The Catcher

HIGH-INTEREST, LOW-LEVEL: Reluctant readers will be engaged from beginning to end as they explore the responsibilities and skills of the soccer goalie in this 32-page nonfiction book. Side-by-side English and Spanish text and vivid, exciting photos show readers what it takes to fill this key position in soccer. SPORTS BOOK FOR KIDS: Soccer goalies are their team's last line of defense. These players must be quick on their feet to stop the other team from scoring a goal. Learn what soccer goalies do to help their team to victory! INCLUDES: Readers will be hooked from beginning to end with...

La teoría de conjuntos es una rama de las matemáticas, y cuya dedicación de este capítulo, es gracias al matemático, Ferdinand Ludwing Philipp Cantor, quien es considerado el padre de la Teoría de Conjuntos, debido a ello, es que, en el año 1874, salió su primer trabajo revolucionario, con respecto a la teoría de conjuntos.

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory, and pain, of being Latino American. Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such...

Profiles Phoebe Ann Moses, the star sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show under the name Annie Oakley, who began shooting to help feed her family after her father's death.

Estamos ante una de esas obras que ocurren raramente en las que la poesía y la vida pergeñan una intrigante apuesta: la de una autora que sin llegar a los veinte años publica un libro cuya madurez literaria aplastaría a cualquier lector. Un poemario con un interesante tono personal donde el yo poético plantea un diálogo de cuestionamiento que pone de relieve la conflictiva construcción de una identidad, y la dudosa legitimidad de esa aspiración. Algo que queda claramente reflejado en poemas como “Mi otro yo”, “Lo que quiero ser y lo que soy distan mucho de parecerse”, “La...