Viajeros románticos a Oriente

Climb aboard for a journey into the world of trains! In this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title, readers learn about the history of trains, the different uses for them, and the different types and parts including freight cars, box cars, passenger cars, and the caboose. With detailed photos, informative text, and intriguing facts, this book will have readers delighted from cover to cover!

Advise yourself! Jump into Pigeon English and experience the jubilant, infectious voice of Harrison Opoku--a boy awed by the city, obsessed with gummy candy, a friend to everyone he meets. See why he is bo-styles. How being the fastest runner in Year 7 makes him dope-fine. And how crazy things get when Harri and his best friend launch their own investigation into the murder of a classmate and one of the Dell Farm Crew's hutious criminals feels them closing in on him. You'll want this book to last donkey hours, and you'll see why Harri is truly a "hero for our times." Like Room . . . and The...

Nicol�s Cabral's is one of the most singular voices in Latin American literature, and this book demonstrates his hypnotic and out of the ordinary style. The stories ebb from real to unreal, from earthly to fantastical. In addition, there's something rarely found in most contemporary writers: an aversion to the familiar and disdain for common places. La de Nicol�s Cabral es una de las voces m�s singulares de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana. Como en Cat�logo de formas, su primera novela, he aqu� una prosa construida mediante una inflexible depuraci�n y, al mismo tiempo, plural....

Todo lo que siempre quisiste saber sobre la vida amorosa de los animales. Todos los animales, desde las peludas arañas hasta los fornidos delfines, deben aprender a seducir. ¿Cuántas maneras hay para hacerlo? Tantas como hay especies animales. Algunas de sus tácticas son tan familiares como las de los humanos, otras tan extrañas que son difíciles de creer. En una sutil fusión entre álbum ilustrado y libro de divulgación, este volumen muestra el amplio mundo de la seducción animal, desmintiendo falsas creencias y arrojando luz sobre las distintas maneras en las que se expresa el amor ...