BUY What happens when reality overcomes fiction? Then you have a story like ALMA DE LOBO. This novella is the true story of Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja. His is the only documented case in Spain of a feral child. SUMMARY: At the age of seven, Marcos was sold by his father to work as a shepherd in a …
BUY EL PEQUEÑO ÁNGEL DE COLOMBIA is the extraordinary true story of Albeiro Vargas, a Colombian boy famous for his magnificent humanitarian work. SUMMARY: Albeiro is only six when he starts playing and taking care of his ill grandfather. After his death, Albeiro befriends some elderly neighbors in Ciudad Norte, an impoverished area of Bucaramanga, Colombia, where he lives. …
BUY SOÑADORES gives a face to the millions of children that live as undocumented immigrants and brings to light the challenges they face to live a normal life in the United States. This story is ideal for Spanish Level 3 Learners. The story is written in conversational Spanish, using simple grammatical structures in various forms of …
BUY SUMMARY After experiencing the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Aleja, a Mexican-American teen, plans to throw a big Día de los Muertos party at her home in California. The tricky thing is that her best friend plans to throw a big Halloween party on the same day. Aleja narrates this light-hearted story mostly in the present tense and …
BUY This compelling novella, told from a dog’s point of view, is based on the true events that turned Arthur, an Ecuadorian stray dog, into a global celebrity. SUMMARY Arthur’s journey began when he attached himself to the captain of an extreme sports team who was competing in the 2014 Adventure Racing World Championship. It …
BUY Olivia y los monos is an easy low-level Spanish novella for true beginners. It is almost entirely in the present tense with a smattering of past tense and no subjunctive. With about 285 unique words (not including obvious cognates) and plenty of repetition, it tells a 2,700-word story. A full glossary for each of the seven …
BUY A novella for 3rd-year high school Spanish students. SUMMARY Daniel, a 16-year-old American boy wants to enter a photography contest. He goes to Ecuador to visit his Ecuadorian-American relatives. While there, he must deal with various culturally challenging situations. On a day trip he meets Carmen, a girl with exceptional eyes. He wants to photograph …
BUY Historias con sabor a sueño (Dream-Flavored Stories) is the name of Verónica’s first book, published by Letramía in Quito, Ecuador in 2001. This book is a compilation of five fantasy stories. Each one is like a metaphor of some of the author’s life experiences and the teachings they left her. The result are stories similar …