El Juramento de Lealtad (The Pledge of Allegiance) (Spanish Version)

George Washington Carver was a skilled botanist who became famous for his work with peanuts and other plants. Readers will discover the captivating life of this incredible scientist in this engaging scientific biography translated in Spanish. Using colorful photos and graphs, children will learn why Carver was known as "The Plant Doctor" as a child and how his work with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and pecans helped change the way people used plants! The helpful glossary and index aid in better understanding of the content, while a simple, interesting experiment leaves Spanish-speaking children...

Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in fighting for Civil Rights for all people. In this Spanish-translated biography, readers will learn about his inspirational life as he fought for equality of African Americans through nonviolence. The rich photos, supportive text, helpful glossary, timeline, table of contents, and index give readers important information for understanding King's fight against Jim Crow Laws.

Young readers will learn the ways that César Chávez fought to protect the rights and lives of migrant workers in this inspiring Spanish-translated biography that gives history behind protests and developments of unions that Chávez led. Vivid images and an interesting timeline of Chávez's life work in conjunction with supportive text and a helpful glossary, table of contents, and index to engage readers from cover to cover.

A menudo, las matemáticas han sido sinónimo de dificultad y aburrimiento, lo cual es totalmente injusto. Todo es matemáticas: desde el número de los latidos de nuestro corazón hasta las órbitas de los planetas. Este libro quiere devolver a las matemáticas el puesto que se merecen en los corazones de los jóvenes. El libro contiene: un relato, que trata del misterio del cuadrado mágico; 20 preguntas y respuestas con todo lo esencial que hay que saber sobre las matemáticas; la mochila del sin-vergüenza que incluye un montón de curiosidades complementarias, para aquellos que no tienen ...

'Come, Jameela. Stand right here. I need to do something.' I grab hold of his sleeve. 'Where are you going?' His face is twisted. He doesn't look at me. 'Never mind.' Jameela lives with her family in a war-torn village in Afghanistan. Life is hard, but when her mother dies, and her father remarries, Jameela has to face a greater horror. To survive she draws on the strong sense of self that her mother gave her. Based on a real girl called Sameela, and a real orphanage, this unforgettable novel tells the story of a devout Muslim girl and what life is really like in post-Taliban Afghanistan....

Xena es una perra que cuenta todo lo que acontece en la familia Reverte, y lo adereza con humor y apuntes de cultura general. Xena es muy culta y nos transmite todos sus conocimientos a través de las conversaciones que mantiene con otro animal que vive en la casa: un gato un tanto bobalicón. Los malentendidos entre los dos animales aportan grandes dosis de diversión, a la vez que nos hacen reflexionar sobre las cosas importantes de la vida. Desde el refuerzo de la autoestima, clave en el equilibrio emocional, Xena nos transmite de forma divertida y amena valores humanos, nos sugiere cómo...

Olivia se ha despertado de la siesta de muy mal humor y muy caprichosa. Pero siempre puede encontrar algo divertido que hacer.