Lynne Reid Banks

Al començament, alguns dels regals d'aniversari que rep Omri no semblen gaire interessants: una petita figura de plastic en forma d'indi i un simple armari. Aleshores Omri aconsegueix una antiga clau que encaixa en el pany de l'armari. Que hi pot guardar? De moment, l'indi. Uns sorolls estranys el desperten al mati; obre l'armari i... es troba amb un guerrer indi de set centimetres d'alçada...

Los jóvenes lectores están de enhorabuena: en un único volumen podrán encontrar las magníficos aventuras que tienen su inicio en LA LLAVE MÁGICA y que harán que no puedan dejar de leerlo:Al principio, algunos de los regalos de cumpleaños que recibe Omri no parecen demasiado interesantes: una figurita pequeña de plastico en forma de indio y un simple armario. Entonces Omri consigue un antigua llave que encaja en la cerradura del armario. ¿Que puede guardar?. De momento, el indio. Unos extraños ruidos lo despiertan por la mañana; abre el armario y... se encuentra con un guerrero indio de siete centimetros de altura...EL REGRESO DEL INDIOHa pasado un año desde que Omri dijera adios a Toro Pequeño, el juguete piel roja que cobro vida gracias al armario magico. Sin embargo, Omri nunca pudo olvidarle y finalmente sucumbre a la tentacion de verle otra vez. Pero cuando se abre la puerta del armario, Toro Pequeño esta desplomado, inconsciente, con dos balas en la espalda. Omri intenta ayudarle, enfrentandose a la terrible responsabilidad del poder, el poder sobre la vida y la muerte...EL SECRETO DEL INDIODespues de una terrible batalla, muchos de los guerreros de Toro Pequeño estan heridos. Omri debe curarlos, pero tambien proteger el secreto del indio. ¿Quien puede creer que un indio y un vaquero de plastico puedan cobrar vida? Cuando Patrick, el amigo de Omri, viaja en el tiempo al lejano oeste, las cosas comienzan a complicarse...

Ni l'Ormi ni l'indi no es van bellugar durant un minut i mig, si fa no fa. Ni tan sols respiraven. Nomes es miraven l'un a l'altre de fit a fit. Els ulls de l'indi eren negres i ferotges i s'hi veia la por que sentia. El llavi inferior deixava entreveure unes dents brillants i molt blanques, tan petites que nomes es podien veure si s'hi reflectia la llum. Estava dret amb l'esquena enganxada a la paret del fons de l'armari, el ganivet a la ma, amb el cos rigid per la por, pero amb una mirada desafiant.

The fifth title in this gripping series about Omri and his plastic North American Indian Little Bull who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboard Omri and his father travel back in time to find Little Bull and his people in deep trouble, torn between staying in the West and facing extinction or starting a long trek to a new life in Canada. Omris final parting with Little Bull is incredibly moving yet the book is also very funny. We meet other favourite characters as well as some new ones and there are wonderful descriptive passages about Little Bulls longhouse and the Iroquois lifestyle. Even though this seems like the end of the story, Lynne does have ideas for a sequel.

Al principio, algunos de los regalos de cumpleaños que recibe Omri no parecen demasiado interesantes: una figurita pequeña de plástico en forma de indio y un simple armario. Entonces Omri consigue un antigua llave que encaja en la cerradura del armario. ¿Que puede guardar?. De momento, el indio. Unos extraños ruidos lo despiertan por la mañana; abre el armario y... se encuentra con un guerrero indio de siete centimetros de altura...

En esta continuación de la LLave Mágica, ha pasado un año desde que Omri dijera adiós a Toro Pequeño, el juguete piel roja que cobró vida gracias al armario mágico. Sin embargo, Omri nunca pudo olvidarle y finalmente sucumbre a la tentacion de verle otra vez. Pero cuando se abre la puerta del armario, Toro Pequeño esta desplomado, inconsciente, con dos balas en la espalda. Omri intenta ayudarle, enfrentandose a la terrible responsabilidad del poder, el poder sobre la vida y la muerte...

