¿Qué significa ser carpintero? (What's It Really Like to Be a Carpenter?)

We use machines every day, but most of us don't understand how they work. When they break down, most of us have no idea how to fix them. Mechanics are the masters of machines. Readers learn that mechanics work on vehicles, including cars, boats, and buses. They use special tools to take them apart and fix what's wrong, and they use their experience and technology to diagnose problems. They often work long hours, sometimes in bad weather, to get us where we need to go. Your readers will see that mechanics keep our world moving and growing.

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...

Martina se dispone a dormir, pero ni se imagina que no será una noche cualquiera... En su habitación aparece Onira, una señora mágica, aunque un tanto estrafalaria, quien vela para que los peques tengan sueños bonitos. Y, naturalmente, no está sola, no podría con todo ese importante trabajo: cuenta con unos ayudantes algo especiales. Claro que no siempre las cosas salen como quiere Onira, pero eso ya lo veréis... Un obra de teatro ideal para leer en casa o para trabajar en clase, donde, a través de sus divertidos personajes y pegadizas canciones, compartir mensajes de amistad,...

For use in schools and libraries only. Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Young readers will survey the discovery of the American colonies through the eyes of explorers, soldiers, and civilians.