LECTURA DE VERANO

EL DESTINO DE LOS MEDIORREINOS ESTÁ EN SUS MANOS. Contra todo pronóstico, Althea Zoltaire ha superado su iniciación, pero los mediorreinos se enfrentan a un mal que amenaza con devorarlos y ella aún debe prepararse para convertirse en una auténtica guerrera. A su lado, Wilder Hawthorne, la Mano de la Muerte y el espadachín más temido de Thezmarr, no parará hasta prepararla para la batalla, aunque eso quiebre su espíritu. Convertido en su mentor, Wilder puede sentir la tormenta crecer dentro de ella, y su propia magia responde a ese llamado. La siente en la sangre, grabada en los huesos, y le consume como un fuego salvaje. Pero ese mismo deseo amenaza con destruirles. Y mientras ambos se embarcan en una lucha mortal para evitar que el mundo caiga en la oscuridad, también lo hacen para salvarse el uno al otro.

Un año ha pasado y Althea Zoltaire vive tras un objetivo: encontrar a Wilder Hawthorne y hacer justicia. Dividida entre el hombre al que amó y la traición que jamás imaginó, Althea está decidida a perseguirle hasta los confines de la tierra si es necesario. Sin embargo, con la oscuridad ganando terreno y su poder cada vez más débil, la joven guerrera descubrirá que su lucha es mucho más grande que un solo enemigo. Junto a sus compañeros, deberá enfrentarse a revelaciones que harán tambalearse los cimientos de los mediorreinos en una travesía llena de peligros donde los límites entre aliados y enemigos se desdibujan. Pero no solo está en juego el destino del mundo… también su corazón. Y, cuando su camino vuelva a llevarla hasta Wilder, Thea tendrá que decidir a quién guarda lealtad y quién luchará a su lado contra el mal que se avecina.

Hace décadas, la sed de sangre asoló el reino de Parkisan. Ahora, humanos y vampiros conviven en supuesta armonía, aunque son muchos los que, como Savannah Montgomery, se ven obligados a visitar las sangrerías a cambio de unas pocas monedas para poder sobrevivir. Pero Savannah tiene un plan y espera su momento para actuar. Los vampiros le arrebataron a su padre y a su primer amor, Morgana, y no dejará que sus muertes sean en vano. Pronto tendrá lugar el Sacrificio de la Corona, una competición mortal para formar parte de la corte de la reina vampira Lilith II, y será ahí donde se cobre su venganza. Mientras lucha por llegar a la prueba final e infiltrarse en el castillo, su objetivo será unirse a la Alianza de la Sangre Roja, una organización secreta que busca acabar con el reinado de terror de la Reina Colmillos. Y no descansará hasta verlo reducido a cenizas.

Table Titans Club members Val, Kate, Alan, Andrew, and Darius are psyched to spend the summer at Camp Owl Care. At this live-action roleplay paradise, the gang will work together to overcome challenges, unravel riddles, and safely swash-buckle their foes. Nothing the Table Titans can’t handle together! . . . Or not? The club arrives and learns that they’ve been randomly sorted into houses for the camp LARP quest. They must compete against their fellow Titans for reward and renown! As the camp-wide feud heats up, it seems like the Titans will have to make a choice: sacrifice their houses’ standings, or say goodbye to their tight-knit friendship. Will the Table Titans Club survive the summer?

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In There Is a Bird On My Head!, Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head—two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend?

Hero Crowe’s Adventure School is the stuff of legends. Every year, aspiring heroes across the Overworld wait to see where the mysterious school will pop up this time. But before students can even make it to the front steps, they must pass a dangerous admissions test. Belinda knows she can pass. She has to pass. She needs to prove to everyone (most of all herself) that she’s not a coward, and she is certain that winning the school’s glorious chest of rare, valuable items is the way to do it. She just needs to make sure she wins without revealing too much about her past. Belinda has competition, though. She and countless other students are up against hair-raising mobs, secret rooms, and saboteurs, facing challenge after challenge as they battle their way through Hero Crowe’s unusual “lessons.” While some students think working together is the best strategy, others prefer the whole lone wolf thing. After all, Hero said there could be only one victor. Navigating new friendships, rivalries, and plenty of danger, Belinda discovers just what it takes to be a hero. But in the end, will she win the prize and become the school’s one true hero?

Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o’-the-wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world. And into this world – through the pages of an old book – ventures Bastian, a lonely boy of ten or twelve. But Fantastica is slowly decaying, its Childlike Empress dying. Only a real human being can set things right by giving the Empress a new name. Bastian takes up the challenge, and finds himself crossing the Swamps of Sadness and the Silver Mountains, meeting sorcerers and giants, bats and night-hobs, gnomes and racing snails, as he journeys bravely toward the Ivory Tower, Bastian’s quest is filled with all the wonders of myth and fairy tale. It is a fantasy adventure that will capture your heart – and recapture the magical dreams of childhood.

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In I Am Invited to a Party! Piggie is invited to her first party. She doesn’t know what to wear, though, so she asks her best friend Elephant for help. Elephant’s advice is odd to say the least, so Piggie will try on all sorts of zany outfits before finally arriving at the party for a hilarious surprise.

Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind. . . .