Twins are meant to be alike‚ but Angela and Diabola are opposites in every way. Angela is completely good: Diabola is pure evil. Everyone loves Angela: Even the vicar is terrified of Diabola! As Diabola′s powers grow‚ it seems that no one can stop her. Only Angela seems to know what goes on in her twin′s mind. A wickedly black comedy from a master storyteller.

The Indian in the Cupboard is the first of five gripping books about Omri and his plastic North American Indian -- Little Bull -- who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboard For Omri, it is a dream come true when the plastic American Indian he locks into the old cupboard comes to life. Little Bull is everything an Indian brave should be -- proud, fearless and defiant. But being in charge of a real, live, human being is a heavy responsibility, as Omri soon discovers. And when his best friend, Patrick, is let in on the secret, he soon realises that life-changing decisions lie ahead.

Omri has never forgotten Little Bull though, and finally yields to the temptation to see his tiny blood brother again. But when the cupboard door opens, Little Bull is slumped, unconscious, over his horse, two bullet wounds in his back. As Omri tries to help him, he faces the terrifying responsibility of power, the power of life and death...

Al començament, alguns dels regals d|aniversari que rep Omri no semblen gaire interessants: una petita figura de plastic en forma d|indi i un simple armari. Aleshores Omri aconsegueix una antica clau que encaixa en el pany de l|armari. Què hi pot guarda? De moment, l|indi. Uns sorolls estranys el desperten al matá; obre l|armari i... es troba amb un guerrer indi de set centímetres d|altura...

Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for a school assignment, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother and the rest of her sometimes confusing life. Alice doesnt see how she can write her life story as a class assignment.. How can she fit nine years into a couple of pages? Her pets have died and the only family she has is her mother. Until recently she had a beloved interfering grandmother Gene but shes gone from Alices life. Besides, Alice discovered ages ago she was born by accident, and thats the sort of private thing you dont write about for school. Alice does the assignment but she thinks its boring, until she discovers a need to write about her true life the exciting, complicated and private of her life. She writes how Gene came along, how she changed Alices life, making it richer in experience but also more complicated. She records ongoing quarrels between Gene and her mother which ended with the Big Row and now she cant see Gene any more. Lynne Reid Banks has written a truly compelling story of a creative child caught in the middle of a difficult but very real and increasingly common situation.

A compelling and touching coming-of-age story set in the magnificent Australian outback. All my helpless, angry thoughts suddenly came together to form one word.One answer.Australia.On the other side of the world.An escape from everything Staceys lifes not great. Her dads run off, she and her mum live alone in a poky flat, schools one big bore and her friends are all bad news. Then, out of the blue, a glamorous gran shes never met comes to visit all the way from Australia. When Stacey gets the worst news yet, Grandma Glendine has the perfect solution Suddenly, Staceys life in grey old London is swapped for the heat, dust, flies, and even scorpions and snakes, of the outback. Will all this (plus yuck! an outside toilet) prove too much for Stacey the city-girl? And is her flashy, rich gran quite who she seems? An accessible, beautifully researched novel, written by an author who always tells a cracking good story.

Its been over a year since Omri discovered in The Indian in the Cupboard that, with the turn of a key, he could magically bring to life the three-inch-high Indian figure he placed inside his cupboard. Omri and his Indian, Little Bear, create a fantastic world together until one day, Omri realizes the terrible consequences if Little Bear ever got trapped in his "giant" world. Reluctantly, Omri sends the Indian back through the cupboard, giving his mother the magic key to wear around her neck so that he will never be tempted to bring Little Bear back to life.But one year later, full of exciting news, Omri gives way to temptation when he finds that his mother has left the magic key lying on the bathroom sink.A whole new series of adventures awaits Omri as he discovers that his Indian has been critically wounded during the French and Indian Wars and desperately needs Omris help.Now, helplessly caught between his own life and his cupboard life of war and death, Omri must act decisively if he is to save Little Bear and his village from being completely destroyed. What began as a harmless game has tumed into a horrible nightmare, a nightmare in which Omri is irrevocably involved, and from which he may never escape.

