Avenida América

Follows two children as their family adopts a leopard gecko, offering information on terrariums, handling, diet, moulting, breeding, and other matters necessary to making a good home for a gecko.

A day at the beach is no fun if it's raining. In this illustrated story, the main character and her cousin make the most of a rainy day by staying indoors and doing a special craft project together. Readers follow along as the two girls construct and decorate their very own kites. Accessible text is perfect for beginning readers, and close picture-text correlation fosters reading comprehension skills. After reading about this fun craft project, children will be excited to stay inside the next time it rains.

Hay una multitud de voces diferentes que nos hacen cómplices de sus inquietudes familiares, de sus impulsos homicidas, de hechos heroicos, del amor, de la perturbación. Sin embargo, todos los cuentos de este volumen se inscriben en un estilo narrativo, en una coherencia de forma y contenido que sí busca la originalidad en lo heterogéneo y en lo turbador, pero siempre en un tono menor, sin estridencias. Me repito: como si narrar lo insólito fuera lo cotidiano.

My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.Well, some of her does.A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe. To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone. Told ...