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Even as the world changes, skilled labor will always be needed. There's nothing quite like the ability to create things with your skills and your own hands. Carpenters use their skills to build things we use every day, including items such as furniture, buildings, and bridges. They read building plans, choose materials, design, and create. This book teaches kids that to become a carpenter, you have to use a lot more than a hammer and nails; you need your brain too. Photographs and diagrams enable readers to make key connections with the text.

Los ríos son capaces de encumbrar o arruinar civilizaciones enteras, dividir culturas o unirlas, y proporcionan pistas decisivas sobre el origen del ser humano. Sumérgete en la apasionante historia de Egipto a través del NILO, conoce a los príncipes bandoleros del RIN, asómbrate con la rica diversidad del AMAZONAS o con las sagradas aguas del GANGES. Descubre qué secreto se esconde en el fondo del río AWASH, cómo el ZAMBEZE cambió África para siempre o por qué casi cualquier canción de éxito se remonta al MISISIPI. Averigua el papel crucial del TÁMESIS, el YANTSÉ y el TIGRIS y...

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...

What substance can act like both a solid and a liquid? Slime! Want to find out how to make your own? Just follow the simple steps inside this book