Amelia Earhart

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to ever walk on the moon! Readers will be engaged from cover to cover as they learn about Armstrong's inspirational career as an astronaut in this biography that features additional information on gravity, NASA, and the moon landing. The vivid images work in conjunction with the supportive text, timeline, glossary, and index to allow for better understanding of the content. This book has been translated into Spanish.

The world around us is more powerful than we know. Discover how earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and more have affected people and places around the world in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through informational text, vivid images, and stunning facts and charts, readers will learn about disasters such as The Great Potato Famine, Hurricane Katrina, Mount St. Helens, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as well as epidemics and pandemics such as the bubonic plague and swine flu.

Anne Frank's diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world. Readers will learn about Anne's life as she went into hiding from the Nazi Party in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through vibrant images, informational text, timelines, and a glossary of terms, readers will discover the hardships Anne and her family went through in order to avoid being sent to a concentration camp. This inspiring biography enables children to look up to Anne and find hope in every situation, just as she did. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Students will develop their math skills while engaged in reading about Yosemite National Park. This book seamlessly integrates the teaching of math and reading, and uses real-world examples to teach geometry concepts like calculating perimeter and area. Text features include a glossary, an index, captions, and a table of contents to increase students’ vocabulary and reading comprehension skills as they interact with the text. The rigorous practice problems, math charts and diagrams, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what...

Leonard B. Meyer explica en este libro como funcionan los mecanismos de la mente para percibir y entender la musica. Sus paginas constituyen un lucido estudio de la psicologia de la percepcion musical que ha sido profusamente citado por musicologos, compositores y filosofos desde su primera edicion de 1956. Entre sus admiradores figuran Umberto Eco y Enrico Fubini, cuyos comentarios aparecen recogidos en el amplio prologo escrito por el prestigioso compositor Jose Luis Turina, autor tambien de la traduccion. &la" El objeto principal de este ensayo --senala Turina-- es doble: de un lado,...

Phoenix sueña con conocer el mundo que hay más allá de los altos muros que protegen su aldea. Un día, decide incumplir las normas y abandona su hogar para adentrarse en el bosque mágico del cual tantas leyendas ha escuchado. Pero su viaje prohibido tiene consecuencias fatales para su hermano Xander: cuando Phoenix regresa a la aldea, descubre que su hermano se ha convertido ¡en un horrible zombi!

Con materiales disponibles en cualquier hogar, puedes realizar sencillos y divertidos experimentos que te ayudarán a entender mejor la física, ciencia que explica cómo se comporta la materia cuando no se altera su composición, y la química, que nos cuenta qué pasa y por qué cuando la materia se transforma, es decir, cuando unas sustancias se convierten en otras. Estos experimentos no entrañan peligro y no requieren uso de sustancias especiales. Son fáciles de realizar y están dirigidos a niños que ya han alcanzado un nivel aceptable de lectura comprensiva, a partir de los 10 años. ...