Puentes hechos de pasto

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 history of California’s Native American tribes: the Tongva, Yokuts, Yana, and Yahi. 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...

This nonfiction book explores the history, culture, customs, and beliefs of California's American Indian tribes including the Chumash, Tongva, Hupa, Yokuts, Quechan, and Coso tribes. Detailed primary source images in conjunction with Spanish text provide 3rd grade students with an inviting reading and learning experience as they build their social studies knowledge. This book includes basic informational text features including a glossary, an index, table of contents, and reader's guide. Students will be intrigued by Native American history with this fascinating nonfiction Spanish book.

"Roberto has to watch his family's sheep, but he finds it boring. He tries to get what he wants by crying wolf. But what happens when there is real danger?"--

Travel from the Egyptian pyramids, to the canals of Venice, to a space station, all within a single book! Each colorful page is filled with logic and observation games for curious minds. An answer key is included at the end of the book.

A young boy eagerly awaits the birth of his brother or sister, while imagining that the baby is in a house inside his mother.

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. En este poético libro de memorias—ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor, finalista del premio de YALSA de no ficción y premio de honor Walter Dean Myers—la aclamada autora Margarita Engle recrea su infancia, que transcurrió a caballo entre dos culturas durante la Guerra Fría. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island...

Más de 70.000 mujeres cada año son engañadas y sometidas a esclavitud sexual sólo en Europa. Este es un dato extraído de los periódicos, pero en esta novela todas esas mujeres se resumen en Polina, una adolescente nacida en Moldavia cuyas ilusiones comienzan a desmoronarse en un tétrico sótano de Estambul. Muy lejos de los sollozos de la pequeña, la historia comienza con la desaparición de los cinco gatos de la viuda Hergueta en un barrio residencial de la periferia de Madrid. Los vecinos rusos resultan los primeros sospechosos, ya que su actitud es huraña y misteriosa. Gracias a...