Huracán (Hurricane)

What has a striped tail, red fur, and long, white whiskers? If you guessed a red panda, you're right! This book introduces early readers to a mystery animal by describing its features, one by one, using short simple sentences and eye-popping full-color photos. At the end of the book, the secret animal is revealed across a colorful, two-page spread. Young children will love showing off their beginning reading skills as they learn about this dazzling collection of wild and wonderful zoo animals--one clue at a time! Fast facts and habitat maps at the end of the book provide children with key...

Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.

★“Fascinating...An appealing resource sure to spark an interest in biomimicry, from casual readers to budding scientists. Recommended for all libraries.”—School Library Journal, starred review Did you know that lamps can be powered by glowing bacteria instead of electricity? That gloves designed like gecko feet let people climb straight up glass walls? Or that kids are finding ways to make compostable plastic out of banana peels? Biomimicry, the scientific term for when we learn from and copy nature, is a revolutionary way to look to nature for answers to environmental problems such...

La primera obra de Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell —sin duda una de las novelas más brillantes y originales de los últimos años—, se tradujo a treinta y dos idiomas y se convirtió en un éxito de alcance internacional. Premiada, y generosamente elogiada por los críticos, supuso la creación de un mundo fantástico, coherente hasta los mínimos detalles, donde la magia y la historia se entrelazaban de manera prodigiosa. Tres años después, sin apartarse de ese universo imaginario que se ha convertido en su sello de identidad, los ocho relatos que componen este...

Dirigido a estudientes de ESO y Bachillerato, este manual ofrece modelos de comentario de texto que se basan en tres principios: lectura comprensiva, redacción correcta y debate.