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El insti no es nada fcil...Tener superpoderes todava menos! Ponte la capa y descubre las aventuras de Batgirl en Super Hero High. Barbara Gordon siempre ha sido un cerebrito y un genio de la tecnologa, pero no tiene superpoderes ms all de su mente prodigiosa y su memoria fotogrfica. Sin embargo, cuando Supergirl se entera de sus habilidades, a Barbara le llega la oportunidad de su vida: una invitacin para estudiar en Super Hero High, la escuela de lite para superheronas. Por supuesto, Barbara no duda ni un segundo en aceptar el desafo de entrenar junto a las adolescentes ms poderosas de la Galaxia y se convierte en Batgirl, la nueva chica del insti. Barbara siempre ha tenido el corazn de una herona... pero ahora tendr que demostrar que lo es de verdad!ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONGet your cape on with the DC Super Hero Girls -- the unprecedented new Super Hero universe especially for girls! Readers of all ages can fly high with the all-new adventures of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, and some of the world's most iconic female super heroes as high schoolers! Batgirl has always hidden in the shadows -- but does she have what it takes to stand in the spotlight at Super Hero High Barbara Gordon has always been an off-the-charts, just-forget-about-the-test super-genius and tech whiz, and then she gets the offer of a lifetime when Supergirl recognizes that Barbara's talents make her an ideal candidate for Super Hero High. Donning the cape and cowl, Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl, ready to train at the most elite school on the planet, next to some of the most powerful teenagers in the galaxy. She's always had the heart of a hero . . . but now she'll have to prove that she can be one. Good thing she loves a challenge! Award-winning author Lisa Yee brings mystery, thrills, and laughs to this groundbreaking series that follows DC Comics most iconic female Super Heroes and Super-Villains. Move over Batman and Superman -- the DC Super Hero Girls are ready to save the day and have fun doing it! Praise for DC Super Hero Girls:"Sure to have wide appeal, this book is a solid option to balance collections saturated with male superheroes." - School Library Journal



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Lisa Yee

Lisa Yee was born and raised near Los Angeles. As a kid, she loved reading, opening brand new boxes of cereal (to get the prize) , and riding the teacups at Disneyland. Lisa attended Brightwood Elementary School in Monterey Park, California where she once won an award for best decorated cake. However, Lisa cut the ribbon in half because her friend Linda had also worked on the cake, and they had agreed to split any prize they might win. While at Alhambra High School, Lisa was on the debate team and president of the honor society. On occasion, she would ditch class and sneak off to the library. (Okay, so she never quite figured out the juvenile delinquent thing. ) At the University of Southern California, she majored in English and Humanities, and she also took a bowling class. Lisa has been an inventor, a hand model, and the associate director of a creative think tank. At Walt Disney World Lisa was a writer/producer and one time, when she was the only short person around, she got to be Mickey Mouse. As co-owner and creative director of Magic Pencil Studios, a strategic creative company, she's written and directed creative projects for Fortune 500 clients, led creativity seminars for dairy farmers (moo) , and been featured in the Wall Street Journal for her obsessive workaholic behavior. (She is now practically, totally cured of this. ) Lisa's been part of the Official Olympic Committee Torch Run Caravan (until the police requested that she leave) , and she's been paid to eat chocolate. But what she likes doing most is writing. Her writing assignments have included labels for cans of refried beans and a speech for the President of the United States (The President's speechwriters rewrote the speech but they did include Lisa's immortal words, "Hello, Joan and Ben. ") Lisa has also penned her own newspaper column, written TV and radio commercials, menus that have been read by millions, jingles for waffles, and television specials for Disney. Livesin South Pasadena, California. In her spare time, Lisa likes to read, make things out of junk, and consider taking a nap. Her HUGE collection of Winnie the-Poohs is on loan to the White River (Ontario) Winnie-the-Pooh Museum.With the publication of Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Lisa has realized her lifelong dream of becoming an author. The winner of the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award, there are over 500,000 copies of MILLIE in print. Lisa's second novel, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time won the Chinese American Librarian Association Best Book of the Year award, and was named an American Library Association Notable Book. Lisa was also named the 2007 Thurber House Children's Author-in-Residence. Her third novel, So Totally Emily Ebers came out in 2007 and so did Good Luck, Ivy, an American Girl historical novel.In 2009, Lisa's first YA novel, Absolutely Maybe, debuted, as did Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) , the first of her new chapter book series



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