Amelia Earhart 6-Pack

Uncover some of the most infamous disasters in the world including the Hindenburg, the sinking of the Titanic, the Dust Bowl, BP oil spill, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, and the Chernobyl disaster in this shocking book. With its intriguing facts, vivid images, helpful graphs and maps, and informational text, this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title will keep readers informed, engaged, and interested from cover to cover.

Anne Frank's diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world. Readers will learn about Anne 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.

In this inspiring biography, readers will learn about the incredible journey of Helen Keller. Using informational, Spanish-translated text and expressive images and photos, readers will discover the undeniable determination that Keller had as a young deaf and blind girl and how her teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her to read, write, speak, and graduate from college. With a timeline, a bibliography, and a glossary of terms, children are given the tools they need to expand their knowledge about this fascinating and inspiring woman.

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.

Desde la más remota antigüedad las personas han sentido fascinación por la luna, el astro más cercano a nuestro planeta. Los babilonios y los aztecas, por ejemplo, confeccionaron calendarios muy precisos basándose en las observaciones de la luna. Nuestro satélite natural en el momento en que se encuentra más cerca de la tierra está a 365.000 kilómetros de distancia. El estudio de la luna tuvo un gran impulso cuando el gran científico italiano Galileo Galilei inventó el telescopio en 1610 y con ayuda de este instrumento pudo realizar interesantes observaciones que le permitieron...

En 1902, recluido en su cottage del condado de Kent (Pent Farm), Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) consagró varios meses a rehacer y completar la novela Seraphina, que su amigo Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) acababa de terminar. Era una novela sobre piratas cubanos, comenzada en 1898. Conrad la transformó considerablemente y le cambió el título, apareciendo por fin en 1903 bajo el nombre de ambos. Dos años antes ya habían publicado otra experiencia mano a mano: la sorprendente novela The Inheritors, An Extravagant Story (Los herederos, 1901), y en 1923 volverían a publicar juntos The Nature of a...

Have you ever wondered how the wind makes a kite fly? Learn about the wind with this fun STEAM book for kindergarten that makes it easy for parents and teachers to introduce STEAM and beginner science topics to their youngest learners. Created in collaboration with Smithsonian, this Spanish book uses real-world examples to make STEAM topics easier to understand. It features an age-appropriate STEAM activity that is perfect for makerspaces and introduces English language learners to the steps of the engineering design process. It helps beginning readers learn to read and is ideal for...

Este libro forma parte de una serie de textos destinados a ofrecer una presentación básica de las ideas fundamentales de las ciencias naturales. Han sido escritos en un lenguaje claro y abordan los hechos esenciales acerca de cada tema, incluyendo excelentes fotografías que dan a conocer interesantes detalles del tema tratado. Además cuentan con un vocabulario básico que será de gran utilidad para los lectores infantiles. En este texto dedicado al caballo, se ilustra el proceso de crecimiento y desarrollo de los mamíferos con imágenes en primer plano que contribuyen a facilitar la...