Book club discussion kit featuring the title, The vanishing half: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town...

When seventeen-year-old Spark takes a summer job working at a secluded house in England, organizing journals that span centuries and all written in the same hand, she discovers her true connection to the people who live there and the trait that makes them unique.

Eddie Spieglman thought he could be anyone he wanted to be once he got to college -- but most importantly, he thought he wouldn't have to be himself. That was before Eddie's mom sold the house and moved to Thailand. Now Eddie must navigate the college world with a roommate he can't stand; a professor he wants to impress, but who never remembers Eddie's name; a girl intent on ignoring him; and a squirrel who seems to be stalking him around campus....

"It's overwhelming, to say the least, when the two biggest dreams Carson Fields has ever had come true all in the same day: not only does he leave his rural Lake Tahoe home to start school at Oxford University, but then he meets the childhood sweetheart he thought had gotten away. But living so far from home isn't all Carson dreamed it would be. And neither, it turns out, is his dream girl."--Publisher.

Everybody knows that dragons can breathe fire, but unlike her brothers and sisters, this little dragon is different. She doesn't like fire but she desperately wants to fly and make her Dad proud. In an attempt at flying, she finds herself plunging into the lake. Being underwater should be wet, cold and horrid, but it feels AMAZING. Could it be that this little dragon isn't a dragon at all?

Ante el nacimiento de un hijo deforme, el adinerado matrimonio de los Azoitía decide construirle un mundo privado y poblarlo de seres monstruosos para que no se sienta excluido. Mientras tanto, en una caa de reposo para ancianas y niñas huérfanas se espera la llegada de un niño santo, hijo de una asilada. En ambos sitios se confunden los placeres cotidianos y la desesperación, el ciego instinto de la vida con el terror de lo oscuro y lo innombrable. Humberto...

The Addams Family meets Despicable Me in the first book of this new trilogy, perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Pseudonymous Bosch!

Fifteen-year-old Giacomo--servant to Leonardo da Vinci--helps his procrastinating master finish painting "The Last Supper" while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

Grisela se sentía muy triste. Tenía que hacer algo para alegrarse, por eso cogió un bote de pintura ... Grisela the mouse is lonely and tired of being grey, so she changes her appearance to see if that will help.