Wilma Rudolph

This Spanish-translated biography introduces readers to Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Featuring lively images and inspirational text in conjunction with a helpful glossary, index, and timeline of Robinson's life, this title will engage readers as they read about Jackie's life as a college athlete, his start in the Negro League, his stand against segregation, and how he became the first person to ever get named Rookie of the Year. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Young readers will learn the ways that César Chávez fought to protect the rights and lives of migrant workers in this inspiring Spanish-translated biography that gives history behind protests and developments of unions that Chávez led. Vivid images and an interesting timeline of Chávez's life work in conjunction with supportive text and a helpful glossary, table of contents, and index to engage readers from cover to cover.

The Pledge of Allegiance: Poem of Patriotism is a story of some students who are struggling with the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. Even though they say it everyday, they are not quite sure what they are saying. With the help of their teachers and parents, the children soon learn what the pledge means and what it symbolizes about freedom in America. 20pp.

This book introduces the reader to the nighttime world of the rat, including its habitat, activities, diet, and the unique things that it does.

La solidaridad y la amistad serán las únicas fuerzas capaces de derrotar a los tres gordinflones, glotones sin corazón que oprimen a sus súbditos desde un magnífico palacio, custodiados por el ejército y rodeados de una corte de aduladores. Los tres gordinflones que narra las inverosímiles peripecias de un sabio, un acróbata, una niña y un armero , con sus ya incontables ediciones, se convirtió en el mayor éxito de Yuri Olesha y es hoy un clásico de la literatura infantil soviética de nuestro siglo.

La polémica en torno a la reforma de la Administración local plantea una reflexión crítica sobre la constitucionalidad de los nuevos límites de la autonomía local y el actual control sobre los municipios. Su planteamiento, no obstante, en términos de calidad democrática diseña un modelo de Gobernanza local propulsor de derechos de la ciudadanía y nuevos principios de transparencia, buen gobierno, participación y gobierno abierto, con la introducción de deberes y responsabilidades inéditas en la esfera municipal. Sin embargo, este estudio aborda el reverso de las nuevas tendencias ...

In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.