Mecánicos (Mechanics)

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.

In this inspiring biography, readers will learn about the incredible journey of Helen Keller. Using informational, Spanish-translated text and expressive images and photos, readers will discover the undeniable determination that Keller had as a young deaf and blind girl and how her teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her to read, write, speak, and graduate from college. With a timeline, a bibliography, and a glossary of terms, children are given the tools they need to expand their knowledge about this fascinating and inspiring woman.

Nunca en la literatura universal se ha producido un florecimiento de poetas que en cantidad y calidad pueda ser comparado con el grupo poético del 27 español. La sola mención de sus nombres bastará para confirmar que estamos en uno de los períodos más brillantes de nuestra lírica: Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, Gerardo Diego, Dámaso Alonso, Vicente Aleixandre, Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Emilio Prados, Manuel Altolaguirre... Entre todos lograron una original síntesis de tradición y modernidad, de clasicismo y vanguardia, de lo español y lo universal....

There is a contest at a school to design a new playground. The students use blocks to build their models. As they build, they use three-dimensional shapes. Some students build a train out of blocks for the younger students to play on. Can you guess which three-dimensional shape they use for the train's wheels? Read to find out which design wins.

El libro secreto de los mayas es una recreación de las leyendas contenidas en el Popol Vuh, obra que recoge la teoría cosmogónica de esta cultura mesoamericana previa a la llegada de los conquistadores españoles. El texto está adaptado al lenguaje de las edades a las que va dirigido, entre los 11 y los 15 años, y la narración es muy cuidada para que el ritmo despierte el interés de los estudiantes, afirmando un verdadero interés por la lectura en general.