Agatha Christie

Take a trip to New Orleans with a young girl and her family as they attend one of the world's biggest parties: Mardi Gras! Learn all about the history of this fascinating festival as you practice subtraction strategies. This fiction math book combines math and literacy skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, engaging sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning subtraction strategies relevant and fun. Text features include a table of contents, glossary, and index to increase understanding of math and reading...

Field trips are important and exciting days for young people. It gets them out of the classroom where they can learn in a different environment. This title shows all the fun and educational things kids can see and learn about on a field trip to the zoo. Title is complete with colorful photos that support the simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.

In 1862, the American Civil War was underway, actively tearing the United States apart. At the start of the war, President Abraham Lincoln's main goal was preserving the Union, but he was now ready to make a stand on slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was one of the most important documents of its time, but its contents can be confusing. This volume gives readers context for the proclamation, as well as explains what it says and its results, in uncomplicated language appropriate for those reading below level and those looking for a review of this subject.

La pasión amorosa, auténtico motor de gran parte de la mejor literatura, aparece en El desierto del amor como objeto de análisis en sus aspectos más oscuros. A partir de Maria Cross, la protagonista de esta novela que atraviesa un sinfín de miserias morales, Mauriac analiza los conflictos que habitan en el interior de los humanos, su lucha constante contra el mal, desde una particular entonación romántica.El desierto del amor es una novela turbadora, donde Mauriac reconstruye con precisión quirúrgica la psique de tres personajes atrapados por la soledad, la degradación de un mundo...