¡Capturas peligrosas! Pescadores de alta mar (Dangerous Catch! Deep Sea Fishers)

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into what life was like during Westward Expansion. Students will learn about the reasons people headed west, the gold rush, the Homestead Act, Manifest Destiny, the Oregon Trail, and more. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at ...

800x600 Boys can be anything they want to be! This timely book joins and expands the gender-role conversation and gives middle-grade boys a welcome alternative message: that masculinity can mean many things. You won't find any stories of slaying dragons or saving princesses here. In Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, author Ben Brooks-with the help of Quinton Wintor's striking full-color illustrations-offers a welcome alternative narrative: one that celebrates introverts and innovators, sensitivity and resilience, individuality and expression. It's an accessible compilation of 75...

«Conviene que se vaya diciendo», anotaba José-Carlos Mainer hace unos años, y lo reitera ahora en el prólogo a esta edición: «Todos coinciden en que García Montero es un poeta tocado por la rara gracia del talento expresivo y la todavía menos frecuente del talento emocional. Pero hay que añadir que, en una época poética muy poblada de nombres, es uno de los pocos destinados a la letra grande de la historia de la literatura.» Luis García Montero reúne en este volumen veinticinco años de poeta. Ordenados y en edición definitiva, figuran en esta Poesía (1980-2005) sus ocho...

Pido disculpas a la lectoría, si es que acaso la tengo, por el atrevimiento del título, ya que debe ser ella, y no yo, quien califique la buena o mala calidad de mis poemas. He sido juez y parte en esta selección. Cada vez que escribo poesía, o mejor dicho, sirvo de vehículo para que ésta cabalgue cual brioso potro por los prados de los cuatro puntos cardinales, mi memoria, añeja ya de tantos años encima, se siente aliviada de su peso, pues se ha librado de un huésped que reclamaba su libertad. No creo que como poeta haya creado nada, sólo he liberado poemas en prosa y verso que...

Computer science is all around us, at school, at home, and in the community. This book gives readers the essential tools they need to understand the computer science concept of testing. Brilliant color photographs and accessible text will engage readers and allow them to connect deeply with the concept. The computer science topic is paired with an age-appropriate curricular topic to deepen readers’ learning experience and show how testing works in the real world. In this book, a narrator freezes water to make ice and makes sure his process worked. This nonfiction title is paired with the...