Pueblos y ciudades (Towns and Cities)

Students will learn about the history of hot air balloons and they will also discover the importance of volume when calculating hot air balloon flight. Used in the classroom or at home, this nonfiction Spanish text includes mathematical charts to help students practice calculations. With a glossary, an index, dynamic images, and easy-to-read text, students will build their math and reading skills while they are engaged in reading high-interest content.

Take a trip to the fire station to learn how firefighters use measurement to put out fires! Full of facts, practice problems, and mathematical charts, this Spanish-translated title teaches children more about measurements like volume and perimeter!

Knowing when to say we're sorry means knowing when we've hurt someone, whether it was intentional or not. This is not always easy to do, especially for children. This book presents readers with a variety of relatable scenarios in which young people recognize the need for an apology. Readers follow Louis as he shares an embarrassing secret about Aaron with his other classmates, who make fun of Aaron. Louis feels bad for sharing Aaron's secret. What can he do? Each colorful spread presents a different real-life situation that will instill in readers the importance of knowing when to say, "I'm...

Susana, una niña española que padece anorexia, se traslada una temporada al campo con sus abuelos; allí conoce a Nicoleta, una niña rumana cuyos padres han llegado aquí en busca de trabajo. Dos maneras de ver el mundo y de afrontar la realidad totalmente diferentes que, lejos de provocar enfrentamientos, llegan a entenderse y a ayudarse. En esta ocasión, nuestra joven autora nos ha planteado una situación real como la vida misma que ha tratado con una humanidad y una delicadeza especiales; la amistad y la confianza en los demás se ganan paso poco a poco para solucionar los problemas a ...

"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...

Cuando Linus Daff tuvo que idear una excusa creíble para salvar a un amigo de las iras de su esposa, descubrió que tenía un don especial al que dedicaría el resto de su vida: inventar historias. Hasta él acudieron gentes de las más distintas clases sociales, víctimas de las encorsetadas normas del Londres victoriano, con un mismo fin, recomponer un pasado, montar una nueva vida o adecentar una oscura fortuna. Su gran imaginación, unida a un innato conocimiento de los comportamientos humanos le facilitaron prestigio, fama y dinero. En Cuba inventará su última y más importante...