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Invites young readers to find various quantities of the people, animals, and other labeled items in the illustrations of city scenes, including an Arab market town, a Southeast Asian river town, a European town square, and other areas. Simultaneous.

Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. She is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an...

El viaje a Gósol fue algo totalmente imprevisto e improvisado para Picasso y Fernande, dispuestos a una estancia urbana, se encontraron en medio de la mayor fortaleza de montañas que habían visto en su vida. Pero, en realidad, se estaba esgrimiendo un viaje mucho más audaz y definitivo: el tránsito vertiginoso del pintor hacia un nuevo lenguaje plástico y, con él, hacia la modernidad. Gósol fue, simplemente, el maravilloso escenario de esta Gran Aventura, probablemente el mejor de los que Picasso, urbanista de alma rústica, hubiera podido pergeñar jamás.

Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Texas in the early 1900s. This appealing biography has been translated into Spanish and highlights Johnson's life as he represented Texas in the United States Congress for 24 years and became the 36th President of the United States. Through engaging images, intriguing sidebars and facts, easy to read text, and a supportive glossary and index, readers will learn about interesting topics such as the Higher Education Act, Voting Rights Act, Minority Whip, and the Vietnam War. Readers will be eager to learn more about Johnson's fascinating life as they move from...