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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 explores California’s unique geography: the coastal region, the Central Valley, the mountain region, and the desert region. 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...

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging, Spanish book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike. They also learn different ways to measure speed and read about energy uses for different vehicles. With greater speed comes greater risk. Readers learn how engineers are always seeking new and better ways to keep people safe as they travel faster and go farther.

This book's attractive combination of excellent color photographs and detailed illustrations will captivate young readers and hold their attention as they learn all about the animal kingdom. The child-friendly text highlights details that children are especially interested in to provide a thorough introduction to the major animal and insect groups. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

Introduces the concepts of short and tall, comparing some of the world's shortest and tallest animals.

María Hernández Martí nació en 1970. Licenciada en Geografía e Historia en la Universidad de Las Palmas en 1994, obtuvo más tarde el título de especialista en Ordenación del Territorio y Medio Ambiente en la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, y el Máster de Periodismo El País en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.Entre 1999 y 2004 ejerció como periodista en El País (en Málaga como redactora y en Córdoba como corresponsal). Fue responsable de comunicación de la Delegación de Asuntos Sociales de la Junta de Andalucía en Córdoba. Escribió también para medios locales,...

Sadako Sasaki tenía tan sólo doce años cuando murió. Una terrible bomba atómica fue lanzada sobre su ciudad, Hiroshima, en Japón, cuando ella contaba dos años de edad. Diez años más tarde, enfermó de la leucemia como resultado de la radicación de aquella bomba. La autora ha querido destacar en Sadako su gran espíritu y valentía a la hora de afrontar el futuro que ella sabía que le esperaba.