Francisca Alvarez

Cynthia Ann Parkers family moved to Central Texas when she was about nine years old. A year later, a large force of Comanche warriors attacked Fort Parker and seized Cynthia Ann and four other captives. The other four were eventually released, but she lived among the Indians for 25 years, immersed in the Comanche way of life. Though given a number of opportunities to go back to her white family, she always chose her life with the Comanche, choosing instead to stay with her husband and children. She eventually returned to white society as an adult.

Find out how tools have helped people hunt, build, and make life easier in this engaging, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. With colorful images, timelines, charts, a glossary to assist with vocabulary improvement, and an index, children will learn how tools throughout time have made such an important impact on life as we know it! Featured eras include the Stone Age and the Industrial Revolution.

"Este libro gigante con paginas desplegables y atractivas fotografias hara que tu hijo desarrolle su destreza manual y aprenda sobre todo tipo de maquinas"--From publisher's description.

MATHEMATICAL WORKSHOP - Offers materials with which the pupil incorporates Mathematics to the knowledge of real life. The game-like character of the activities makes of them a source of interest and pleasure for the students. Conceptual contents, procedural ways and attitudes, attending to diversity; students' evaluation; materials and educational activities are developed.

¿Por qué hay que masticar con la boca cerrada?. Descubre cómo los buenos modales convierten las horas de las comidas en momentos agradables para todos.