Que Es Un Acuerdo? (What Is Compromise?)

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.

In the United States, the ability to take informed action is becoming increasingly necessary, and difficult. This book delves into the importance of being informed and explains how not all sources of information are equal. Readers are introduced to the scientific method as a way of testing information for credibility. Students will also learn how to turn credible information into action by forming groups, protesting, contacting elected representatives, and possibly even running for office themselves someday.

Agosto de 2001. Un profesor argentino llega a una universidad en el sur de los Estados Unidos para dar un curso de literatura en español. Todo parece perfecto y en su primera clase descubre algo prohibido pero irresistible: una de sus alumnas, Jennifer, una chica deslumbrante y ambigua, con la que inicia una serie de encuentros sexuales cada vez más arriesgados, en medio del secreto y el disimulo. Ninguno de los dos sabe que ese breve período juntos cambiará sus vidas para siempre y que un acontecimiento brutal acabará por trastocar su mundo de la manera más inesperada. Intensamente...

This is a hopeful conservation story about an endangered family of Mexican gray wolves who live in a sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest and their journey that leads to their successful release to the wild in Mexico. This nonfiction story, illustrated with color photography, follows the lives of a Mexican gray wolf family, known as lobos, with pups born at a sanctuary in Washington State near Mount Rainier, to their release into the wild in Mexico. Through this hopeful and engaging story of conservation, kids learn about wolves--their characteristics and behavior--and the challenge of...

"Lady Isabel Pelham y Gerard Faulkner, marqués de Grayson, son la pareja más escandalosa de todo Londres. Tienen en común una lujuria desmedida, un gran ingenio, una provocativa reputación en entredicho y, lo más importante, ninguna intención de enamorarse el uno del otro, algo con lo que tirarían por la borda su matrimonio de conveniencia. Por nada del mundo romperían esa farsa ... hasta que el destino aparta a Gerard del lado de Isabel. Cuatro años más tarde, el marqués de Grayson regresa a casa. Isabel se encuentra con que el pícaro joven se ha convertido en un hombre poderoso...

Discusses the difference between secrets that are fun to keep and those that make people unhappy, and encourages youngsters to confide in their parents or another trusted adult such painful matters as bullying or improper touching.