Dale Earnhardt Jr

Here's another exciting set of sports-themed titles for third- through sixth-grade readers reading at a first-grade level. Help to even out the playing field for your at-risk readers with these sports heroes and hot shots.

This book introduces the former Duke University basketball star, Grant Hill, who now plays for the Detroit Pistons.

Where did the sunflower come from? How does it grow so tall? How can its thin stalk support such a large and heavy head? These and many other questions are answered in this dazzling book. Using lushly detailed illustrations and photographs, the book takes us inside the sunflower to examine its stem, root system, leaves, and flowering heads, proving an understanding of this unique plant's structure, growth, flowering, reproduction, and cultivation.

The Mapuches established themselves in the eleventh century in what is now Argentina and Chile. Their literature is very rich and oral in nature, which highlights the legends that speak of their Gods, beliefs, customs, and stories of their encounters with enemies.

La vida es una historia que siempre acaba mal, precisamente porque siempre acaba. A su través, nos tropezamos con aventuras, amorosas o no, con desastres y con recuperaciones aparentes. Todo es móvil en ella, cambiante... A ese desenfreno vital se refieren estas historias, esperanzadas hasta en su desesperanza, en las que el amor no es un destino, sino un intransferible cometido.

Este libro es una divertida herramienta para entender mejor los pasajes del Evangelio, como las Bienaventuranzas, y comprobar que son muy actuales.