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Think there's just one fairy tale with an overworked girl and wicked stepsisters? Think again! Cultures all around the world have their own Cinderella stories. Visit Canada, China, Egypt, and France, and find out whose "glass slippers" are made of red silk, and whose "fairy godmother" is a fish. Fully translated Spanish text.

Reader beware! The biography of R. L. Stine, author of the hugely popular Goosebumps series, is a scary-good time! R. L. Stine began writing stories at the age of nine, after finding a typewriter in his family's attic. (Was it a haunted typewriter? Who can be sure?) Often referred to as the "Stephen King of children's literature," R.L. has created some of the scariest books to have ever been passed around a campfire, leaving readers wide awake at night. With over 400 million copies of his horror fiction novels sold across the world, R.L. Stine is one of the best-selling authors in history.

In June of 1870, Charles Dickens died before finishing his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The ending of that novel would become one of the great literary enigmas of all time. In 2018 the filmmaker Hugo Almagro agrees to write a script about The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

¿Conoces la historia de Malala Yousafzai, la niña pakistaní que, en 2014, se volvió la más joven ganadora de un Premio Nobel por creer que la educación es la herramienta más poderosa para mejorar el mundo? Malala cree que todos los niños —independientemente del sexo, de la raza, del origen social o de la creencia religiosa— tienen el derecho indiscutible a aprender. ¡Y no se resignó cuando en su país se les prohibió a las niñas asistir a la escuela solo por ser muchachas! ¡Porque ir a la escuela era lo más importante para ella, y los libros eran su mayor riqueza! Así, ella ...