Guatemala

Take a trip to the Everglades as you practice addition! About one million people visit Everglades National Park every year to see the unique animals, reptiles, birds, and fish that call this unique place home. Students will practice addition within 100 while engaged in reading about the Everglades. This nonfiction math book combines math and literacy skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, intriguing sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning math concepts relevant and fun. Text features include a table of...

Provides a basic introduction to caves, including geographical information and plant and animal life.

In this biographical book, young readers will learn about the brave life of Harriet Tubman. Readers will discover how Tubman bravely escaped from her life as a slave to cross the Mason-Dixon line into freedom and how she helped hundreds of other slaves into freedom through the Underground Railroad with the help of abolitionists. The vivid images, stunning facts, and supportive text work in conjunction with the helpful glossary, index, and timeline of Tubman's life to give readers an engaging experience as they move from cover to cover. This book has been translated into Spanish.

En este breve libro de relatos, la autora indaga una vez más en el tema del erotismo y el realismo sucio. Nos presenta un conjunto de relatos entre los que destacan “Le Malheur (la desgracia de no poder estar solo)”, y “El chofer”, en los que aparecen personajes femeninos escindidos en la soledad, el deseo sexual no satisfecho y en relaciones complejas, pero siempre con una válvula de escape en la lectura y la reflexión. De esta manera, Ollé nos muestra las grietas de la sociedad contemporánea en las que la mujer se encuentra atrapada. Hay también guiños fantásticos y...