El Día En Que Llegaste

In the first of the two chapter books in this volume, Billie B. makes a second-best friend. In the second one, she has a backyard camp out with her best friend Jack.

In Del Rio, Texas, life is all about borders -- and what happens when you cross the line. A fresh new series in the tradition of Bluford High explores what it's like to grow up on the edge. In the Rio Grande Valley, life is all about borders -- and what happens when you cross the line. Nothing is simple in a border town like Dos Rios, in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Even for high school students Fabiola Garza and her younger sister Alexis, whose parents run a local Tex-Mex restaurant, Dos Rios is full of borders -- where you should go, who your friends should be, which boy you should date. ...

El abuelo Germán ha regalado a sus nietos un caballo de cartón que se llama Tristán. Todos juegan con él, incluso Germán, aunque sabe que en ocasiones hasta los caballos de cartón necesitan un poco de descanso.

This novel, narrated in two voices for their characters, playing strong themes that make up the life of a boy and a girl living in Havana, Cuba. Discrimination, sexism, harassment, female subjugation, homosexuality, are treated with subtlety through metaphors, pauses, silences and innuendos that make this a moving and thoughtful book.