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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. Students will learn about California’s gold rush by examining maps, letters, images, and art from that time. 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 know at their grade level. Packed with information and primary...

Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it.

Mysterious ancient ruins, hidden deep in the jungle of southern Mexico In May 1840, explorers John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood road their mules along a steep, muddy jungle path. They were hoping to find the ruins of an ancient, deserted site in Mexico they knew only from visitors’ accounts. Through the trees, they spied the remains of a crumbling stone palace. Palenque! In the weeks they spent there, the men discovered intricately designed buildings and mysterious glyphs, or symbols. Who built this city? What did the glyphs mean? The questions remained largely unanswered until the...

Queridos amigos, Aprendí a leer desde muy niña buenas lecturas, cuando ya leía de “corrido" me nutrí en la biblioteca de mi abuelo, un militar ermitaño ya pensionado; mi imaginación también volaba oyendo los cuentos de las tertulias de antaño, que se daban en expresiones de admiración de temor, y de risas y cololoquios de familias pueblerinas. Hoy a mis años, las mezclas de entre los recuerdos y los sueños y en mi soledad la visita de alguno que otro fantasma que comparte conmigo amablemente lo que fueron sus vidas, me han abismado al mundo de la imaginación y de las letras, no...