Un día de trabajo: Médico de emergencias

Hop on that big red truck for a real adventure! Being a firefighter takes a lot of hard work. Early elementary readers learn about the important responsibilities it takes to be a firefighter--from the fire equipment to living in the fire station. With vivid photos and images, a timetable of firefighting history, informational, Spanish-translated text, and intriguing facts, this book will have readers engaged and eager to learn all about this stimulating occupation. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Think you'd like to be a fire fighter? Learn about the special equipment fire fighters use, their role in community safety, and their lives at the station. This book features a comprehensive timeline of the history of firefighting from its origins in ancient Rome through firefighting practices of today plus vocabulary related to fire fighters and fire safety.

Integrate science, history, and math into literacy lessons with these high-interest, Spanish-translated books. Topics such as space exploration, endangered animals and money management are designed to engage and inform students. Sophisticated graphics, interactive text features promote critical thinking hand help students build vocabulary and increase visual literacy skills.

Using helpful maps, charts, and intriguing facts in conjunction with vibrant images and informational text, this fact-filled, Spanish-translated nonfiction title allows early elementary readers to explore the lush rainforests of the world. Readers will learn make their way from the forest floor to the understory, all the way to the canopy!

Hubo un tiempo en que muy poco se sabía de nuestro mundo. Se pensaba que en los mares había monstruos inmensos capaces de tragar un barco entero. Se pensaba también que la Tierra era plana y que al final de los mares había un precipicio donde los navegantes caían sin retorno. Pero, a pesar de estas ideas que hoy nos parecen alocadas, hubo alguien llamado Cristóbal Colón que se animó a unir el continente europeo y el americano en un viaje que sería inolvidable. En ese viaje no se encontró con monstruos enormes ni con serpientes gigantes. Al final de ese viaje se encontró, nada más...

Santiago Carrillo narra en esta autobiografía su vida política a lo largo del siglo XX, y las relaciones que mantuvo con importantes políticos de ámbito nacional e internacional, entre los que cabe destacar a Manuel Azaña, Dolores Ibárruri, Juan Carlos I, Stalin, Fidel Castro, el Che Guevara, Mao Tse Tung, Saddam Hussein o Salvador Allende.

Manifest Destiny the name given in the 1840s to a belief that the coast-to-coast expansion of the United States was both inevitable and justified, regardless of the means. Standing in the way were not only the native populations, but also the descendants of Spanish settlers who had lived in the Southwest for centuries. The racist belief that white men rightfully should expand their institutions into the area brought the United States into conflict with Mexico. War was declared in 1846, and by the time the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, ending the war, the US had gained...