Han pasado solo unas semanas desde que Van descubrió un secreto mágico: que los deseos realmente pueden hacerse realidad y que una sociedad misteriosa llamada los Coleccionistas nos protege de las terribles consecuencias que incluso el más mínimo deseo puede acarrear. Van sabe muy bien cómo los deseos pueden salir mal: su madre se está recuperando de una pierna rota, su amigo Pebble ha sido robado por el malvado coleccionista de deseos, el señor Falborg, docenas de criaturas peligrosas llamadas Devorasueños han escapado al mundo, y el mismo Van casi ha muerto, dos veces, todo por culpa de los deseos.
Cuando a la madre de Van se le ofrece un puesto en la famosa Fox Den Opera, ubicada en el tranquilo y hermoso bosque a unas pocas horas al norte de la ciudad, ella se lleva a Van con ella, con la esperanza de que este sea un hogar más seguro para su familia de dos. Pero Fox Den es el hogar de un antiguo Devorasueños, una criatura poderosa con la capacidad de conceder deseos que tienen consecuencias catastróficas; un devorador de deseos que al señor Falborg le encantaría tener en sus manos. Van deberá unirse a los Coleccionistas y encontrar una manera de detenerlo antes de que pida un deseo que deje al mundo sumido en el caos.
Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.
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Jacqueline West es la autora de la aclamada serie Otro lugar. Sus relatos y poemas han aparecido en numerosas publicaciones. Es cantante y actriz de formación, y todavía sigue actuando en teatros locales. Vive con su familia en Red Wing.
Incluso el deseo más pequeño puede ser peligroso. Por eso Los devorasueños te vigilan siempre.
Un mundo oculto donde los deseos son robados y los sueños tienen un precio.
Giovanni Markson, Van para los amigos que no tiene y Minivan para los niños del cole que le hacen la vida imposible, es un chico de 11 años que siempre se fija en los detalles. Ya sea por su deficiencia auditiva o por su naturaleza inquieta, Van siempre está alerta, y gracias a ello encuentra pequeños tesoros, como un muñeco astronauta o una canica marmolada, que guarda en su caja de tesoros.
Gracias a esta capacidad de atención, Van repara en una niña con un abrigo largo y oscuro que intenta coger monedas del fondo de una fuente. Pero eso no es lo más peculiar de ella... sino que la acompaña ¡una ardilla que habla! La niña, sorprendida de que sea capaz de verla, acaba huyendo de él, pero días más tarde la vuelve a ver espiando llamada Pebble, pertenece a una especie de sociedad que se dedica a coleccionar luces en botellas de cristal. ¿Qué son esas luces? ¿Por qué nadie más puede verlos? ¿Por qué quieren retenerlo por haberlos descubierto?
Poco después, Van conocerá al señor Hvalborg, quien también conoce esa misteriosa red subterránea que se dedica a coleccionar... deseos. Al parecer, no todos los deseos son buenos, e incluso los buenos deseos a menudo tienen consecuencias involuntarias, y los Coleccionistas han asumido el deber de protegernos. Pero él no lo ve con buenos ojos. El pequeño Van tendrá que decidir de qué bando está. ¿Quiénes son los malos: los que impiden o los que garantizan que se cumplan los deseos?
Una historia sobre la amistad, la magia y la frontera invisible entre la bondad y la maldad. De ritmo rápido, ingenioso y fascinante, esta aventura de fantasía contemporánea entreteje la magia en cada página.
Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.
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Jacqueline West es la autora de la aclamada serie Otro lugar. Sus relatos y poemas han aparecido en numerosas publicaciones. Es cantante y actriz de formación, y todavía sigue actuando en teatros locales. Vive con su familia en Red Wing.
Even the smallest wish can be dangerous. That’s why the Collectors are always keeping watch.
The Collectors sweeps listeners into a hidden world where wishes are stolen and dreams have a price. Fast-paced, witty, and riveting, this contemporary fantasy adventure has magic woven through every page.
It's the first book in a two-book series from Jacqueline West, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Books of Elsewhere series. For fans of Serafina and the Black Cloak, The Isle of the Lost, and The Secret Keepers.
Van has always been an outsider. Most people don’t notice him. But he notices them. And he notices the small trinkets they drop, or lose, or throw away—that’s why his collection is full of treasures. Then one day, Van notices a girl stealing pennies from a fountain, and everything changes. He follows the girl, Pebble, and uncovers an underground world full of wishes and the people who collect them. Apparently not all wishes are good and even good wishes often have unintended consequences—and the Collectors have made it their duty to protect us. But they aren't the only ones who have their eyes on the world’s wishes—and they may not be the good guys, after all.
