Los Mariachis

Our solar system is made up of the millions of objects in the sky above us, including the Sun, moon, stars, and planets. This book examines the four planets closest to the Sun, known as the rocky planets. All four planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are described with information about their atmosphere, landscape, orbits, and Fun Facts that give additional information about each of these rocky planets! This book will allow students to use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Apasionada por el universo imaginario de las diferentes culturas africanas en Cuba, Lydia Cabrera inició en París la publicación de una extensa obra de investigación. Contes négres de Cuba (1936), traducidos por Francis de Miomandre, se acogía la poderosa corriente que las culturas africanas habían despertado en Europa de la mano de Leo Frobenius, Blaise Cendrars y Paul Morand, entre otros. Concebidos inicialmente como una serie de relatos para aliviar la enfermedad de su amiga Teresa de la Parra, el libro atrajo inmediatamente la atención de la crítica. De regreso a Cuba en 1939,...

It is the third Monday in January and school is closed. But do you know why? It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Turn the pages of this book to find out what dream Dr. King shared with the world, who Mohandas Gandhi was, how one brave woman helped Martin Luther King Jr. change history. Each book in the Holiday Histories series describes one of America's holidays or special days. Explore the history of each day and learn the real reason why it is important. Discover what special meaning each day might have for you.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...