La Conspiracion de Las Tias

Thirteen-year-old Hannah Higgins is convinced her summer is ruined when she is forced to travel to Africa and work in a remote village in Kenya with her mom and uncle. Never having been to a developing country, she finds the food gross and the community filthy. She has to live without electricity or running water. Then she is told she must attend school. Just when she thinks nothing could make this trip any worse, she learns people there are dying of hunger and preventable disease. Hannah becomes frustrated and wants to help, but when poverty threatens the lives of people she loves, all she...

Alan Turing fue un científico británico reconocido como el padre de la informática y la inteligencia artificial. Estudio Matemáticas en el King’s College y en la universidad de Princeton desarrolló su interés por la probabilidad y la lógica. Fue reclutado por el Servicio Británico de descifrado cuando estalló la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Creó una máquina para luchar contra Enigma, la máquina a través de la cual los nazis enviaban mensajes cifrados a sus tropas. Gracias a la máquina de Turing se salvaron millones de vidas.

"A wonderfully simple book that’s simply wonderful for reading aloud." — Booklist (starred review) Available in a dual Spanish-English edition! A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Three starred reviews (Booklist, The Horn Book, School Library Journal) One child. One swing. An obliging dad. The inevitable plea to go Higher! Higher! Add Leslie Patricelli’s wildly expressive illustrations, and an everyday pastime reaches new heights of humor and whimsy. How high can it go? Higher than a giraffe? Taller than a mountain? Is Earth the final frontier? In this ingenious story of very few words, ...

Magical friends Unicorn and Yeti love to help each other! Unicornio le tiene un regalo a Yeti, pero este no tiene nada que regalarle a Unicornio. A Yeti le encanta triturar carámbanos, ¡y Unicornio quiere probar! Yeti opina que el bosque oscuro es bonito. ¿Quizás Unicornio deba ver el bosque desde otra perspectiva? ¡Estas historias brillantes y divertidas con ilustraciones coloridas y texto sencillo son perfectas para lectores principiantes! Unicorn has a gift for Yeti. Yeti does not have one to give to Unicorn. Yeti loves to crunch icicles. Unicorn wants to try crunching them, too! Yeti ...