Continentes de la Tierra (Earth’s Continents)

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,...

Ricardo the pack rat has collected so much stuff that his rat hole is full. Includes facts about pack rats.

A dictionary tailored for the Latin American market is an ideal supplement to the middle school curriculum and includes up-to-date definitions, example sentences, synonyms and antonyms, and more. Original.

Rompecabezas filosófico, thriller psicológico, innovadora mezcla de realismo y fantasía, apasionante aventura, éste es un libro que se resiste a ser etiquetado. Explosivo debut literario de Steven Hall, joven autor británico formado como artista visual, la novela se sitúa en la vanguardia más innovadora de las letras inglesas en la actualidad. Tras despertar gran expectación incluso antes de su publicación en inglés �los derechos se vendieron entonces a más de veinte editoriales de todo el mundo—, La memoria del tiburón ha suscitado la respuesta entusiasta de los críticos...