História e Cultura

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in...

Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face....

From #1 New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Brian Selznick, a profoundly romantic YA novel about two boys finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome.

This audiobook brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in stories for young people....

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (Vermont) This contemporary classic explores the role of boys who fought in the Civil War. No reader’s vision of America’s most brutal and bloody war will be the same after reading this book. “This wrenching look at our nation’s...

El Arte de la Guerra es un manual de enseñanzas para salir exitoso de cualquier batalla que se presente en la vida....

The second novel in the And I Darken series that reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones . . . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire--"absolutely devastating in the best way" (Kirkus, starred review) by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White. “A+, 5 knives.”—Amie Kaufman, New York...

Three college, star football players and friends. One dream. Upon graduating from the University of Alabama, they vow that whoever gets the first head coach job will bring the other two along with them.

Es una pena ver a una nación tan brillante de personas asesinadas por nuestros antepasados sobre la codicia, el odio y la intolerancia por la sabiduría y la manera de como vivían los nativos americanos....

On November 10, 1975, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a giant freighter, sank with its entire crew of 29 aboard, in one of the most violent storms ever witnessed on Lake Superior....

Lemuel Gulliver has bad luck at sea. A series of shipwrecks lands him in some unimaginable places....

Просто и доступно о самых важных исторических событиях! "История России...

Slava, a 14-year-old teen, comes to Canada with her parents and sister and a suitcase filled with memories of a lost childhood, memories that now haunt her new life....

The Reformation was an era with many examples of remarkable faithfulness, courage, and learning....

When Poland is invaded in WWII, the Gold family sticks together in horrific conditions to survive....

On the run from her own dark secrets, a teen girl becomes the nanny for a prestigious family on their Jamaican estate, where she quickly discovers even paradise may be haunted. Carina Marshall is looking to reinvent herself, and what better place to do it than Jamaica, her mother’s alluring...

Rome, une ville éternelle, une société ingénieuse formée d'ethnies disparates sous la protection des dieux...

A sweeping adventure, set in the late 19th century, about science, love, and finding your place in the world, perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Julie Berry. Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but she knows such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she...

Caden senses the underwater animatronics in Freddy's Fantasy Water Park have a mind of their own. Robbie knows deep down that the minds of the members of the Fazbear Fan Club have been taken over by something.

Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey—living in grandparents’ homes during the times her mother, struggling with mental illness, needed support to raise her and her brothers. Together the family found a way to keep going even in the...