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Will se encuentra en medio de una guerra: el lugar, su propia casa; el enemigo, su hermana Estelle. Hace falta mucha paciencia y un gran sentido del humor para aguantar el ambiente familiar que ella provoca. Afortunadamente, Will va a encontrar una solución. La autora de Señora Doubtfair (que se convirtió en película con Robin Williams como protagonista) y de Billy y el vestido rosa, dibuja en este libro un acertado retrato de esos adolescentes especialmente difíciles. Guerra en casa es una divertida novela para entender por qué un hogar se convierte en un campo de batalla.

Kitty Killin is not only a good story-teller, but also the World's Great Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends. Particularly when there's a danger they might turn

Cuando Rasputín se entera de que la familia se marcha de viaje, se siente el gato más feliz del mundo. Pero las cosas no son tan sencillas.

Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a fault, with his miserable little children and his manipulative ex-wife. Tilly's own expertise in the arts of deception and avoidance should be enough to make sure she's always one step ahead of Geoffrey's crumbling family. Time and again she finds herself staying with him, although she knows the relationship to be doomed. How can Tilly plan her permanent escape?

What's the hook? A jaw-dropping novel by popular children's novelist Anne Fine. What are the themes? Family and friendship raise PSHE issues such as reasons and the effects of bullying and peer pressure. Teaching points? Many excellent passages which are good models for pupils' writing.

Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard have been torn between their warring parents ever since the divorce. All that changes when their mother takes on a most unusual cleaning lady. But, as the Hilliard children soon discover, there's more to Madame Doubtfire than meets the eye.

Para Ivan, Sophie, Tania y Nicholas la abuelita es una anciana un poco chiflada a veces exigente, a veces insoportable y normalmente fastidiosa pero al mismo tiempo forma parte de sus vidas, como la vieja casa en la que viven, su estrepitosa lavadora o los deberes del colegio. ¿Cómo es posible que Natasha, su excéntrica madre rusa, y Henry, su padre, pretendan llevarla a una residencia de ancianos? La idea de que la abuelita pueda irse de casa los deja tan atónitos que idean una táctica para presionar a sus padres y conseguir que cambien de opinión.

How stupid do you have to be to fall out of a top-floor window? Or was Stolly trying something else - up on cloud nine even then? Stolly's always been so alive, so inspiring, taking risks, hiding nothing, notorious for being the school's most imaginative liar (or fantasist, as he calls it). But now, he's lying in a hospital bed

La Mel és una auteèntica rata de biblioteca. Sestima més estar sola, atrinxerada rere un llibre, que no pas relacionarse. Troba que la gent i tot el que lenvolta és molt avorrit. Però quna arriba la Imogen, ina nova companya de classe, descobreix, horroritzada, qie les històries de por que tant li agrada llegir shan fet realitat. I encara pitjor: que ella és lúnica que pot fer alguna cosa per aturarles.

Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Nora, shops for her, cooks for her, and listens to her grumbles. He also keeps in touch with his sister Dilys, long estranged from her mother, in a vain attempt to maintain family ties. But neither Dilys, Norah nor Colin's colleagues know about his other - much more secret - life that involves a garden shed, a circus acrobat, a much adored three-year-old charmer, and a certain Mr Haksar's increasingly disquieting penchant for squabbling with his neighbours. What Colin doesn't know is that, thanks to a house insurance policy incorrectly filled in by his mother, his two lives are set to collide, and there is nothing he can do to stop them. With her customary wit and perception, subtle yet razor sharp in her powers of observation, Anne Fine has produced another tour de force. Her portrait of the complex dynamics of family relationships is as lucid as it is uncomfortable, ending with a climax that in its wry irony and sheer unexpectedness is truly shocking.

The Palmer sisters are close. They see each other often, they care for one another's children and houses and pets. They lend each other books, spare heaters and clothes for special occasions. Their phones ring in a ceaseless chat about in-laws and job plans and anxieties and triumphs. They never keep any secrets from each other - until now. Stella tells Bridie a rumour she's heard about Liddy's new boyfriend. Bridie is shocked, and discusses it with Heather. But should they tell Liddy, and risk ruining her new-found happiness? Bridie persuades her sisters that they should, but when Liddy reacts badly, the other two backslide and Bridie becomes the outcast, bereft of the sisterly support system on which she has based her whole life.

Faltan once días para o grande experimento dos nenos de fariña. Os rapaces están listos para guindar á canle a patadas aos seus nenos de tres quilos de fariña, pero Simón non. O moneco de Simón está axudandolle a entende-la sua propia vida: porque o abandonou o seu pai e o forte que foi a sua nai por telo criado soa.