Intermediate

Maria is an 11-year-old girl who was born in the USA but comes from a family of Mexican immigrants. She writes her autobiography to comply with a school assignment. Read Maria’s vibrant and warm story that promotes cultural and racial pride, self-acceptance, racial and gender equality, multiculturalism, self-understanding, and family ties.

In Uruguay, several characters show a unique way to deal with reality. Then a surprise brings them all an unexpected truth.

Level 4 • Up to 1,500 words

Isolated in their old family mansion, two characters refuse to accept the fact that times have changed.

Level 5 • Up to 2000 words

A poor boy from Sevilla has become a famous bullfighter. Now Gallardo has everything, money, land, and women. But how long will his good fortune last?

Level 4 • Up to 1,500 words

Sometimes Lincoln feels like a little brown boy in a white gi while he lives in Japan for the summer. He's there to practice a form of martial arts called kempo. With the help of his Japanese “brother”, Mitsuo, Lincoln sees that people all across the globe share the same passions.Whether friend or kempo opponent, many people share his love for baseball, family traditions, and new friendships.

Who is the most skilled swordsman and ladiesman, Don Luis de Mejía or Don Juan Tenorio? They have made a bet to find out. Now all Sevilla awaits the arrival of these two men who fear neither the laws of men nor those of God.

Level 3 • Up to 1000 words

What drove Columbus to challenge all the mapmakers of his day and sail west to look for a new passage? It all began one night on a Portuguese beach.

Level 3 • Up to 1000 words

Somewhere up in the mountains, the devil's sleep is having horrible dreams. He anxiously awaits the hand that will set him free.

Level 3 • Up to 1000 words

Marianela is a young woman who has been mistreated by life, but she is happy to help her blind friend Pablo. Now, Dr. Golfin thinks he can restore Pablo’s vision. Will Pablo continue to love Marianela once he no longer needs her help?

Level 3 • Up to 1000 words

After her moving testimonial, Abrazar el éxito, the prominent lecturer brings us the extraordinary story of a handicapped boy who leads a group of warriors and saves the community. Together they must defeat the evil forces of envy, resentment, and selfishness using courage and values as their only weapons. Their tenacity, perseverance, and willpower show us that if you set your mind to it, you can accomplish anything in life.

The objectives of this edition of Quixote are to serve as an initiation to those who approach this monumental novel for the first time and to help high school and college students understand Quixote better through footnotes, an analysis on the work, a section on Cervantes and his time, opinions about Quixote, a chronological picture, and a well maintained bibliography.

The objectives of this edition of Quijote are to serve as an initiation to those who approach this monumental novel for the first time and to help high school and college students understand Quixote better through footnotes, an analysis on the work, a section on Cervantes and his time, opinions about Quixote, a chronological picture, and a well maintained bibliography.

It is Friday night, and a group of carefree young friends have planned an evening of fun. They are unaware that a horrifying fire will change their lives forever.

Level 3 • Up to 1000 words

Los santos inocentes Enslaved by their master, Paco and his family work from sunrise to sundown. Azarías is his naive and solitary brother-in-law, whose only concern is taking care of his bird, a goshawk.

Level 5 • Up to 2000 words

In fifteenth-century Spain, Celestina manipulates the love lives of the rich and poor, but always to her own advantage.

Level 6 • Up to 2,500 words

A personal friend of the President is assassinated. Who will pay for this crime? It hardly seems to matter in this Latin American republic.

Level 6 • Up to 2,500 words

Miguel and Don Santiago take the reader on a trip to the Yucatan, where the Spanish conquistadores are trying to enslave the last of the Maya.

Level 4 • Up to 1,500 words

Don Luis returns to his hometown before beginning his new life as a priest. But when he meets a beautiful woman, will he change his plans?

Level 5 • Up to 2000 words

The hero in this tale enters the seminary as a spy for the "Organization". His life is clearly divided into two worlds, the outside world and the cloistered existence of the seminary.

