Cielos, Montanas y Lagos/ Skies, Mountains and Lakes

A Spanish edition of a popular look-for book is filled with translated rhyming riddles in which readers are invited to find hidden objects in a complicated arrangement of colorful objects.

Imagine traveling at half the speed of a jet plane without ever leaving the ground! Students will discover the technology that makes such speeds possible, from special tracks and safety precautions to aerodynamically designed trains. What are the limits to the speed of trains? What imposes those limits? Students also will read about the future of passenger train travel, from flying trains to trains that use huge magnets to levitate inches or centimeters off the track. Some trains safely reach speeds of more than 200 mph!

Un gigantesco depredador ha destruido el embarcadero de Wala wala, y Bizcoché, Dani y Evan se sumergen en las oscuras aguas del Santuario para descubrir qué es. A bordo de Canelo 1, el sumergible que ha inventado el profesor, explorarán las profundas aguas jurásicas. Verán mosasaurios, megalodones, plesiosauros... ¡y al temibe Depredador X! ¿Podrán escapar? ¡Descúbrelo en esta trepidante aventura!

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...