From Dakins bedroom window, the farthest-away mountain looks quite close, its peak capped with pink and purple and green snow rising above the pine wood just beyond the village. No one knows why the snow isnt white, because no one has ever been there; for though the mountain looks close, however far you travel it never gets any closer. Until one morning, Dakin is woken by a voice calling, summoning her through the wicked wood and over the sea of spikes, to fight the evil on the mountain and set it free

Dos cadells de tigre germans són arrencats de la jungla i portats a Roma. El més fort, Brutus, viu en una gàbia i l'entrenen per matar al Colosseu. El petit, el Cèsar el regala a la seva filla Aurèli

Harry the Poisonous Centipede is now quite brave, but nothing can prepare him for this next adventure! He and best friend George are lost in a new and even scarier no-top world. Far from home, across the no-end puddle, they must negotiate a strange treeless cold desert, a Nest of Hoo-Mins, lots of noise-hurt and terrifying hairy-yowlers! Harry woke up first. The straight-up-hard thing was jiggling. It was moving.Whats happening? asked George in alarm.I dont know. Were moving. Harry replied.Where are we? Were not where we were last night! crackled George.I told you! This is a cant -get-out! Harry and George face the toughest adventure yet when they are shipped West in a crate of bananas. Far across the no-end puddle, miles away from home, they must find a way to survive the bitter cold and hide from the hundreds of Hoo-Mins do-diddling around them. They run away as fast as they can, but inadvertently squirm into a Hoo-Min Nest and come face to face with a hairy-yowler! All Harry wants is to go home to his mother, and tell her how much he warm-hearts her before her time comes to stop. But before they can even start the perilous journey home, they must escape the Nest and go out into the no-top world. Yet this particular Hoo-Min is fascinated by insects, and wants nothing more than to add some poisonous centipedes to his collection

The Fairy Queen strictly forbids fairies from using their magic power on humans. But after Tiki accidentally meets Jan, a woman who is desperate for a baby daughter, she finds it impossible to resist fulfilling her wish. Now up against the dark and vicious power of evil, this fairy rebel must face the Queens fury with frightening and possibly fatal results.

The Indian in the Cupboard is the first of five gripping books about Omri and his plastic North American Indian Little Bull who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboardFor Omri, it is a dream come true when the plastic American Indian he locks into the old cupboard comes to life. Little Bull is everything an Indian brave should be proud, fearless and defiant.But being in charge of a real, live, human being is a heavy responsibility, as Omri soon discovers. And when his best friend, Patrick, is let in on the secret, he soon realises that life-changing decisions lie ahead.

A medieval tragedy and tale of retribution The Dungeon is a powerful story from a writer of great skill and potency. The setting is medieval Scotland, a land dominated by skirmishes and battles on the borders, a land of fortresses and castles in Scotland, England and Wales. We meet Bruce McLennan, a Scottish laird, a man sorely-changed by a terrible family tragedy. He is a domineering master, an uncaring landlord, a cruel man, who has his heart set on building himself a castle and a Dungeon in which to punish his enemies in the future. But while the dungeon is being built, McLennan plans a trip to the far ends of the earth. As we follow McLennan on his travels to China and beyond, we witness his buying of Peony, or Mudan, as her Chinese name is, a young girl who McLennan uses as a slave. He is uncaring, unsympathetic, as he drags her after him across the world. Gradually, knowing no other, Peony develops a kind of affection for her master. In Scotland, Peony meets Fin, a stable lad and a loving friendship develops between them. McLennan, busy fighting off enemies, uses Peony in an horrific scene in one of his battles; he looses badly and subsequently blames her. He decides to punish her by throwing her in his dungeon then unfolds a ghastly scene where Peony kills herself, at last in control of her own destiny. McLennan dies of guilt, shame and remorse. Fin lives on, and even Peony, perhaps, in his new baby sister.