Spiders Up Close / Las aranas

The Industrial Revolution was one of the most dramatic eras of all time, filled with fascinating people, strange events, and incredible stories. This period of great change comes into sharp focus through each spread with detailed, accessible language. Each fact is complemented with vivid, carefully-chosen historical images and illustrations, and a caption that adds just a touch more history. Readers are drawn deep into the facts not covered in history textbooks, like working conditions, inventions, failures, and characters, to make this important history lesson fun and engaging.

If you look close enough, a butterfly can grow up right before your eyes. Through the use of accessible text, readers take an exciting look at the journey butterflies make. A picture glossary helps beginning readers strengthen their vocabulary skills, and vibrant, full-color photographs show caterpillars grow to adulthood, taking flight to travel around the world.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

Escribir contraportadas de libros (especialmente las de uno mismo) es muy dif�cil. A continuaci�n lo intentar�: este libro es sobre el miedo. Sobre c�mo funciona, c�mo se adue�a de nosotros y c�mo nos persigue desde la infancia. Si antes les tem�amos a los monstruos debajo de la cama, hoy tambi�n. Pero no todo es tan malo. Todos sentimos miedo sin importar de d�nde somos, cu�ntos a�os tenemos, o si nos gusta o no el chocolate, Yo, por ejemplo, casi me muero de ansiedad (que es miedo en su m�xima potencia) y sobreviv�. No s�lo sobreviv� sino que aprend� que lo ...