Descubramos Israel (Looking at Israel)

Texas has had some extraordinary people. This book covers some of them, such as Melinda Gates, astronaut Shannon Walker, and Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot. Age-appropriate text teaches readers about Texas's most important movers and shakers, while historical and contemporary images reinforce the book's key concepts.

Learn multiplication on a fun-filled trip to the supermarket! The displays, shelves, and layout of a local grocery store provide ample opportunities for students to learn multiplication as they are engaged in reading high-interest content. This Spanish book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. The full-color images, math graphs and charts, and practice problems make learning math easy and fun. The table of contents, glossary, and index will further understanding of math and reading...

For those who enjoy unconventional solutions, the author offers a wide range of all-time paradoxes that defy your deductive and calculation skills with impossible logical truths, and helps you to learn how to overcome the traps of false truths.

Una adolescente y su madre brasileña, recientemente viuda, viajan desde Nueva York a Belén, una pequeña ciudad de Brasil, pues la madre ha conseguido un trabajo allí. La muchacha no está convencida de esa estancia, que se puede prolongar más de un año. Allí conocerá a los niños de la noche, pequeños abandonados que viven en la selva, protegidos por un sacerdote, y que tratan de escapar de un hacendado que los explota en sus minas de manera esclavista. La estancia en Belén supondrá para la muchacha una maduración en su visión del mundo, un cambio en la relación con su madre y...