Un Dia en la vida de un bombero / A Day in the Life of a Fire Fighter

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Discover what it takes to be an Emergency Room doctor in this enlightening, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Readers learn about the hard work and dedication it takes to have a career as an ER doctor and what a typical day is like in the emergency room. From medical school to residency, medical symptoms to diagnosis, children will learn all about the steps it takes to get involved in this profession. This engaging title features vivid photos, helpful charts and diagrams, informational text, a glossary of terms, and an interview with a real life ER doctor to...

This Spanish-translated nonfiction title gives children an in-depth look at what a career as a police officer is like. Readers will learn about various aspects of life as a police officer--from being accepted into the academy to keeping streets safe. Readers will learn what a typical day in the police academy is like as well as a day in the field as an officer. Through helpful charts and diagrams and colorful images in conjunction with informational text and stunning facts, readers discover important aspects of keeping communities safe, including what's inside the patrol car, K-9 units,...

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. En este poético libro de memorias—ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor, finalista del premio de YALSA de no ficción y premio de honor Walter Dean Myers—la aclamada autora Margarita Engle recrea su infancia, que transcurrió a caballo entre dos culturas durante la Guerra Fría. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island...

Una colección de títeres de dedo para jugar a representar la historia de Caperucita, de los tres cerditos o del flautista de Hamelín, entre otros. Los personajes de ocho cuentos clásicos con dos modelos de títeres distintos. Cada álbum contiene material para jugar a representar dos cuentos tradicionales, con tres láminas de títeres por cuento, un teatrillo para montar, y las instrucciones y los guiones de los cuentos.

De familia tradicional, aunque ni rica ni noble, PROPERCIO (ca. 50-ca. 15 a. C.) abandonó su Umbría natal para trasladarse a Roma con la intención de dedicarse a la vida pública, pronto desechada al ser acogido en el círculo de Mecenas y Ovidio a raíz de la popularidad que le deparó su primer libro. Sus ELEGÍAS COMPLETAS, pese a abarcar varios tonos y registros, ostentan no obstante como eje principal el amor por Cintia, en vida y más allá de la muerte, unido a una fuerte imaginación visual y una gran capacidad para expresar las pasiones humanas, cualidades que como señala Hugo...

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...