César

Born in 1927 in Yuma, Arizona, César Chavez lived the hard-scrabble life of a migrant worker during the Depression. Although his mother wanted him to get an education, César left school after eighth grade to work. He grew to be a charismatic leader and founded the National Farm Workers Association, an organization that fought for basic rights for farm workers. In powerful poems and dramatic stylized illustrations, Carmen T. Bernier-Grand and David Díaz pay tribute to Chavez's legacy helping migrant workers improve their lives by doing things by themselves for themselves.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Have you ever heard of The Excited Burro or Ringel Ringel? These are games that children play in other countries. Children play different games in different parts of the world, but they all have fun! Vibrant photos, diagrams, maps, informational text, and interesting facts invite readers to learn the way children around the world play the same games as they do in this delightful, Spanish-translated nonfiction title.

Meet Cole Sprouse! In this engaging title, readers will follow Sprouse's career from his early roles in Grace Under Fire, Big Daddy, The Suite Life with Jack and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, and The Suite Life Movie with brother Dylan to solo work on the hit series Friends and Riverdale. His charitable work with the Ride a Wave Foundation is also featured. Table of contents, map, "Did You Know" fact boxes, a "Snapshot" graphic with vital information, glossary, and index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo...

De forma suave, sin estridencias, con sensibilidad, mimo y fino sentido del humor, Ibrahim Aslán (una figura central de la ficción egipcia contemporánea) narra, en esta obra publicada en Egipto en 1992, la vida cotidiana de una oficina de Correos de El Cairo durante el turno de noche a través de sucesivas estampas: los empleados (entre ellos el narrador, en el que podemos ver un reflejo del propio autor), su labor repetida diariamente, la mujer que envía un telegrama al hombre al que ya no ama, la llamada a la oración, el té ardiendo, la correspondencia que circula de Oriente a...

¡Hola! Soy Franco Masini y estoy fe-liz de poder contarles aquí, en este libro, mi historia. Si bien sé que me queda mucho por vivir, quiero compar-tir con ustedes este momento único y especial para todos los que estuvieron a mi lado desde el principio.Les voy a contar mis vivencias y gus-tos, cómo son mis días, mis personas queridas y mis objetos y lugares preferidos.