¿Qué significa ser programador? (What's It Really Like to Be a Coder?)

Even as the world changes, skilled labor will always be needed. There's nothing quite like the ability to create things with your skills and your own hands. Carpenters use their skills to build things we use every day, including items such as furniture, buildings, and bridges. They read building plans, choose materials, design, and create. This book teaches kids that to become a carpenter, you have to use a lot more than a hammer and nails; you need your brain too. Photographs and diagrams enable readers to make key connections with the text.

If it were possible to shrink down and take a tour of a human body, would you want to go? Readers will get that chance when they explore the body of a guy named Marty, who will let them check out the body systems that keep his heart beating and his body moving every day. With the help of a tiny ship that goes through his ears and all the way through his digestive system, readers will learn exactly what they are made of with this great book.

Visiting Tulum National Park is like going back in time. The Maya lived there long ago. Learn addition as you count the things they left behind. This Spanish math book combines math and reading skills and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject-area content. The dynamic images, detailed sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning addition easy and fun. Text features include a table of contents, a glossary, an index, and captions to build vocabulary and increase understanding of math and reading concepts. An in-depth problem-solving section provides...

A thoughtful discussion of violence in schools, complete with examples of incidents and suggestions for coping.

Think there's just one fairy tale with a girl who meets danger in disguise? Think again! Cultures all around the world have their own Little Red Riding Hood stories. Visit Germany, Italy, and Taiwan, and find out whose "sick grandmother" is a tiger, and who is saved not by a "kind hunter" but by a talking river. Fully translated Spanish text.

Un hombre se despierta en una habitación desconocida y poco a poco se da cuenta de que se encuentra en una minúscula y desnuda celda. Su memoria comienza entonces a funcionar de forma caótica y, a través de los recuerdos que evoca, podemos entender que se trata de un corrupto que no parece arrepentirse de sus hechos. El perfil de este hombre de pasado criminal se dibuja con trazo claro por la autora, Daría Rolland Pérez, que retrata las contradicciones de la condición humana a través de personajes con matices y una trama de gran riqueza expresiva.