Resultados para "Families" en Cuentos y leyendas

In the series finale of Maz Evans' best-selling Who Let the Gods Out? series, Elliot faces his darkest period yet. As well as facing up to his fears, he realises that the future of mankind - and the survival of everything he holds dear - is at stake. But can a bunch of misfit gods, a lost constellation and a mortal boy stand up to the daemon hordes?

On the same day Faye’s brother comes home with a black eye, a package arrives from a relative they’ve never met. It’s a slab of clay: some weird kind of bar mitzvah present? The strange gift turns out to be an invitation to learn a craft that’s been in their family for centuries. And it’s not pottery. Faye and Shiloh are driven to New York City by their grandfather for a spring break filled with magical instruction. But at night they find themselves transported to a strange parallel world, where groups of innocent people are facing appalling hatred and violence.

Simone is a mind reader. She knows a great many things, but she can't seem to remember anything about her past. So when she gets the chance to search for her family, she sets off to finally find her home. When she stumbles across a man with two minds inside him - the real one, shoved deep down, and one of a body walker, someone who can take over a person's body against their will - Simone is even more eager to leave her old life behind.

Mette og hendes familie glæder sig til en dejlig ferie i det gamle, lejede sommerhus. Men Mette mærker hurtigt, at der er noget galt med stedet. Mærkelige hændelser i tusmørket og et alt for livagtigt mareridt bringer hende på sporet af en grum hemmelighed. Noget ondt har engang været på færde her - og nu gør det sig klar til at slå til igen. Mette bliver klar over, at de alle sammen er i livsfare. Men hvad kan hun gøre for at afværge truslen? Og kan hun overhovedet få nogen til at tro på sig? Peter Gotthardt (f.

Sune er rejst til Peru med sin mor og far for at hente hans nye lillesøster, Lea. For ligesom Sune er Lea også et adoptivbarn. I Peru besøger Sune og hans familie en gammel Inka-by. Det er spændende, synes Sunes. Da han ser en hvid lama, beslutter han sig for at følge efter den. Men pludselig er mor og far og lillesøster Lea væk. Heldigvis møder Sune lamaens ejer, der er en peruviansk pige. Så går det hele måske alligevel...? "Det er en varm spændende historie, der nok skal fange målgruppen: begynderlæsere i 1.-2. kl.

Erikas mor er helt fortabt i at skrive kærlighedsromaner, og derfor lægger hun slet ikke mærke til, at hendes mand er på vej ud i noget skidt. Han er kunstmaler, og Erika opdager, at han er ved at blive rodet ud i noget kunstsvindel. Heldigvis får hun hjælp af sin ven Jesper - og Frankensteins uhyre - til at fiske far op af suppedasen... Hans-Eric Hellberg (f. 1927) er en svensk forfatter, der har skrevet en lang række børnebøger, hvoraf mange er oversat til dansk.

Historien om "Stammekrigen" følger den 12-årige Elim, der lever sammen med sin familie som en del af den afrikanske Turkanastamme. Bogen beskriver de dramatiske begivenheder, som Elim må gennemgå, da hans mor og søster bliver bortført. Situationen efterlader Elim splittet: på den ene side brænder hævngerrigheden i ham, men på den anden side ulmer foragten for en meningsløs død. Mogens Hoff (1934-2008), dansk maler, grafiker og forfatter. Værnede særligt om naturen og mennesket i sine malerier og lavede både portrætter og landskabsmalerier.

Fati has always been a fast runner, and proves this once again at her school's sports day. When she returns home from school, she helps her mother prepare okro soup. The soup smells delicious and Fati is hungry after running. Find out what happens when Fati helps her mum make the soup. Fati and the Soup Pot is based on the real-life adventures of a girl growing up in northern Ghana.

Emma er på besøg hos morfar. Morfar er god til at fortælle historier, og han fortæller Emma om landet Modsat, hvor dukken Oda er fra.
Så sker der noget mærkeligt. Oda lokker Emma til at komme med til landet Modsat. Det er godt nok skørt...! Emma-bøgerne er en serie om pigen Emma på 7-8 år, som bor i Danmark med sin mor. Emma elsker heste og drømmer ofte om at få sin egen hest. Emma har også en god fantasi og kommer af og til til at fortælle historier, som ikke helt passer. Især om hendes far på Island.

"Pani hed hun, og det betød lillesøster. Hun havde de bruneste øjne og det sorteste hår, man kunne tænke sig, og hun lo mere end hun græd." Pani er en helt almindelig pige fra Grønland. Eller næsten helt almindelig. Det er jo ikke alle piger, heller ikke på Grønland, der får en isbjørneunge i fødselsdagsgave. Pani kalder isbjørnen Nanok, og da den vokser op og bliver meget stor, er det kun Pani, der kan passe den. Der er én anden ting ved Pani, der heller ikke er helt almindelig.

What should a puppet master do when he's old and alone, and all his puppets are gone? Sylvester makes one last puppet. But this one is different. When the old man speaks to him, Puppet speaks back. And then he walks....

Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She's desperate to make it onto her school's cricket team because she'll get to play her favorite sport and use the cricket matches to distract Daddy from dating. But when Coach Broomes announces that girls can't try out for the team, the frustrated Josephine cuts into a powerful silk cotton tree and accidentally summons a bigger problem into her life.

Henry Smith's father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you. But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry's older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin's preparatory school. The tragedy sparks racial tensions in the school.

Everyone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and their hair. They had friends, but they were just distractions. They were waiting for someone different. All I had to do was show them that person was me. Like everyone else in her town, River is obsessed with the Graces, attracted by their glamour and apparent ability to weave magic. But are they really what they seem? And are they more dangerous than they let on?

Five tales which range from the jungles of India to the frozen emptiness of the North... In all of them, Kipling's extraordinary powers of description and ability to identify with human aspiration and animal survival are vividly shown. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi must battle with Nag, the cobra, in his territory; Toomai has a unique glimpse of the elephant world, Kotick, the White Seal, searches for sanctuary, while Kotuko has to find food for his starving Eskimo village. Above all, Kipling's love of life in all its variety shines through.

"For many days we had been tempest-tossed...the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost." So begins this delightful adventure story. The Robinson family, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, will emerge alive from this terrible storm, bringing to land two dogs and a shipload of livestock: hens, pigeons, and geese.

This is a story of the days of chivalry in England and of young Myles Falworth, son of a lord unjustly disgraced for treason, who was forced to make his fortune as best he might in the days when men seemed made of iron. How he entered the service of a powerful lord, rose to knighthood, defeated his father's old enemy in thrilling combat, and at last won the friendship of the king is told against a background of the dangerous times of the 14th century that makes them live again.