Jacqueline West, author of the New York Times–bestselling Books of Elsewhere series, draws readers into a story about friendship, magic, and the gray area between good and evil. The Collectors is for fans of Cassie Beasley’s Circus Mirandus and Jonathan Auxier’s The Night Gardener.
Liar meets Romeo and Juliet in this Shakespeare-inspired young adult novel about trusting yourself when everyone is telling you your instincts are wrong.
Jaye wakes up in the hospital, disoriented and beset by a slippery morphing of reality into something else. She repeatedly sees a boy who she feels like she knows-but that's impossible. Determined to get back to school and back to A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she's starring, she lies to her sister, her mom, and her doctors-she's fine, she says. She's fine, she's fine, she's fine. But then on her first day back, she takes a seat in class next to the mysterious boy. Queasy with anxiety ("I can't see you," she hisses at him, "because you're not really here"), Jaye realizes this boy is, in fact, real. And he has no idea what she's talking about.
Caught between this fascinating, empathetic new kid and her childhood friend turned recent love interest, Jaye begins to notice unnerving similarities between her circumstances and those of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Tingling banter and clandestine meet-ups give way to darker, muddier incidents. As things escalate to a frightening pitch, how much of what's happening is real, how much is in Jaye's head, and how much does it matter as she's hurtling toward a fateful end over which she seems to have no control?
"Engrossing...A dizzying new twist on one of the Bard's most famous plays."-Kirkus Reviews
The fifth and final book in The Books of Elsewhere, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling, fan-favorite series--absolutely not to be missed.
Annabelle McMartin is gone for good, but something worse lurks just out of sight--watching, waiting, preparing to strike. Then a field trip to the local art museum reveals a shock. What Olive discovers will create a chain of events that propel her to discoveries she may not wish to uncover, involving Morton's vanished parents and the very deepest, darkest roots of Aldous McMartin's creepy painted world. In this fifth and final book, Olive must seek the full, complex story of Elsewhere, its magical origins, and its creator, and in so doing, face her own fears and limitations--and possibly the destruction of Elsewhere itself. How far will Olive go to save the people and home she loves? And what will be the final cost?
A must-read fantasy series for fans of Pseudonymous Bosch, Coraline, and Septimus Heap.
In Olive's third adventure, what lurks below the house could be as dangerous as what's hidden inside . . .
Some terrifying things have happened to Olive in the old stone house, but none as scary as starting junior high. Or so she thinks. When she plummets through a hole in her backyard, though, she realizes two things that may change her mind: First, the wicked Annabelle McMartin is back. Second, there's a secret underground that unlocks not one but two of Elsewhere's biggest, most powerful, most dangerous forces yet. But with the house's guardian cats acting suspicious, her best friend threatening to move away, and her ally Morton starting to rebel, Olive isn't sure where to turn. Will she figure it out in time? Or will she be lured into Elsewhere, and trapped there for good?
Olive thought she'd uncovered all the house's secrets. She was wrong.
It's Halloween night when strangers come to Linden Street...and something dear to Olive goes missing. To what lengths will she go to get it back? Can she trust the strangers? Will she turn to a new and dangerous magic within the paintings of Elsewhere? Or will she put her faith in her own worst enemies to save the people and home she loves?
The stakes grow higher, the secrets more dangerous, and mystery and magic abound as Olive, the boys, and the cats uncover the true nature of the house on Linden Street. A must-read fantasy series for fans of Pseudonymous Bosch, Coraline, and Septimus Heap.
They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn't mean they don't have skills. And courage - which they will need every ounce of to do battle at sea against the other bands, the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race. The icy waters make for a treacherous playing field . . . especially when not everyone thinks of it as playing.
John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice, creates a new cast of characters to populate his world of Skandians and Araluens, a world millions of young readers around the world have come to know and admire. Full of seafaring adventures and epic battles, Book 1 of The Brotherband Chronicles is sure to thrill readers of Ranger's Apprentice while enticing a whole new generation just now discovering the books.
Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When 11-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there’s something odd about the place—not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings. But when Olive finds a pair of old spectacles in a dusty drawer, she discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside these paintings to a world that’s strangely quiet...and eerily like her own. Yet Elsewhere harbors dark secrets—and Morton, an undersized boy with an outsize temper.
As she and Morton form an uneasy alliance, Olive finds herself ensnared in a plan darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. It’s up to Olive to save the house from the dark shadows, before the lights go out for good. Jacqueline West weaves a tale at turns haunting, moving, and darkly.
