Naturalistas en la cocina

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.

María no puede ir al colegio porque tiene mucha tos. Sus padres trabajan, así que la solución es contratar a Gerda como canguro. Pero, lo que María no entiende es que sus padres la hayan elegido. ¿Es que nadie se da cuenta de que es una bruja? Un libro que refleja la importancia de no dejarse llevar por las primeras impresiones.

María José grieves at the loss of her mother who died in childbirth. She has difficulty sharing her feelings with her father and the distance between them grows with the appearance of a new woman. Her father gets another job which forces them to move to another neighborhood. The new house is small, but is near an ice cream store owned by Mr. Beto. In the store, María José makes friends with girls and boys her own age, but also meets Mr. Beto and his friends. María José and her friends try to help Mr. Beto when he comes down with a sudden illness.

Explains the basic science of flight, the problems of getting vehicles into the air, different types of engines, and aircraft design, and includes instructions for making aircraft models.