Helen Keller

Anne Frank's diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world. Readers will learn about Anne as she went into hiding from the Nazi Party in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through vibrant images, informational text, timelines, and a glossary of terms, readers will discover the hardships Anne and her family went through in order to avoid being sent to a concentration camp. This inspiring biography enables children to look up to Anne and find hope in every situation, just as she did.

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.

Uncover some of the most infamous disasters in the world including the Hindenburg, the sinking of the Titanic, the Dust Bowl, BP oil spill, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, and the Chernobyl disaster in this shocking book. With its intriguing facts, vivid images, helpful graphs and maps, and informational text, this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title will keep readers informed, engaged, and interested from cover to cover.

Young readers will be inspired by this biography about the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. The appealing images, helpful text, and supportive timeline, glossary, table of contents, and index combine to create an engaging experience as readers learn about one of the greatest female pilots of all time. This 6-Pack has been translated into Spanish and includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

¿Quién dijo que las mujeres no eran exploradoras? Todos conocemos el nombre de algún pirata famoso, o de un astronauta que haya llegado al espacio, pero...¿y las mujeres? Muchas lo petaron en sus viajes o inventaron máquinas con las que alcanzaron nuevos hitos. Aquí podrás encontrar a 25 superaventureras que cambiaron el mundo y demostraron su poder. Muchas de ellas han tenido un papel decisivo en nuestra historia y nunca lo hemos sabido, pero ahora ha llegado el momento de homenajearlas y decir en voz alta que¡las chicas van donde quieren! ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Whoever said that women...

Groups of American Indians had been living in the Texas region for thousands of years when American settlers decided to expand westward. This captivating book has been translated into Spanish and explores the history of American Indians in Texas and how each group found different ways to live in the region they inhabited. Readers will learn about a variety of tribes, including Karankawa tribe, Jumano, Caddo, Lipan Apache, and Shoshone and discover how they struggled to survive European colonization, the Indian Removal Act, and American expansion. Other topics include the Dawes Act, Indian...

No town or city could be built if the builders didn't understand the concepts of perimeter and area. Students will use perimeter and area to build towns and cities and design homes and parks in the book, Pueblos y ciudades (Towns and Cities). At home or in the classroom, this nonfiction book will engage students in learning measurement and geometry, and how to grid patterns, through fun practice problems and diagrams.

El presente trabajo indaga sobre la posibilidad que tienen los colombianos en Madrid, particularmente migrantes originarios de Pereira, departamento de Risalda, de plantear proyectos que aporten al desarrollo de sus zonas de origen. El colectivo colombiano epresenta uno de los más numerosos de entre los latinoamericanos en Madrid, únicamente superado por el ecuatoriano y, en últimas fechas, por el boliviano. (2) Aunado a ello, entre los andinos, los colombianos son los que comparten menos características en cuanto a su perfil sociodemográfico, y estrategias de salida —puntualmente en...