El libro secreto de las niñas

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,...

I Like to Paint Spanish Edition. When you paint a picture, you can choose the best paint to use. What would you use to paint an elephant? What would you paint with pink or purple?

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.

Un travesti ha sido asesinado y su cuerpo aparece con el rostro desfigurado. Quizá otra víctima anónima para el registro de crímenes sin resolver. Pero el comisario veneciano Guido Brunetti, obedeciendo a su infalible instinto, descubre que ese hombre vestido de mujer es Leonardo Mascari, director del Banco de Verona y respetable ciudadano en Venecia. Podría ser un simple caso de doble vida para uno que frecuentaba los circuitos de prostitutas y travestidos, pero los indicios delatan que hay algo más en esta nueva e intrigante historia de Donna Leon. Su personaje, el comisario Brunetti, ...