Saboreando el Cielo

Diecisiete descubrimientos asombrosos que fueron claves y que marcaron el rumbo de nuestra historia. La mayoría de los hallazgos arqueológicos ocurren después de meses o años de investigación minuciosa y trabajo meticuloso..., pero a veces solo hay que estar en el lugar correcto en el momento adecuado para descubrir algo asombroso, ¡por casualidad! Este libro es una aventura en la que reviviremos algunos de los descubrimientos más sorprendentes y extraordinarios con los que se toparon personas normales y corrientes de distintas partes del mundo. Desde el hallazgo de Herculano a...

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...

This Spanish language edition of Yuyi Morales's Pura Belpré Award winner and New York Times Bestseller Dreamers is now available in paperback! Caldecott Honor artist and six-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales's gorgeous book Dreamers, and its Spanish language version Soñadores, are about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi did not speak any English at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their ...

Do you know why there are thirteen stripes and fifty stars on the American flag? Or how the American flag inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Spangled Banner?" Find out the answers to these questions and more in The American Flag.