La colonización angloamericana de Texas (Anglo-American Colonization of Texas)

En 1919, el Congreso norteamericano aprobó una ley por la que se prohibía la fabricación y venta de bebidas alcohólicas en los Estados Unidos. Esta ley, conocida como Ley Seca, dio lugar a la mayor proliferación de bandas mafiosas y crímenes de sangre que haya conocido la historia de ese país. El escritor y periodista Walter Noble Burns (1872-1932) –autor de varias obras biográficas sobre legendarios personajes del Oeste, como The saga of Billy The Kid (1926), que hizo famoso al bandido adolescente, y Tombstone (1927), la vida del célebre marshall Wyatt Earp–, vivió en Chicago...

If we could take a trip to the center of the Earth, what would we find? In this amazing book readers can do just that with the help of a special ship that can handle the extreme heat and pressure deep beneath Earth’s crust. Digging through a few miles of the crust is just the start of the nearly 4,000-mile journey to Earth’s core. Readers might be surprised to find that not all of the trip is through solid rock, as the intense heat does strange and amazing things to the material that makes up our planet!

Readers will learn about one of their favorite farm animals--pigs! This title is informative--telling readers what pigs eat, what they look like, and how we use pig products every day. The text is very simple, which will reinforce early reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

Enhanced with bright photographs, this book presents a collection of excerpts from the Pope's speeches and writings selected expressly for young readers to offer words of wisdom and guidance in life's journey.