El Sol (The Sun)

This book describes dump trucks called off-highway trucks, explaining their operating equipment and dumping beds, fuel, and jobs.

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

Which animals and plants can survive in a dry desert environment? Readers learn about the living things that make up desert food chains, including cacti, snakes, and scorpions. Colorful photographs of desert life make readers feel like they’re exploring new parts of this habitat with each turn of the page. Fact boxes provide additional information about the creatures that make up desert food chains, and a detailed food web shows how these food chains all come together. The desert is an extreme habitat, and readers will enjoy learning about the extreme plants and animals that live there.

George Washington Gómez narra la historia de un joven que crece en Jonesville on the River (ciudad ficticia que representa la ciudad de Brownsville) a principios del Siglo XX. La obra versa del conflicto de identidad, tal y como refleja en el título la combinación de un nombre anglo y un apellido hispano, que el joven protagonista sufre al crecer en un ambiente anglo-texano.