Michael Owen

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.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Inform readers of the dangers of smoking with this fact-filled, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through helpful diagrams, detailed images, and truthful facts, readers are given the tools and information to educate themselves about smoking, tobacco, addiction, and the health problems that smoking can cause. With informational text, an index, glossary of terms, and list of websites, children are encouraged to say no to smoking, to peer pressure, and learn what steps they can take to help prevent others from starting.

Following the stock market crash of 1929, the United States plummeted into the Great Depression and unemployment soared. But when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office the following year, he enacted federal programs, financial regulations, and public works projects to boost the economy and put America back together. In this instructive volume, students will discover fascinating facts and little-known details about this series of reforms, called the New Deal. They'll also be able to choose from a variety of hands-on projects, from map-making to writing and performing a speech to designing and...

Regina no sabe que un simple contrato cambiará su vida para siempre, y Emma no sabe que ese contrato le traerá aquello con lo que siempre ha soñado