Chepita

The spider makes an agreement with the lion to eat all of the flies in his cage--but what happens next?

Lily Parker, a junior at St. Sophia's School for Girls, is distracted by preparations for the fall formal when a Reaper infiltrates the school and Lily discovers that a magic blackout in Chicago may prevent her from driving him out.

In his first year of school, Francisco understands little of what his teacher says. But he is drawn to the silent, slow-moving caterpillar in the jar next to his desk. He knows caterpillars turn into butterflies, but just how do they do it? To find out, he studies the words in a butterfly book so many times that he can close his eyes and see the black letters, but he still can't understand their meaning. Illustrated with paintings as deep and rich as the wings of a butterfly, this honest, unsentimental account of a schoolchild's struggle to learn language reveals that our imaginations...

En esta novela, Payno retrata al México del siglo XIX —desde el mismo ambiente hasta la descripción de los personajes— y despliega una historia romántica acerca del amor imposible entre Mariana del Sauz y Juan Robreño. Éste, impulsado por las adversidades y su infausto destino, decide crear a Los Dorados, pandilla de famosos ladrones que robaban a los ricos y daban a los pobres, y que pertenecía asimismo a Los bandidos de Río Frío, gavilla comandada por un coronel que en la vida real sirvió al mismísimo general Santa Anna.