Level 4 • Up to 1,500 words

Paco is a 10-year-old boy who recently migrated to the USA. He writes his autobiography to comply with a school assignment. Read Paco’s humorous and candid story that promotes cultural and racial pride, persistence and determination to achieve personal goals, multiculturalism, and family ties.

A weekend trip to Tepoztlan, Mexico becomes an incredible adventure for a group of teenagers when they stumble upon a hidden city, sacred to ancient Mayan gods. In this fast-paced novel, Mexican author José Agustín has done an outstanding job of mixing pre-Columbian Mexican history into this modern adventure.

In this book, best-selling Ecuadorian author, Edna Iturralde, writes twelve stories that portray the lives of the people who live in the green pastures to the right of the great mountains in the eastern part of Ecuador. It is known for its forest, exotic animals, and indigenous unknown towns.

Reading Don Quixote has never been easier and funnier! Cervantes’s extraordinary and immortal novel is presented to young readers (ages 12 and up) with the fascination of the original story, yet providing a linguistic simplicity that ensures comprehension and enjoyment. The text has been adapted and the chapters have been selected to focus on the interest of this age group without disrupting the basic plot. The notes explain terms and historical references with a humorous tone, which adds to the pleasure of the reading.

Lincoln gets into a jam when the basketball team at his new school, where the students are rich and mostly white, face his old team from the barrio. How can he play his best game ever against his friends? But how can he betray his new teammates by not giving the game everything he's got? No matter who wins, it looks like it will be a lose-lose situation for Lincoln.

This book contains stories filled with mysterious events. In one of them, the tolling of the bells in an old sugar refinery is always an omen of tragedy. In another, a town suffers endless catastrophes because its inhabitants did not heed the advice of a wizard.

The subject of ghosts is a must in any urban legend. In this book, fearless readers will find two ghost legends; the story behind the famous Well of Jacinto and the mystery of the apparition of a “fairy” in the Manati Cemetery.

This is a book legends that is full of unbelievable and crazy happenings. In one, a gentleman orders the reading of his family's coat of arms to hear the sacristan and his executioner reveal the secrets of his ancestors. In another, readers will find out who is the strange and mysterious man that visits a young ill widow. 

This book is a gathering of classical legends that have bewitched us all, and is for intrepid little readers who are not afraid of searching for new challenges and thrills. From every corner of the globe, well-known characters, la Chillona, la Patasola, la Pesanta, Juan Sin Miedo, come to remind us how it feels to be truly scared yet unable to put a book down.

In this unique collection of short stories, the small events of daily life reveal big themes such as love and friendship, youth and growing up, and success and failure. Poet Gary Soto calls on his own experiences in growing up in California's Central Valley to bring to life the joys and pains of young people everywhere. The smart, tough, and vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong to all of us.
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Gerardo leaves a turbulent life in Madrid to become a student in turn-of-the-century Santiago de Compostela. Here he discovers the beauty of Galician women. Level 3 • Up to 1000 words

This is a fictional autobiography of a street boy’s “apprenticeship” to various cruel and treacherous masters such as a blind beggar, a miserly priest, and a bankrupt “gentleman.” This comical tale, written in Spain in 1554, is an artful satire full of extreme perseverance and brazen self-promotion.

A young priest arrives at Pazos de Ulloa to help Don Pedro manage his household. The priest soon discovers that behind the noble facade lies disaster, ruin, and worst of all, sin.

Level 6 • Up to 2,500 words

Miguel begins an exciting adventure in search of gold. He leaves behind his boyhood and becomes a man as he searches for treasure in the New World.

Level 4 • Up to 1,500 words

Miguel arrives in Peru with Don Santiago. There, he begins the search for Incan King Atahualpa's mythical treasure.

Level 4 • Up to 1,500 words

Julio is a writer who has yet to write anything. What is the connection between his imaginary novel and his own love life? Is the ending of one novel also the outcome of the other?

Level 3 • Up to 1000 words