Cartas Astrales

A 2014 report by the US Department of Education found that 22 percent of students ages twelve to eighteen had experienced bullying. This cogent narrative provides readers with supportive methods to help a friend who is being bullied and to promote a bully-free learning environment at school. Physical, social, psychological, and verbal bullying are examined, as well as cyberbulling. Readers discover the consequences of bullying both as a target and as a bystander. They also consider ways to intervene in a bullying situation, how to seek adult help, and how to be empowered and recover from...

Abby, Brit, Christine y Sasha están hartas. La preparatoria Hazelton nunca tiene suficientes tampones. Ni toallas. Ni adultos dispuestos a escuchar. Cansadas de una administración que antepone el futbol americano a la salud femenina, las chicas se enfrentan a un mundo que se encoge de hombros —o peor, se retuerce—, ante la posibilidad de una revolución menstrual. Este grupo de amigas se une para lograr un cambio. No es una tarea sencilla, especialmente mientras lidian con otros problemas como la clase de Trigonometría, amores no correspondidos o la competitividad del equipo de...

"Despega hacia el espacio en esta aventura interactiva basada en los alunizajes del Apollo. Desde el despegue del cohete hasta el regreso a la Tierra, este libro de no ficción con solapas y lengüetas despertará la curiosidad de los más intrépidos. ¡Un gran mundo puede ser pequenño!"--Casadellibro

Mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, Junior Edition, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer onginal mnemonic rimes appropriate in subject matter and skill level for junior high and high school students to help them acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary. Included are mnemonic jingles for several hundred of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words. Each jingle contains both the sound of the Spanish word and its English meaning. The authors have also included a general pronunciation guide to Spanish vowels and...