La ciudad del agua / Mystic City

Monster storms closed the school for three days. ¿Carpets bubbled with mud. Green slime swallowed books.¿ And when the children returned, the new bookshelves in the classroom were empty. ¿What will we do for story circle?¿ they ask. With the kids sitting around her on the new rug, the teacher tells a story about a boy who loved to fly. Afterwards, she asks them what pictures they imagined. Each one sees something different: wings like yellow sunbeams, a pond that looks like a green button and cloud horses running in the blue sky. Soon, all the children are excitedly raising their hands to ...

¿Verdad que estás deseando crecer y hacerte mayor? Seguro que a menudo sueñas con ser tan alto como papá o mamá y te gusta jugar a ser piloto, médico o trapecista. Pero crecer no siempre es fácil ... A veces las rabietas se transforman en grandes nubes de tormenta, los disgustos, en una carrera de obstáculos, la ropa sale volando y los juguetes se enfadan ... Si algo de esto ocurre, corre a tu habitación, busca a las duendecillas de las cintas de colores, pronuncia las palabras que arrancan sonrisas, abre las cajas que brillan con el sol o ponte las gafas mágicas que vienen del...

From Monday to Saturday, Estefania's finger has many colors. On Sunday, that finger tastes like caramel. She is four years, four months, and four days old. It is time she stops sucking her finger. Isabel and Maria are not far behind. One with her guardian angel and the other with her black cat, they both do things that are no good for their health.

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.