Como crecen las plantas (How Plants Grow): Emergent (Nonfiction Readers)

Mohandas Gandhi was one of the world's great leaders who used nonviolent resistance to protest against the caste system. Readers will learn all about his life, Hinduism, and the amazing things he accomplished in this inspiring, Spanish-translated nonfiction biographical title. Children will be fascinated and enlivened through interesting facts, vivid images, a helpful timeline, and a glossary that assists in improving vocabulary. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

This story follows a robot throughout the day as he recognizes the shapes in the world around him. The bright illustrations and Spanish-translated text work together to engage beginning readers, help them recognize different shapes, and build their foundational reading skills.

Find out how tools have helped people hunt, build, and make life easier in this engaging, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. With colorful images, timelines, charts, a glossary to assist with vocabulary improvement, and an index, children will learn how tools throughout time have made such an important impact on life as we know it! Featured eras include the Stone Age and the Industrial Revolution. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.

Many people around the world live in the forest biome. That’s because temperate forests grow in places where winter isn’t too cold and summer isn’t too hot. Readers learn that we need to care for this biome that’s in so many backyards. Simple, accessible language describes common trees and characteristics of both evergreen and deciduous forests, and full-color photographs highlight their beauty. Animals and their adaptations to this biome are addressed in the main content as well.

Luna deberá prepararse para la Competencia Intercontinental de Patinaje junto con sus amigos del Jam & Roller. Pero, para cumplir sus sueños, tendrá que resolver problemas escolares, sentimientos complicados y algunos malos entendidos... Luna está más confundida que nunca, dividida entre la escuela y la pista, entre Simón y Matteo. ¿Logrará escuchar a su corazón, pasar el año y triunfar en la competencia?

JORGE CARRIÓN (Tarragona, 1976) ha sido profesor en Guatemala, Chicago y Barcelona; y escritor en los cinco continentes. Sus crónicas y críticas literarias han aparecido en medios españoles como Lateral, Quimera, Letras Libres, Clarín y Cultura/s, o latinoamericanos como Travesías y La Tempestad. Es autor de una novela, Ene (2001), y de versiones de Dante y Bernat Metge. Sus textos han sido antologados en México, Argentina y España. Actualmente trabaja en varios proyectos de literaturas de viaje (que transcurren en un meridiano que va desde Australia hasta París, pasando por...