Anne Frank

The world around us is more powerful than we know. Discover how earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and more have affected people and places around the world in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through informational text, vivid images, and stunning facts and charts, readers will learn about disasters such as The Great Potato Famine, Hurricane Katrina, Mount St. Helens, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as well as epidemics and pandemics such as the bubonic plague and swine flu.

Young readers will be inspired by this biography about the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. The appealing images, helpful text, and supportive timeline, glossary, table of contents, and index combine to create an engaging experience as readers learn about one of the greatest female pilots of all time. This book has been translated into Spanish.

Anne Frank's diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world. Readers will learn about Anne's life as she went into hiding from the Nazi Party in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through vibrant images, informational text, timelines, and a glossary of terms, readers will discover the hardships Anne and her family went through in order to avoid being sent to a concentration camp. This inspiring biography enables children to look up to Anne and find hope in every situation, just as she did. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Esta noche la libertad relata la caída del imperio británico en La India en 1947 y el nacimiento de La India y de Paquistán, siguiendo los pasos del último Virrey de la India, Lord Mountbatten y de Mahatma Ghandi. El libro concluye con el asesinato de éste ultimo. Para escribir Esta noche la libertad, Dominique Lapierre y Larry Collins necesitaron cuatro años de esfuerzos, recorrieron 250.000 kilómetros utilizando todos los medios de locomoción imaginables, incluido el caballo y el elefante y recopilaron miles de páginas de archivo, de fotografías y de documentos inéditos.

During the American Civil War, the United States was on the brink of falling apart irrevocably. As states seceded and brother turned against brother, hope for reconciliation was dim. This conflict, an essential topic of the social studies curriculum, is skillfully presented from its origins in the Southern slave-trade economy to bloody battles and, later, Reconstruction. Striking photographs and artwork of integral events and people will resonate with readers, while interesting sidebar information gives them more to reflect on about this terrible war and the lessons it taught us.

Ernesto es un niño de diez años que vive con su abuela desde que su madre murió y su padre desapareciera. Su existencia no tiene nada de emocionante, hasta que Victoire llega a su clase y se fija en él. ¿Hasta qué punto puede cambiar la vida en un instante? Una historia que habla de las relaciones familiares y la superación de dificultades.

"En este libro podrás conocer al niño Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, quien te conducirá por su Gran Tenochtitlan, ciudad de los aztecas. Este futuro implacable emperador te platicará acerca de su linaje y de su padre, Axayácatl, el sexto gobernante de los tenochcas; de su nacimiento en el calpulli; del mismo origen de los aztecas y la creación de su fastuosa ciudad; de sus instrumentos musicales preferidos, y su ingreso al Calmecac, entre otras muchas actividades que seguramente te agradarán como a este pequeño personaje."--Page 4 of cover.