Cómo funcionan los juguetes (How Toys Work)

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

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 historical events. This primary source book focuses on the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad. 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 their grade level. Packed with information and primary source maps, images, and...

Where is your brain exactly? What does it do? Use your brain to read this engaging, Spanish-translated title and learn all about it!

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging, Spanish book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike. They also learn different ways to measure speed and read about energy uses for different vehicles. With greater speed comes greater risk. Readers learn how engineers are always seeking new and better ways to keep people safe as they travel faster and go farther.

Los haikus son una de las formas poéticas más conocidas y más apreciadas en el mundo. Son tan sencillos que se pueden enseñar a los niños, aunque asimismo pueden ser fruto de una vida de estudio y de dedicación. En su exploración evocadora de la vida y de la naturaleza pueden manifestar también un delicioso sentido del humor y de lo lúdico. Estas poesías no solo son expresiones de la delicada sensibilidad japonesa, sino de las intemporales reacciones humanas ante el mundo que nos rodea.

Las reservas de petróleo de la Tierra son limitadas, pero ¿cómo pueden haber desaparecido de la noche a la mañana? ¿Se tratará de una conspiración internacional? Cuando descubreas que el origen del desastre está en el espacio exterior, sientes miedo por primera vez en tu vida. Una misteriosa galaxia más allá de la Vía Láctea está extrayendo el petróleo terrestre a través de pajitas láser. La economía mundial y la vida, tal y como las has conocido hasta ahora, están en peligro si no consigues evitar el desastre.

A land of extremes, from active volcanic peaks to dense rain forests, Guatemala has sustained great civilizations and attracted foreign conquerors. While shadows of its vicious, decades-long civil war still linger, Guatemala's people work toward peace and stability in the face of corruption and impunity. Illuminating photographs, insightful facts, and informative sidebars help the reader discover what it's like to live in today's Guatemala, its ancient beginnings, dramatic landscape, rich culture, resilient people, and more.

It takes different parts to build a house. The floor is built first. Walls need to be added next. Windows and doors, too. Learn about the steps it takes to build a house. Paired to the fiction title We Have a Box.