Los Primates

Nadar y leer son dos cosas muy difíciles de aprender. Da mucho miedo meterse en la piscina cuando no se hace pie o abrir un libro lleno de palabras incomprensibles. Óscar necesita ayuda para divertirse en el agua y para leer un libro de mayores, pero llegará un día en el que los brazos y las piernas se moverán al ritmo adecuado y las frases, por fin, tendrán sentido.

A young girl explains how she and her diverse group of friends are all different from each other. In this first-person nonfiction narrative, vibrant photographs reinforce the idea of a community of students who respect each other and live in harmony. A picture-word glossary is included.

Provides detailed instructions for experiments involving cells, the brain, the senses, breathing, circulation, and other areas of the human body.

Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.