Popular Literature

Сказка учит смелости, доброте и другим хорошим человеческим качествам, но делает это без скучных наставлений, просто показывает, что может произойти, если человек поступает не по совести. Сказка развивает эстетическое чувство.

There's no such thing as ghosts. It's always a trick, a scheme devised by mere mortal men to keep people away from the site of the haunting or other creepy phenomenon.

El presente audiolibro está compuesto de los siguientes cuentos: "El rey del frio", "Basilisa la Hermosa", "El corredor veloz", y "El pez de oro".

"El Sol, la Luna y el Curevo", "El Gato y la Zorra", "El Soldado y la Muerte", "El Zarevich Iván y el Lobo Gris", "La Bruja Baba-yaga", y "La Vaquita Parda".

A fictional account of a future woman president's tenure, this funny satire imagines a president who stops war, gets rid of the IRS, and then gets down to work on handling illiteracy, illegal drug abuse, and other social ills. She has an attitude, and she's determined. Maybe you'll find some ideas that could be put into use today.

Cassie is a popular girl, and she knows it. In fact, when she's asked to define the person who she is for her school yearbook, she ends up choosing that very word. But popularity can be a fickle thing. When Cassie starts to learn this, she realizes everything she had built for herself is about to come crashing down around her.

Cassie's moved on from high school and into everything that comes with college. She's lost interest in the parties and the popularity race that comes with the party scene. In fact, she'd much prefer to spend some quiet time with her new friend Sam rather than party the night away, but when he pushes for some fun and her ex Eric seeks her out, she finds herself being pulled into a world she thought she'd escaped forever.

Messing around with her ex has gotten Cassie into trouble. So why is she still doing it? When Cassie starts to realize what’s really important, she knows she’s already left it for too long. But is that going to stop her from trying?

Fantástica aventura reinventada a partir de la canción popular "¡Estaba el señor Don Gato, sentadito en su tejado maramamiau, miau, miau...!". Nuestro querido y conocido personaje es un gato que vive debajo del coche de la Señora Laura pero su lugar preferido del vecindario de La Fortuna es el tejado de la casa de los niños Dani y Mónica ¡Cómo le gusta su tejado al señor Don Gato! Un día, Don Gato recibe una carta.

"La salchicha que no quería ser asada", "Los piojitos de la princesa", "La grave enfermedad", "El pequeño lischen y la luna", "El gran espanto", "La mirilla" y "Federiquillo el mentiroso".

"El patín de ruedas", "El caballito blanco hühü", "La buena ardilla", "El agujero en la manga", "El bosque de los cuentos", "El anillito del elfo", "El hada de los deseos", y "La niña de la caja de cristal".

A delightful and humorous diary account from Bix, a plain Jane from a struggling family trying to outdo and steal the third-grade classroom stage from Valerie, whose mother is a famous author. Miss Popular may be a wheelchair-user, but she knows how to charm the classroom, and her pink bejeweled wheelchair rules.

Mandy Harper, una de las niñas más repelentes del mundo, era la única que podía poner las normas en el colegio. Ella decidía quién era popular y quién no. Hasta que Kayla Littlebe decidió oponerse a ella. Un día, Mandy descubrió que necesitaba gafas. ¿Podría seguir mandando en la escuela con sus gafas nuevas, o tendría que darse cuenta del error que cometía comportándose como lo hacía?

This is extreme examination of fiction books. We take excerpts from popular novels (one page in length) from various chapters and we read them, trying to understand the writer's voice, writing structure, and more. Over time we'll have a clearer definition of how we do our analysis. This book will have notes every now and then. Enjoy! Oh, and if you were wondering, the main purpose of this is to learn how to write better fiction.

Rondalles contades a la vora del foc és una selecció de 7 de les moltes rondalles de la tradició popular catalana que van ser recollides de la literatura oral pròpia, i de les tradicions d'altres països, per diferents autors i en diferents moments als inicis del segle xx. Els textos seleccionats provenen de diverses publicacions de l'època i s'han actualitzat per tal d'apropar-los al públic infantil del segle XXI , sobretot a nivell de continguts i només en els casos en què l'argument ho requeria.