New Spanish Titles - Year 2016

The novel is set in a community of country houses scattered about the Maestrat in the 1940s and 50s. It it a wooded area frequented by resistance fighters of the Maquis, who, aided by the emotional and material complicity of Teresa, and the reticence of her mother, who's husband was a victim of the civil war.

This picture book tells a Portuguese legend about two giants, the sea and the mountain, who fall in love with a mermaid and challenge each other for her love. The adaptation of the story and the illustrations are by Catarina Sobral, a Portuguese illustrator who won the 2014 International Bologna Children's Book Fair - SM Foundation's International Illustration Prize.

Úrsula is an eleven-year-old girl with a rather complicated life. She has changed schools several times and her mother is on the run after stealing a painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.... No... That's not right. Úrsula is an eleven-year-old girl who goes by the name of Rebecca and hates magicians because one of them made her mother disappear.

I'm not going to explain the plot of this novel. You can find that in many places. I only want to say that it is dedicated to the memory of Cassie, Steven, Corey, Kelly, Matthew, Dan, Daniel, Rachel, Isaiah, John, Lauren, Kyle and William, victims of the horrific events at Columbine. If you don't know what that means, do a search.