Una ciudad que se hunde: Read-Along eBook

This nonfiction book explores the history, culture, customs, and beliefs of California's American Indian tribes including the Chumash, Tongva, Hupa, Yokuts, Quechan, and Coso tribes. Detailed primary source images in conjunction with Spanish text provide 3rd grade students with an inviting reading and learning experience as they build their social studies knowledge. This book includes basic informational text features including a glossary, an index, table of contents, and reader's guide. Students will be intrigued by Native American history with this fascinating nonfiction Spanish book.

Inka rulers led a huge empire with grand palaces. They had incredible riches. Artists made statues out of gold and silver. The Inka also made masterpieces out of grass. Their grass bridges crossed deep canyons. These engineering marvels let soldiers and messengers travel around the empire. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Smithsonian Informational Text builds students' reading skills while engaging their curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. It features a hands-on STEAM challenge that guides students through every step of the engineering...

Learn how streets are fixed, sidewalks get added, and new schools are built with this Spanish nonfiction book. Perfect for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a glossary, an additional project, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color Spanish book describes the many ways individuals can make changes in their communities. It also covers essential civics topics such as leadership and voting, and includes an extension activity for grade 2. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool, to explore voting, local...

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 biography focuses on the life and times of Junípero Serra, the Franciscan missionary who created missions that stretched from San Francisco to San Diego. 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 ...

The Flame is Cohens powerful goodbye to this world: a compilation of lyrics, selections of his many notebooks which he kept for years, new poems, illustrations and self-portraits. These pages are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plunged into the depths and come up with the truth in his hands.

Una noche, una mano misteriosa empieza a colar extraños mensajes en el buzón de doña Parlanchano: la señora más antipática y malas pulgas del edificio. Todos les echan la culpa de la gamberrada a Manuel y a Lola, los protagonistas de esta historia. Ni siquiera sus padres les creen cuando los hermanos insisten en que ellos no han sido. De nada les vale que la abuela, que siempre se pone de su parte, intente salvarles: ¡Les castigan sin fiesta de Halloween! Los niños tendrán que convertirse en auténticos detectives e investigar, uno a uno, a todos sus vecinos para encontrar al...

La multitud silenciosa es la historia de un perdedor que no desea redimirse porque no cree en los finales felices. Prisionero de sus contradicciones, Pedro M. no es un tipo que quiera vivir al margen, ni se trata tampoco de que las circunstancias le sean a él especialmente desfavorables. Lo suyo es sencillamente incapacidad. Su mirada se ha quedado prendida de la mueca absurda de la realidad y él no puede, muy a su pesar, mirar para otro lado y creerse su vida. Escrita con un estilo en el que destacan la ironía y el recurso constante del humor, desbordante y canalla por momentos, la novela ...

Biografía de Azucena Villaflor es un material indispensable para quien quiera conocer detalles del origen de Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Del origen contado por sus propias protagonistas. Y para conocer a Azucena desde tres generaciones anteriores. Pero sobre todo, para recorrer al lado de ella los días tremendos desde el 30 de noviembre de 1976 cuando la dictadura secuestra a su hijo Néstor, hasta que es arrojada desde un avión de la Marina, con vida, al mar.