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"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
2) Inkling
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"When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling"--OCLC.
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Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
6) Timid
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Cecil Hall and his family have just moved from Florida to Massachusetts, near Boston. Cecil is anxious about making friends because he doesn't know where he'll fit in. His older sister, Leah, thinks he should befriend the other Black kids at his new school, but Cecil isn't sure how he'd go about doing that. He wants to be known for his comics-making talent, anyway. But the few kids who are impressed by Cecil's art aren't always nice to him. When one...
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"Eleven-year-old Carolina's summer -- and life as she knows it -- is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter's house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows camp, where her bossy older cousin Gabriela rules the social scene. Just as Carolina worries she'll have to spend the entire summer in Gabriela's shadow, she makes a friend of her own in Jennifer,...
10) Mister Orange
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When Linus Muller takes over making deliveries for his family's Manhattan grocery store in 1943, including bringing a crate of oranges every other week to an artist from Europe, the two become friends as they discuss war, the future, freedom, and imagination.
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Querida Senorita Sabelotodo, Mi peor enemiga esta propagando chismes sobre mi... Socorro! Oh, no! El nombre de tu peor enemiga empieza por --Mac y termina en --Kenzie Entonces eres TU la que ME tiene que aconsejar! Tu amiga, SENORITA SABELOTODO (Tambien conocida como Nikki Maxwell, experta en ligues y otros asuntos de vital importancia para mis mejores amigas).
12) New kid
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Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
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Aqui esta tu entrada para ver a Nikki en directo. No te pierdas el tercer volumen de la serie --Diario de Nikki», el diario en el que Nikki le da vueltas a todo... El camino de Nikki hacia el estrellato: - Enfrentamiento con la diva de turno. - Bronca con sus mejores amigas. - Y... un grupo de apoyo para ayudar a la futura estrella. Justo cuando Nikki estaba empezando a acostumbrarse a la vida en su nuevo cole, la competicion de talento podria cambiarlo...
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Nikki Maxwell no se sorprende cuando descubre que el chico de sus suenos, Brandon, trabaja como voluntario en un refugio para animales del vecindario. El es un chico tan dulce, que por supuesto, no duda en ayudar a esos perritos adorables! Cuando Brandon le comenta que el refugio esta en peligro y que pueden cerrarlo, Nikki va a hacer todo lo posible para que eso no suceda. Asi que, junto a sus amigas, Chloe y Zoey, se apuntaran a la competicion de...
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Cuando el padre de Nikki es contratado para encargarse de la desinfeccion de un instituto de alto standing, no solo consigue un trabajo para todo el ano, sino que a su vez consigue una beca para su hija. Y es ahidonde empieza el sinvivir de Nikki, que se encuentra perdida de repente entre un mundo desconocido para ella: el del pijerio. Enseguida conocera a Mackenzie, una chica que siempre va a la ultima y que lidera el grupo GPS (Guapas, Populares...
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Ya instalada en su nueva escuela, la vida parece sonreirle a Nikki Maxwell, especialmente desde que su flechazo, Brandon, le pidio ser su companero de laboratorio. No obstante, cuando Nikki oye a Mackenzie alardear de que Brandon la lleva a un baile de Halloween, se compromete a pasar esa noche en una fiesta infantil junto a su hermana pequena Brianna. Despues de descubrir que Mackenzie mentia y que su sueno de ir a la fiesta con Brandon podria hacerse...
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Is this what a crush felt like? A constant stomachache, a bubbly feeling in your fingertips? When a tornado rips through town, twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed and her family of six is displaced. Ivy feels invisible and ignored in the aftermath of the storm - and what's worse, her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing. Mysteriously, Ivy's drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from...
18) Squint
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Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.