A la vanguardia: Adelantos en tecnología (The Cutting Edge: Breakthroughs in Technology) 6-Pack

Even as the world changes, skilled labor will always be needed. There's nothing quite like the ability to create things with your skills and your own hands. Carpenters use their skills to build things we use every day, including items such as furniture, buildings, and bridges. They read building plans, choose materials, design, and create. This book teaches kids that to become a carpenter, you have to use a lot more than a hammer and nails; you need your brain too. Photographs and diagrams enable readers to make key connections with the text.

Children often assume that being fair means that everyone gets the same number of cookies, but at the heart of fairness is consideration, respect, and caring for others. Your readers will encounter real-life situations in which young people figure out how to act fairly. They'll meet Ben and Jane who are playing on the swings at recess while other children wait to use the swings. What is the fair thing to do? Each spread consists of one of these relatable scenarios along with a full-color photograph. Fun, accessible text encourages readers to consider how they treat others as they discover...

En la Biblioteca Nacional de París, un joven estudioso descubre al azar un excéntrico filósofo del siglo xviii, Gaspard Languenhaert, fundador de una escuela efímera, la de la filosofía «egoísta», basada en la idea de que nada existe fuera del individuo, es decir que el «yo» es el creador del mundo y, por tanto, su Dios. Pero los escasos datos que encuentra sobre ese personaje se pierden o se dispersan, como si se tramara una conspiración para borrar su memoria... La secta de los egoístas es una brillante y enigmática novela breve, en la que una investigación bibliográfica...

Una edición escolar -con texto íntegro y nuevas ilustraciones- de la segunda entrega de las aventuras del capitán Alatriste. Una mujer ha aparecido estrangulada frente a la iglesia de San Ginés. El enigma se complica con los sucesos misteriosos que ocurren tras las paredes del convento, cuando Alatriste es contratado para rescatar de allí a una joven novicia.