Conoce a Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / Get to Know Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Spanish Edition)

In the last one hundred years, Earth’s average temperature has risen one full degree. That might not sound like much, but it affects Earth’s oceans, land, plants, and animals. Learn all about global warming, the carbon cycle, the greenhouse effect, and weather and climate with this Spanish science reader that brings the power of science and informational text to students at a level they can understand. This nonfiction book introduces students to new concepts, vocabulary terms, and STEM topics. With detailed images and fascinating sidebars, the leveled text supports students reading at...

Germiniano González Diez nos devuelve una imagen, un trazo, una emoción. A partir de un rastro de milenios nos muestra los rasgos de la vida de nuestros antepasados más remotos, y nos la ofrece en esta obra para que disfrutemos y reflexionemos. Divulgación y emoción recorren a partes iguales las páginas de este magnífico libro escrito por un estudioso apasionado. En su búsqueda, tan personal, Germiniano González no se dedica a catalogar y "reproducir" las pinturas de hace seis mil años, sino que las "reconstruye" a partir de vestigios, las interpreta cuidadosamente; y convierte...

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Martin Luther King, Jr. used peaceful protests to become one of the world's greatest African-American Civil Rights leaders. Readers will learn all about his interesting and inspiring life in this engaging biographical reader that features informational, Spanish-translated text, vibrant images and a timeline of King's life.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...