Los Mariachis

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book focuses on the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade level. Packed with information and primary source maps, images, and...

A 2014 report by the US Department of Education found that 22 percent of students ages twelve to eighteen had experienced bullying. This cogent narrative provides readers with supportive methods to help a friend who is being bullied and to promote a bully-free learning environment at school. Physical, social, psychological, and verbal bullying are examined, as well as cyberbulling. Readers discover the consequences of bullying both as a target and as a bystander. They also consider ways to intervene in a bullying situation, how to seek adult help, and how to be empowered and recover from...

Examines the nature of inclined planes and wedges, how they can reduce the amount of force necessary to perform work, and ways in which they are used.

En la Biblioteca Nacional de París, un joven estudioso descubre al azar un excéntrico filósofo del siglo xviii, Gaspard Languenhaert, fundador de una escuela efímera, la de la filosofía «egoísta», basada en la idea de que nada existe fuera del individuo, es decir que el «yo» es el creador del mundo y, por tanto, su Dios. Pero los escasos datos que encuentra sobre ese personaje se pierden o se dispersan, como si se tramara una conspiración para borrar su memoria... La secta de los egoístas es una brillante y enigmática novela breve, en la que una investigación bibliográfica...