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Como estudiante en la prestigiosa escuela Bradley, Ani FaNelli no paso la mejor de las adolescencias. Ahora, con un trabajo glamuroso, un armario caro y un apuesto novio, esta muy cerca de vivir la vida perfecta y frivola por la que ha estado trabajando tan duro. Pero Ani tiene un secreto. Hay algo en su pasado que todavia la persigue: algo privado, oculto, secreto y doloroso que amenaza con destruirlo todo. Con una voz y un estilo tan singular como lleno de giros dramaticos, La chica que lo tenia todo explora la presion insoportable bajo la que viven muchas mujeres, aquellas que se ven...

Our closest solar system is about 10 light years away. It has two main types of planets. Some are rocky and small, like planet Earth, while others are huge balls of gas, like Jupiter. Learn about how astronomers once thought our solar system was the one and only, to how they have now discovered hundreds of stars with planets orbiting them, which means there could be billions of solar systems in outer space! Just maybe, these alien worlds could host life, like our own amazing planet. This book allows students to use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be...

Computer science is all around us, at school, at home, and in the community. This book gives readers the essential tools they need to understand the computer science concept of simulations. Brilliant color photographs and accessible text will engage readers and allow them to connect deeply with the concept. The computer science topic is paired with an age-appropriate curricular topic to deepen readers' learning experience and show how simulations work in the real world. In this book, readers learn about American Revolution reenactment and how it simulates events from the past. This nonfiction ...

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...