Kiran Millwood Hargrave

When the Philippine government takes over Culion, an island for people with leprosy, Ami is put in an orphanage on another island, where she finds a friend willing to help her return before her mother dies.

Una novela de aventuras, valentía y amistad. Amihan y su madre viven juntas en Culión, una isla donde algunos de sus habitantes, incluida su madre, tienen la lepra. Ami adora su hogar, con sus mares infinitos y sus bosques llenos de pájaros. Pero la llegada del cruel representante del gobierno, el señor Zamora, cambia su mundo para siempre. Una nueva ley obliga a los habitantes que no están enfermos a abandonar la isla, que se convertirá en...

Un hermoso canto al poder de las mujeres, basado en hechos reales. Nochebuena de 1617. Una tempestad se desata sobre la isla noruega de Vardø cuando los hombres de una pequeña aldea están en el mar pescando. Todos mueren. A partir de ese instante, Vardø se convierte en una isla de mujeres, entre ellas, Maren, que debe hacer frente a la muerte de su padre, su hermano y su prometido. Las mujeres de la isla tratan de hacer todo lo posible por salir...

Straßburg, im glühend heißen Sommer 1518: Mitten in der Stadt beginnt eine Frau zu tanzen. Tagelang, ohne Unterbrechung. Hunderte folgen ihrem Beispiel und die Obrigkeit ruft verzweifelt den Notstand aus. Außerhalb der Stadtgrenze spürt die schwangere Lisbet noch nichts von dem Aufruhr. Doch als ihre Schwägerin Nethe aus der Verbannung auf den Hof zurückkehrt, beginnt auch unter Lisbets Füßen der Boden zu beben. Was verbirgt Nethe? Welche...

My name is Julia. This is the story of the summer I almost lost my mum, and found a shark older than trees. Don't worry though, that doesn't spoil the ending.

Mila lives with her sisters, Pipa and Sanna, her brother Oskar, and their sled dogs in the forest where winter has held sway for five years, ever since their father disappeared; but now a strange scary man, flanked by twelve young boys, seems to have bewitched Oskar and taken him away--and Mila, convinced her brother is in danger, leads her sisters in a desperate journey across the frozen wild-lands to find their brother, and perhaps a way past an...

While on a journey across the sea to track the migration of an arctic fox, twelve-year-old Leila rediscovers herself and the mother she thought she had lost.

"When a series of mysterious deaths shakes her island community, thirteen-year-old Isabella, daughter to the island's only mapmaker, volunteers to lead a party of explorers into the forest in search of answers. As the group ventures deeper and deeper into the island, dark secrets begin to surface, and the legends Isabella has listened to all these years show signs of coming to life"--

Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition of supernatural horror, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather together by the flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a spooky tale. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors--all of them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre--bring the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of original spine-tingling...