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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...

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.

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.

Children will be inspired to tell their own stories with this wordless reader, filled with engaging, colorful images that show the typical activities that are part of a young child's day. This book allows for a wonderful shared reading experience for children who do not yet know how to read or who are just beginning to learn. The images tell a story of their own.

This title will take readers throughout the beautiful Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii Island. Readers will learn the park's size, and the important plants, animals, and natural features that make it unique. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.

La novela de un país que despierta. Una mujer de la alta sociedad, muy bella y muy desgraciada. Un publicitario embarcado en un programa radiofónico que busca a personas desaparecidas. Un magnate con buenos contactos políticos dispuesto a consolidar su imperio. Un joven del Norte que rastrea sus orígenes. En la Barcelona de 1960, las trayectorias de todos ellos se cruzan iluminando ambientes contrapuestos. Estaba en el aire es una historia de sentimientos y búsqueda personal, de periodismo e intrigas empresariales, que transcurre en un momento histórico poco abordado por la narrativa...

Children often assume that being fair means that everyone gets the same number of cookies, but at the heart of fairness is consideration, respect, and caring for others. Your readers will encounter real-life situations in which young people figure out how to act fairly. They'll meet Ben and Jane who are playing on the swings at recess while other children wait to use the swings. What is the fair thing to do? Each spread consists of one of these relatable scenarios along with a full-color photograph. Fun, accessible text encourages readers to consider how they treat others as they discover...