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Bluecrest the hen loves pecking and scratching about in the ground for bugs to eat. She also loves pirate stories: she takes them off to her favourite nook to read there. She reads so much that she forgets to lay eggs, thinking she is a ‘Long John Silver Hen’. The other hens in the chicken run watch her with a mixture of disbelief and envy.
In schools today, the short attention span of pupils together with a lack of boundaries make for a lethal combination in any kind of learning environment. What can be done about this?
To date there was no work examining the Camino as a way of ways. La Gran Obra de los Caminos de Santiago. Iter Stellarum is here to fill this void. Under the coordination of Antonio Segundo Vázquez Portomeñe, former head of the Department of Culture and Programmes of the Xacobeo Plan and expert on the Way of St.
In the middle of December 2009 the first murders in Hornachuelos leap from the television and newspaper headlines. Although at first the government creates a smokescreen around the violent attacks verging on cannibalism, the Crisis of the Double Murder explodes all over Andalucia with no one able to provide a swift response.
Ta-raa. We'd like to introduce you to Agus Pianola, a very careless, slightly cheeky boy who is really very nice. He knows he should tidy his bedroom, but he always waits for his mother to remind him to do it because there's never a good moment to begin. And obviously, a lot of things get lost in an untidy room; like balls, video games and homework.
Do winged unicorns exist? Do they write with their own feathers? This story begins in a junk shop and with a special book in which readers can find "The book of nonsense", "Machines and How to make Extraordinary Journeys" or "The Fantastical Guide to Worlds of Drawings", according to their fancy.
A group of young people decide to construct a "dark room": an enclosed space into which light never enters. In the beginning they use it to experiment with new ways of relating to each other, to have anonymous, free sex, and for a mixture of play and transgression.
In tumultuous 19th century Spain, one man, Rosendo Roca, refuses to accept his fate and considers a risky proposal that will end up affecting his whole life. As he struggles to succeed, he will have to contend with the aristocracy and the proletariat, with tradition, war, and disease, and with all the contradictions characteristic of a period in constant turmoil.
Mar and Álex are brothers. And, to their disgust, there is only 364 days between them, which means they have to share more things than they want: school, class, friends, and a birthmark on their left forearms, that they have a pile of stories about. If you came across them, they wouldn't seem anything special at all, but their secret is that they never turn their backs on a good mystery.
A nun disappears, leaving an enigmatic message and an assistant to Pope Francis contracts two Intelligence agents to move heaven and earth until they find her. Meanwhile, a political operative fired by the Casa Rosada (the home and executive office of the Argentine President) is hired by the governor of a region in Patagonia to improve his image and avoid electoral disaster.