Lisa Thompson
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes I think everyone would be better off if I'd never existed in the first place."Nothing's going right for Maxwell Beckett. He's being blamed for his best friend's bloody nose -- it was an accident! -- his parents can't stop shouting at each other, and he just broke his neighbor's bright pink flamingo lawn ornament. So when Maxwell turns off the power in his school during a giant fundraiser, it's the last straw. He's sure that...
Author
Publisher
Destino Infantil & Juvenil
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Maxwel siempre está metiéndose en problemas. Siempre. La única forma que tiene de huir de ellos es deambular por el barrio con Monster, un perro al que salvó de ser atropellado, y visitar a su amigo Reg.
Hasta que llega un mal día, uno realmente malo, y Maxwell desea desaparecer… Y sucede.
De repente, todo cambia a su alrededor: nadie le atosiga y puede caminar tranquilo por el barrio sin que lo vecinos le vigilen… Al principio todo parece...
Author
Publisher
Destino Infantil & Juvenil
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
La vida de Matthew Corbin, un chico de doce años con trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, transcurre en la más absoluta pulcritud e intimidad: su pánico a los gérmenes le obliga a vivir encerrado en su habitación. Convencido de que el mínimo trato con otras personas puede contagiarle alguna enfermedad, Matthew pasa los días mirando el mundo a través de la ventana.
Sin embargo, un hecho imprevisto sacude su existencia: un niño ha desaparecido en...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Melody Bird is fascinated by the walled off "plague" house she discovered near the the graveyard, but she is even more fascinated by the mysterious boy, Hal, she finds living there in secret; he tells her he is a spy-in-training, a story that Melody's friends Matthew and Jake do not believe, and they set out to find out more--and uncover a riddle even more confusing than Hal's spy story.
6) Lucy's mask
Author
Publisher
[Lisa Sirkis Thompson]
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Suddenly, masks are everywhere. Are your kids confused and anxious about wearing a mask? Lucy's world turned upside down. She's bored. She can't be together with her friends. But when she finds out her mom is making her a new mask her boredom turns into excitement. Lucy loves masks! She dives into her toy box full of costumes and opens a world of imagination and make-believe adventure, far beyond the walls of her room. Of course, she doesn't realize...