Grant Hill

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.

A simple introduction to the NASCAR driver who is the son of another winning racer, Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

This fun book introduces readers to basic geography words. On each page, a child gives clues to the kind of landform they are sitting on. Then they ask the question, Where am I? Young readers learn about mountains, caves, deserts, and other things in our natural world. An activity at the ends asks readers to match photos with their landform names.

Lara Finch lives a lie. Everyone thinks she is happily married to the faithful Sam. She is actually super bored and misses working. Behind Sam's back, she takes a job in London. Twice a week she takes the sleeper train, where she meets Ellen and Guy. One Friday, Lara disappears from the train without a trace. Her friend Iris does not believe the official story she is told about the disappearance and decides to start her own investigation. Iris cannot believe what she finds out.

Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) fue uno de los mas destacados compositores italianos de la primera mitad del siglo XVIII. Miembro de la aristocracia veneciana, firmo como musico dilettante un gran numero de composiciones vocales e instrumentales. Testigo privilegiado del esplendor operistico que se vivio en la Venecia de su tiempo, El teatro a la moda (ca. 1720) constituye un testimonio unico sobre el fascinante mundo del melodrama barroco. Su estilo satirico proporciona una imagen nitida y viva de los verdaderos protagonistas del mismo (cantantes, empresarios, compositores...), aunque...

"A finales de los años setenta, un muchacho perteneciente a la clase media salvadoreña trata de introducirse en los movimientos sindicalistas locales con la intención de conocer el incipiente movimiento revolucionario. Allí conoce a una guapa trabajadora de una fábrica textil y se propone enamorarla. Sin embargo, la situación se recrudece en El Salvador. Las refriegas sindicales devienen en combates contra el orden militar y la vorágine termina arrastrando a todo el mundo a territorios y rupturas que nunca imaginaron. Se ha desatado la guerra civil salvadoreña. Róger Lindo, con la...