Guía de Los Animales

Have you ever seen a skyscraper that is shaped like an elephant? How about one that looks like waves? Students will learn how to measure area while engaged in reading about the world's coolest skyscrapers! This Spanish book uses real-world examples to teach math concepts, and incorporates nonfiction reading to increase vocabulary and comprehension skills. The practice problems, graphs, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what they've learned to their daily lives. Essential text features like a glossary, index, and table of...

EL LIBRO DE LOS HECHOS INSÓLITOS reúne más de 1.500 noticias que integran un verdadero festín para el curioso. Estructurada atendiendo a distintas y variopintas áreas y dotada de un útil índice temático y onomástico, la presente obra de GREGORIO DOVAL recoge desde sucintas biografías de personajes extraordinarios (la Monja Alférez, Billy el Niño, el marqués de Sade ) e historias de descubrimientos, pérdidas y predicciones, hasta ingeniosas invenciones de productos cotidianos que van del perrito caliente al crucigrama, la razón y ocasiones en que han sucedido episodios tan fuera ...

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. En este poético libro de memorias—ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor, finalista del premio de YALSA de no ficción y premio de honor Walter Dean Myers—la aclamada autora Margarita Engle recrea su infancia, que transcurrió a caballo entre dos culturas durante la Guerra Fría. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island...

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.