National Geographic Readers: Los Pandas

Recounts the life of Cuban violinist Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas, a black child who was born free and began his career as a musical prodigy to become a noted concert musician in Paris, while slavery still existed on the island.

Exploración espacial is one book in the Spanish-language Gran Atlas de la Ciencia series that covers today's most popular science topics, from digital TV to microchips to touchscreens and beyond. Perennial subjects in earth science, life science, and physical science are all explored in detail. Amazing graphics--more than 1,000 per title--combined with concise summaries help students understand complex subjects. Correlated to the science curriculum in grades 5-9, each title also contains a glossary with full definitions for vocabulary.

Antonio Machado es uno de los poetas más importantes que ha tenido nuestro país. Leonor, su esposa y su musa, era para él al alegría, la vida, la felicidad. Pero también la sabiduría. No la de los libros o las escuelas, sino la de las cosas pequeñas, esas cosas que Antonio convirtió en poemas. Poemas tan hermosos que hoy en día, verso a verso, seguimos recordando. Carmen Posadas nos acerca a Machado en el setenta aniversario de la muerte del poeta, con un texto emotivo que nos muestra que sin amor no hay vida, y tampoco poesía.

When we look up at the night sky you can see millions of stars, but what do you think we could see in space if we left Earth? If we could hop into a special ship and blast off, traveling billions of miles away from Earth, we’d see the Milky Way galaxy. In this book, readers take an incredible journey through that galaxy, exploring the universe and learning how it was formed and what will one day happen to these enormous groups of stars. From mysterious dark matter to the black holes at the center of galaxies, readers will also dive into the mysteries of the universe scientists have spent...