Cupido Es un Murcielago

Fifteen-year-old Julián is a shy boy who works in his grandfather's pet store. One day, a girl asks him help to find the best owner for her puppy, since her parents have forbidden her to keep it. She and Julián begin the sweetest story of love and friendship. With strokes of humor and much tenderness, the author bets on understanding in the present to repair the wounds of the past, and to project a much more hopeful future.

A little girl catches a cold from her seatmate at school, chickenpox from her little brother, and other illnesses from other people, but there is one contagion she really does want to catch.

Bear didn't like his name. He was so timid and fearful that both the cats and mice in the neighborhood never missed an opportunity to laugh at him. But one day, Bear discovered that someone loved him just as he was.

Inés era una niña alegre que vivía en Huancayo. Empezó a correr largas distancias representando, primero, a su escuela; luego, a su ciudad; y, finalmente, a todo el Perú. Se convirtió en la campeona más reconocida del atletismo sudamericano. Pero una lesión la apartó, por el momento, de su sueño: llegar por cuarta vez a las Olimpiadas, en representación del Perú.

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...

Act out the story of Sophia, a young girl who is nervous about moving to a new town and having her life change. By hearing her grandmother's story about immigrating to America, Sophia learns that making a change and moving forward can lead to very good things! The roles in this Spanish script are written at different reading levels. This feature allows teachers to use differentiation strategies to assign specific roles to students in a way that accommodates individual reading skills. By using differentiation, teachers can get all students involved and engaged in the same activity, whether...

Llama Llama, la serie narrativa infantil de Anna Dewdney y selección de la lista de grandes éxitos en The New York Times regresa con un nuevo libro de cartón que enseña los colores a través de la comida. Llama Llama quiere pintar, pero todo lo que tiene frente a él es su almuerzo. Con imaginación y creatividad acompañaremos a Llama Llama mientras transforma esta comida en un hermoso retrato de nuestra mamá llama favorita. ¿Cuál será la reacción de Mamá Llama cuando vea su obra de arte? Escrito en rima e ilustrado por JT Morrow, este nuevo libro infantil de cartón enseña los...