Stephen F. Austin: El padre de Texas (The Father of Texas)

Stephen F. Austin grew up to become known as the Father of Texas. Readers can learn about his interesting and incredible life in this appealing biography that has been translated into Spanish and highlights both Austin's life and Texas history. Through vivid images and illustrations, supportive text, an accommodating glossary and index, and fascinating facts, readers will learn about Texas pioneers, the empresario system, Freemasons, and how Austin became such an important figure in Texas history.

This five-act script in Spanish allows students to perform roles at differentiated reading levels to accommodate all students. Students will learn the history of the Battle of the Alamo as they perform roles to increase fluency, comprehension, and social studies content literacy. With a glossary, poem, and song, this resource will help students develop their vocabulary, create a stage presence, speak with meaning, and learn how to interact cooperatively with peers.

Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Texas in the early 1900s. This appealing biography has been translated into Spanish and highlights Johnson's life as he represented Texas in the United States Congress for 24 years and became the 36th President of the United States. Through engaging images, intriguing sidebars and facts, easy to read text, and a supportive glossary and index, readers will learn about interesting topics such as the Higher Education Act, Voting Rights Act, Minority Whip, and the Vietnam War. Readers will be eager to learn more about Johnson's fascinating life as they move from...

En casa de la familia Vilarejo todo ha dado la vuelta, como un calcetín. Han empequeñecido de tal manera que ahora viven, atemorizados, en el escondrijo del ratón Rimsky.

La isla de los corales está gobernada por el virrey Mauro Da Cousta, más conocido como El rey de las calaveras, un malvado personaje que disfruta del miedo que despierta en su pueblo. Una de sus aficiones es robar los botines de los piratas, y para ello cuenta con el apoyo de una banda de secuaces que navegan por el Caribe en busca de tesoros. Todo cambiará el día en que Victor Laxting, un antiguo cocinero que ha sido injustamente tomado por prisionero, logra escapar y se incorpora a la tripulación del Halcón negro, un barco pirata muy particular. Una entretenida historia de piratas y...

Escrito de manera concisa y llana, con ejemplos certeramente escogidos, anécdotas e ilustraciones tomadas de la historia de la cultura europea, acompañados siempre de análisis someros y ocurrentes, este libro enseña cómo la noción de belleza evolucionó desde su culto y fundación, en la antigua Grecia, hasta su patrón actual en que, a veces de modo sutil e irónico, penetra en todos los rincones de la sociedad y la cultura modernas.

Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movements that resulted in the end of the segregated South.