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541) Flawed dogs
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After being framed by a jealous poodle, a dachshund is left for dead, but comes back with a group of mutts from the National Last Ditch Dog Depository to disrupt the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club dog show and exact revenge on Cassius the poodle.
543) Dragonero despega
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Eduardo le escribe un correo electronico a su tio Manuel pidiendo auxilio. Resulta que en su jardin aparece un dragón enormey necesitan su ayuda para lograr que se vaya.
Uncle Manuel leaves his dragon Ziggy with Eduardo while he goes to a retreat. Eduardo discovers that Ziggy is actually a girl dragon when she lays an egg in the linen closet and, days later, out hatches a baby dragon. In this hilarious book, told through a series of emails, Eduardo...
544) Mansfield Park
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La joven tímida Fanny Price es enviada a vivir con parientes adinerados en Mansfield Park, donde de sus cuatro primos solo Edmund le muestra algo de amabilidad. Cuando el rico y coqueto Henry Crawford y su vivaz hermana Mary llegan al vecindario, el mundo de Fanny se desmorona. Edmund cae bajo el hechizo de Mary mientras Henry declara su amor por Fanny, pero el camino hacia la felicidad no transcurre sin problemas.
Shy young Fanny Price is sent...
545) Primrose day
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During World War II, seven-year-old Merry Primrose Ramsay is sent from England to live with relatives in the United States, where, despite missing her parents and feeling homesick, she has many adventures while going to school and learning to fish and knit.
546) La flecha plateada
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Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don't have much to look forward to. Why can't Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane -- that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert, whom she's never even met before, surprises her with the most unexpected,...
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Don Rosa library volume 4
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"Uncle Scrooge, the world's richest duck, knows exactly where he got every coin he ever earned. And in this fourth book of Duck epics by Don Rosa, that story begins to unfold at last! Relive Scrooge's Scottish boyhood as "Last of the Clan McDuck, " then his teenage years as "Master of the Mississippi" on Uncle Pothole's steamboat! Witness Scrooge's first fights with the Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold - and in a bonus "Chapter 0, " his earliest...
548) La jardinera
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A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
"Lydia Gracia llega del luminoso campo a la gran ciudad para vivir con un tío que no conoce y que nunca sonríe. Lydia es alegre y animosa y se propone dos cosas: cambiar el aspecto sombrío de la casa y hacer sonreír al tío Jim. Para lograrlo, recurre a sus talentos...
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"Sixteen-year-old Walt thinks he's left his problems behind him when he runs away from a broken home to live with his eccentric uncle. The simple, semi-rural, semi-anti-social lifestyle seems at first to be exactly what Walt wants, but he soon learns his new life isn't just about ditching school and drinking beer with his friends. Uncle Brucker is a Rat Killer; a tireless rat tracker, an expert in rat lore, a speaker of the rat language, and a decorated...
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The house with a clock in its walls: This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
Casper: Determined to get her hands on her father's hidden fortune, Carrigan is forced to hire an afterlife...
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Treasure chest (Ann Hood) volume 4
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Twins Felix and Maisie, along with their Great-Aunt Maisie and Great-Uncle Thorne, are transported back in time to Coney Island where they meet a young Harry Houdini.
556) Wynajęta narzeczona
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Po śmierci ojczyma-utracjusza lady Eleonora zostaje bez groszai bez dachu nad głową. Propozycja pracy spada jak z nieba.Po tajemniczej śmierci ukochanego stryja hrabia Lancaster postanawiasam tropić mordercę. A ze znacznie mniej tajemniczegozniknięcia narzeczonej, która odeszła z innym, wyciąga praktycznewnioski. Hrabia Lancaster zapłaci Eleonorze za to, by odegrała rolę jegonarzeczonej. A on dzięki temu zrealizuje swój plan. Eleonora...
557) El color del aire
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De la autora superventas del New York Times de Las mujeres de la seda y El jardín de los samuráis, llega una hermosa y evocadora novela histórica sobre una familia estadounidense de origen japonés que tiene como telón de fondo las plantaciones de azúcar de Hawái. Daniel Abe, un joven médico de Chicago, finalmente regresa a Hawái. Él tiene su propia razón para regresar a la casa de su infancia, pero no es para volver a visitar el pasado,...
558) Acampada
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"Uncle Alex ha llevado a los gemelos en una excursión de acampada en el bosque. Todo va muy bien hasta que descubren que su campamento perfecto ha side arruinado por la vida silvestre."-- Backcover.
Tío Alex has taken the twins on a camping trip in the woods. Everything is going great until they discover their perfect campsite has been ruined by wildlife.
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Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews are off on more adventures in these tales from around the world. When Brigitta MacBridge and Huey, Dewey, and Louie find a centuries-old insect with a built-in Columbus-era treasure map, how can Scrooge McDuck not try to cash in? Then it's Scrooge and John D. Rockerduck vs. the Beagle Boys in "The Villainous Vase Case
560) La cala del muerto
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RESUMEN: Cuando la huérfana de 11 años Laura Marlin deja el orfanato donde ha estado viviendo para irse a vivir con su tío en Cornualles, está convencida de que por fin le espera una vida llena de aventuras. Pero lo que encuentra son misterios, los cuales son más peligrosos de lo que podría imaginar. ¿Por qué el tío Calvin oculta su pasado? ¿Qué secreto esconde la cala del Muerto? Esta emocionante novela detectivesca atrae a los niños...
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