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Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.

Kennedy Waters lives in a world where vengeful spirits kill, ghosts keeps secrets, and a devil walks among the people...a devil she unwittingly liberated. Now Kennedy and the other members of the Legion must hunt it down. As she learns more about the Legion and the Illuminati, she begins to understand that her family hides the biggest mystery. With the clock ticking down and the life of someone she loves hanging by a thread, she must ask herself what in her past has left her unmarked.

A little boy named Dula wants to be the fastest runner. He works skinning fish and, each morning, along with the other child laborers, he tries to win and get to his job first. Sometimes he does it, but not always, depending on whether he had anything to eat the night before. This book provides an excellent way to discuss poverty and its consequences in other countries.

Variaciones lógicas de la memoria, de Uriel Cassiani de Palenque, es un libro de cuentos cuyo narrador no se deja vencer por las tramas supuestas o reveladas, ya que realiza un contraste en el que estallan los estereotipos ficcionales. Estos cuentos confrontan ficciones, tramándolas de forma contradictoria o contraponiéndolas por congeladas. En un cuento, un personaje indolente y reparador de electrodomésticos, altera su entorno al dificultar el pronto arreglo del aparato central de la bodega de cuentos de la vida urbana, el televisor, el proveedor casero de ficciones de nuestro tiempo....