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The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden...

When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves,...

"Natalie, una joven psicóloga, ve como su vida comienza a desmoronarse cuando su marido desaparece haciendo surf. Todo parece indicar que no ha sido más que un trágico accidente, pero una misteriosa llamada telefonica le incita a pensor lo contrario. A partir de ese momento, Natalie se embarca en una búsqueda de la verdad. Jesse, un adolescente de trece años, se traslada al otro lado del mundo tras la tragica de su padre. Conoce a John,...

Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of outlaws, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.