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.

Computer science is all around us, at school, at home, and in the community. This book gives readers the essential tools they need to understand the computer science concept of problem decomposition. Brilliant color photographs and accessible text will engage readers and allow them to connect deeply with the concept. The computer science topic is paired with an age-appropriate curricular topic to deepen readers' learning experience and show how problem decomposition works in the real world. In this book, readers will learn how to break down their research into different kinds of sources. This ...

A 2014 report by the US Department of Education found that 22 percent of students ages twelve to eighteen had experienced bullying. This cogent narrative provides readers with supportive methods to help a friend who is being bullied and to promote a bully-free learning environment at school. Physical, social, psychological, and verbal bullying are examined, as well as cyberbulling. Readers discover the consequences of bullying both as a target and as a bystander. They also consider ways to intervene in a bullying situation, how to seek adult help, and how to be empowered and recover from...

Snowy introduces emergent readers to snow and its associated weather conditions while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once.

Dice la higuera que hace muchos años, una tarde asoleada, su vida cambió de pronto cuando escuchó claramente que se abrió el portón de la calle y apareció Octavio, que abría muy grandes los ojos azules conociéndolo todo con curiosidad. Así el inicio de la vida de uno de los autores más importantes de México, único ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura.