¡Hang Ten! Surf

Readers find out what it's like for astronauts to eat, sleep, and work on a manned space flight in this adventurous, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Children will discover what it's like to be weightless in zero gravity, how Mission control helps keep astronauts safe, and what astronauts do during their free time through vivid photographs, interesting, informative text, and stimulating facts.

Act out the story of Sophia, a young girl who is nervous about moving to a new town and having her life change. By hearing her Grandmother's story about immigrating to America, Sophia learns that making a change and moving forward can lead to very good things! The roles in this Spanish-translated script are written at different reading levels. This feature allows teachers to use differentiation strategies to assign specific roles to students in a way that accommodates individual reading skills. By using differentiation, teachers can get all students involved and engaged in the same activity,...

Discover the different ways that people spend, save, and budget their money. Readers are introduced to important personal financial aspects such as savings accounts, budgets, budget analysis, credit and debit cards, and taxes. Through Spanish-translated informational text, vivid photos, and helpful graphs and charts that assist in implementing mathematical skills such as percentages, readers will be encouraged to save and spend their money wisely and responsibly.

B+En algunas personas, bajo las apariencias de una ramplona trivialidad, surge a veces la revelacion de las estructuras profundas de lo real.B; B+Las Tres graciasB; , B+El puenteB; y B+El burdel de las gitanasB; son tres relatos iniciaticos que, como otras obras narrativas de Mircea Eliade, estan estrechamente ligados a sus estudios sobre religion y mitos. Sus personajes, entre la memoria y el sueno, transitan las melancolicas calles de Bucarest o recorren los paisajes rumanos en busca de una respuesta a la existencia y sus misterios.

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.

For those who enjoy unconventional solutions, the author offers a wide range of all-time paradoxes that defy your deductive and calculation skills with impossible logical truths, and helps you to learn how to overcome the traps of false truths.

This book introduces you to giraffes, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.