Ser Respetuosos

[English] Explains many different ways that children can be fair and show fairness.[Spanish] A veces es difícil ser justos porque no siempre significa hacer las cosas "por igual". Es tratar a las demás personas como quieres que te traten a ti y tener en cuenta sus sentimientos. ¿Cómo eres una persona justa?

Un joven profesor de arte, llega en mitad del invierno a Venecia, para completar sus estudios. En apenas cuatro días, es testigo del asesinato de un famoso falsificador de arte, se enamora de una mujer excepcional y conoce a personajes tenebrosos unidos por la clandestinidad del delito.

Day of the Dead is a very important holiday in Latin America. It is sometimes incorrectly thought of as a morbid holiday, or a Mexican version of Halloween. While the word "dead" or "muertos" is in the name, this holiday is the way that the people of Mexico honor the lives of ancestors, celebrate the joy of life, and connect with their Mexican heritage. Young readers will enjoy the amazing, colorful photographs of the Day of the Dead celebration, and a supportive glossary helps expand their vocabularies along with their cultural awareness.

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.

Take a trip to New Orleans with a young girl and her family as they attend one of the world's biggest parties: Mardi Gras! Learn all about the history of this fascinating festival as you practice subtraction strategies. This fiction math book combines math and literacy skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, engaging sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning subtraction strategies relevant and fun. Text features include a table of contents, glossary, and index to increase understanding of math and reading...