Las estrellas (Stars)

Learn all about planet Earth in this engaging, colorful title! Earth is our home. It is a big, beautiful place that orbits the sun. What else is there to know about Earth? Read this Spanish-translated book to find out!

The Earth is a remarkable place! In the universe, Earth is the only place that we know for sure has life and non-life. Learn all about interdependence in ecosystems with this Spanish science reader that brings the power of science and informational text to students at a level they can understand. Introduce students to STEM topics and new vocabulary terms like oxygen cycle, stimuli, homeostasis, and micro-organism with this nonfiction book that is aligned to state and national standards. The leveled text supports students reading at above-, below-, and on-grade level. The fun lab activity...

Death Valley is one of the hottest and driest deserts of the world! Readers are taken on an adventure through Death Valley to learn about the plants and animals that survive in this dry, hot desert landscape in this engaging, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Featuring vivid photographs, informational text, and riveting facts about desert ecology, readers will be fascinated from beginning to end!

Learn How Dams And Levees Are Built As Well As The Effects They Have On River Systems In A Region, And Places Downstream.

Essays by well-known climbers accompany a range of superb color landscape photographs that echo the great traditions of the Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club large format books of the 1970s.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.

Un elefante llega a una isla de monos. Éstos se alarman, pues, por desconocido, lo juzgan de peligroso, El elefante intenta establecer amables relaciones, pero el miedo hace que los monos le reciban con muy malos modos. Finalmente, un accidente convierte en héroe a nuestro protagonista y los monos reconocen su error. Sólo entonces le preguntan quién es. Y es que el desconocimiento lleva a juzgar mal a los demás, sobre todo si sólo se tienen en cuenta las apariencias. El argumento fundamental del libro está tratado con mucho humor para suavizar con acierto la dureza de un tema como es...