Honremos a nuestros héroes: Día de los Veteranos (Remembering Our Heroes: Veterans Day)

Teach young students about the men and women who serve in the armed forces for the United States. This Spanish-translated nonfiction book helps readers understand the importance of our nation's veterans, and how to honor them on Veteran's Day. Primary source documents and images engage readers as they build their literacy skills and social studies content knowledge.

Teach young students about ways to serve their communities. This Spanish-translated book encourages readers to help others and do their part in the community. Primary source images support the text and engage readers to help them better understand the content. Informational text features help students navigate the text.

In the middle of the 1830s, Texans fought against the Mexican government for its independence. During the Texas Revolution, many leaders emerged, such as Sam Houston, Lorenzo de Zavala, William Travis, Francita Alavez, Sidney Sherman, Susanna Dickinson, James Bowie, and Juan Seguín. This captivating biography has been translated into Spanish and allows readers to learn about the incredible accomplishments of these people and what they did to make an impact on the Texas Revolution. Featuring alluring images, engaging facts and sidebars, supportive text, and a glossary and index, this book...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.

Este libro presenta el concepto y el vocabulario básico de las virtudes, y ayuda a los niños a reconocer y a clasificar los diferentes buenos comportamientos que aún tienen que desarrollar.

Kurdo Baksi, compañero y confidente de Stieg Larsson, proporciona información de primera mano contada con gran humanidad sobre un autor ya mítico.¿Cómo llegó a convertirse Stieg Larsson, uno de los líderes de la lucha contra el racismo y el fascismo en Suecia, en uno de los autores más leídos del mundo? Para entender esto hay que aproximarse al hombre que hay detrás de Millennium, a ese autor enigmático y fascinante. Este libro nos proporciona las respuestas desde un acercamiento al creador de Lisbeth Salander por uno de sus mejores amigos, el también periodista Kurdo Baksi, que...

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging, Spanish book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike. They also learn different ways to measure speed and read about energy uses for different vehicles. With greater speed comes greater risk. Readers learn how engineers are always seeking new and better ways to keep people safe as they travel faster and go farther. This 6-Pack includes six...