Actos Bondadosos (Showing Kindness)

Learn about the different places that people call home--from apartments to cottages and castles to farmhouses. With bright, vivid photos and easy-to-read informational text, this Spanish-translated nonfiction title introduces readers to different cultures' definitions of "home."

¡Hey, sexy lector! Si aún no te animas a convertirte en un viajero vagabundo, no te preocupes: ese miedo es sólo el espíritu del aventurero que vive en ti. Y tu tía Ixpanea te ayudará a transformarlo en deseo. Sólo hay un requisito: las ganas de vivir, ¡y no existe mejor forma de vivir que viajando! Empecemos: en este libro aprenderás a viajar con muy poco dinero, a hacer correctamente una maleta ligera, a reaccionar en momentos de peligro; además, encontrarás una lista de las aplicaciones más útiles a la hora de viajar y toda la información que necesitas para que personalices...

The reflection that is presented in this book is born of direct contact with schools that have a multicultural public, its dialogue with the faculty and pupils of these schools, and of the queries raised by its research in intercultural education.

The Underground Railroad was the massive effort by slaves and free people to secretly bring thousands of blacks to freedom in the North during the 19th century. This thought-provoking book will capture readers’ imaginations and fill them with awe for the brave “conductors” and “passengers” on the Railroad. They’ll learn about the many safe havens, called “depots,” that housed fugitives and the secret passages within them that hid slaves from their pursuers. Information about the American Civil War and the Fugitive Slave Act, biographies of figures vital to the Underground Railroad,...