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Introduce students to the importance of taking care of the Earth and protecting our environment. With this Spanish-translated text, readers will learn how they can help the planet. Engaging, primary source documents and images keep students reading as they build their literacy skills and social studies content knowledge.

Planet Earth gives us the things we need to survive. When it changes, it affects us all. But humans also affect Earth. It’s important that we take care of our planet so that it can continue to take care of us. This Spanish nonfiction book explores the subjects of human ecology and climate change in depth, and introduces students to important scientific concepts and vocabulary like desertification, deforestation, carbon dioxide, erosion, drought, fossil fuels, the greenhouse effect, and more. The colorful images, diagrams, sidebars, and text features will keep students connected to the text....

Un juego que atraviesa los siglos sin envejecer: Monika Beisner ha seleccionado las más bellas adivinanzas de las tradiciones de todos los países. Los niños pueden jugar a encontrar en las bellas ilustraciones de Beisner las soluciones ocultas de los acertijos. Las traducciones del poeta José Emilio Pacheco le dan ritmo y encanto a los textos.

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...