Helen Keller

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.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to ever walk on the moon! Readers will be engaged from cover to cover as they learn about Armstrong's inspirational career as an astronaut in this biography that features additional information on gravity, NASA, and the moon landing. The vivid images work in conjunction with the supportive text, timeline, glossary, and index to allow for better understanding of the content. This book has been translated into Spanish.

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.

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.

Los mejores chistes e historietas graciosas para niños reunidos en una colección, con un contenido "blanco" que fomente su sentido del humor y les haga pasar muchos ratos divertidos aprendiendo todo tipo de ocurrencias ingeniosas: en este tomo, chistes para que los chicos se burlen sanamente de las chicas.

"Brief text introduces the concepts of long and short, comparing some of the world's longest animals with animals that are short -- in both English and Spanish"--Provided by publisher.

Victor Domínguez, vicerrector de la Universidad Madrileña de Educación a Distancia muere de forma violenta cerca del estadio. Todo parece indicar que el crimen está relacionado con su actividad profesional. Un asesino en el rectorado retrata con ironía y crudeza la vida universitaria en una España instalada en el inicio de la crisis económica.

Después de La vuelta al mundo de un forro polar rojo, llega esta nueva y apasionante historia para conocer más sobre el fenómeno de la globalización. Al terminar la maratón de su ciudad, Werner, un experimentado periodista, encuentra un par de zapatillas de deporte de lo más peculiares, manchadas de sangre. ¿De quién eran esas zapatillas? Y ¿por qué las dejó tiradas? Werner decide investigar y comienza indagando sobre las zapatillas alemanas de marca. Esto lo lleva hasta China, donde descubrirá la lucrativa industria de las réplicas, para llegar a Adís Abeba, capital de...