Sharon M Draper
1) Fuera de mi
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V&R Editoras
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2014
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Fuera de mí cuenta con más de 33.000 ratings en Goodreads, la plataforma de lectores más grande a nivel mundial, y tiene más de 15 ediciones. Desde 2010, fecha de su publicación en los Estados Unidos, se mantiene en la listas de best-sellers de todo el mundo. Melody es la más inteligente de toda la escuela...
pero nadie lo sabe. Su memoria y capacidad son increíbles.
La mayoría de la gente –maestros y médicos incluidos–
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1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella lives in the segregated South. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can’t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn’t bothered them for years. But one late night, Stella and her little brother see something they’re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by...
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Eleven-year-old Melody, a brilliant fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording, and has no delete option. She's the smartest kid in the entire school, but no one knows it -- her parents and teachers have always believed that she can't learn, because she can't talk. Then Melody discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time, but not everyone...
4) Blended
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Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week. Because of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. And now that her parents are divorced, it seems their fights are even worse, and they're always about her. And she is beginning to realize that being split between Mom and Dad involves more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: it's also about switching identities. Her...
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Melody is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing's out of her reach, not even summer camp. There have to be camps for differently-abled kids like her, and she's going to sleuth one out. A place where she can trek through a forest, fly on a zip line, and even ride on a horse! A place where maybe she really can finally make a real friend, make her own decisions, and even do things on her own--the dream! By the...
