In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power: the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.

When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create life in his laboratory, he sets in motion tragic forces beyond his control and faces losing everything he loves. No reader in the grip of Mary Shelley’s novel, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the countless adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), the teenaged Shelley managed to produce English Romanticism’s finest prose fiction. This edition reproduces her original 1818 text.

It’s not every day that the Devil knocks on your door From the critically-acclaimed author of Only Forward comes a delightful new tale about Hannah, a young girl living a mundane existence in California, who discovers that her grandfather has been friends with the Devil for the past 150 years . . . and now, they need her help.

PNL/ Metas Curriculares, 8.º ano. Teatro. «A Mãe diz que eu devia querer uma coisa de menina. Diz que sou uma menina e que tenho de querer coisas de menina, senão os rapazes não gostam de mim. Já reparaste como são estúpidos os brinquedos das raparigas? Descobre a luta da pequena Vanessa contra os estereótipos da sociedade nesta divertida peça de teatro escrita numa linguagem jovem e atual.»

PNL/ Metas Curriculares, 8.º ano. Teatro. «A Mãe diz que eu devia querer uma coisa de menina. Diz que sou uma menina e que tenho de querer coisas de menina, senão os rapazes não gostam de mim. Já reparaste como são estúpidos os brinquedos das raparigas? Descobre a luta da pequena Vanessa contra os estereótipos da sociedade nesta divertida peça de teatro escrita numa linguagem jovem e atual.»

Leitura recomendada para o 8.º ano de escolaridade. Numa história com sabor a mar, Manuel António Pina traz-nos a aventura de Manuel, um corajoso rapaz que tudo fará para proteger o seu pai… incluindo enfrentar o gigante Adamastor! Atreve-te a conhecer este enredo, no qual se misturam a realidade e a imaginação, o fantástico e o terrível, e que te surpreenderá até à última página. A coleção Educação Literária reúne obras de leitura obrigatória e recomendada no Ensino Básico e Ensino Secundário e referenciadas no Plano Nacional de Leitura.

Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.