Mujeres en los deportes (Women in Sports)

Even the smallest tide pools are actually entire ecosystems! The creatures that call a tide pool home are connected through food chains that represent the passing of energy from one living thing to another. Readers discover how these unique food chains all come together as they view a helpful tide pool food web. Fun fact boxes accompany informative text about life in a tide pool. Detailed photographs of tide pool ecosystems introduce readers to a variety of cool creatures.

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.

Explains the basic science of flight, the problems of getting vehicles into the air, different types of engines, and aircraft design, and includes instructions for making aircraft models.

Introduces the holiday Cinco de Mayo and describes how it is celebrated in Mexico and in the United States.

El siglo XIX definió, tal vez, lo que más tarde sería el México contemporáneo. En esta época, no solo se desarrollaron las más importantes batallas, tanto militares como ideológicas, sino que también surgieron modos de hacer, pensar y sentir que hoy siguen vigentes. Sumérgete en las páginas de este libro y descubre las diferencias y similitudes de la vida de entonces con lo que sucede en nuestros tiempos. Te sorprenderás de aquello que desde hace mucho es cosa de todos los días.