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen until now.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A playboy and an interior decorator develop a dislike for each other when they share a party line, until he sees her for the first time and begins to romance her with a different identity; rivals from competing advertising agencies try to win the same client; a happily married hypochondriac thinks he is dying and tries to find a suitable new spouse for his unsuspecting wife; when housewife Beverly Boyer suddenly becomes famous as the spokesperson...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When Nanny McPhee appears at the farmhouse door of a busy young mother Isabel Green, she discovers that Mrs. Green's children are in an all-out household war with their two spoiled city cousins. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and an elephant that turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to show the children five valuable lessons, the most important of which...