La búsqueda de la velocidad: Los vehículos (The Quest for Speed: Vehicles) (Spanish Version)

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!

Learn the secrets to artful cupcakes, oven-fresh bread, and other delicious baked goods in this delightful nonfiction title. Readers will learn how mathematics helps bakers measure their ingredients to make tasteful treats. Featuring vibrant images and charts, informative text, and fun, intriguing facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book will leave children fascinated by all the details that go into baking their favorite treats--like doughnuts and cookies! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Readers won't have to disassemble their favorite toys to discover what makes them work. This book explores electric, magnetic, and motion-powered toys from design to function. It introduces readers to the six simple machines and explains how they use force and motion to do work. Not every toy is a technological marvel. Readers learn about time-honored favorites including the rocking horse, Slinky, and rattles.

"En este libro te proponemos un recorrido que no te va a dejar indiferente. Porque no el sólo un itinerario por distintos países del mundo, sino que te invita a adentrarte en la escencia del ser humano...,"--Page [4] of cover.

¡Los gorilas son los primates ma ́s grandes del mundo! Estos amables mami ́feros deambulan por la selva,viven en grupos grandes y buscan frutas y brotes de bambu ́ para alimentarse. Sube a los a ́rboles y conoce a estos poderosos y amigables primates.

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...

Rights are things that make life fair for everyone. But sometimes people are treated unfairly. When this happens, we have to stand up for what is right. We have to become civil rights champions! This Spanish nonfiction book will teach students about civil rights, and introduces them to new vocabulary terms and concepts. Important text features include a glossary, index, and table of contents to engage students in reading as they develop their comprehension, vocabulary, and literacy skills. The Reader's Guide and culminating activity require students to connect back to the text as they develop ...