Amelia Earhart

The world around us is more powerful than we know. Discover how earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and more have affected people and places around the world in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through informational text, vivid images, and stunning facts and charts, readers will learn about disasters such as The Great Potato Famine, Hurricane Katrina, Mount St. Helens, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as well as epidemics and pandemics such as the bubonic plague and swine flu.

Novela. "Tan sencillo como era. Pues me bastó con cerrar los ojos y escuchar, me bastó con enmudecer la voz y dejar de pensar. Sentarme a oír los más íntimos detalles, me bastó con intentarlo, y hacerlo sin prisa. Entonces ocurrió sin más. Llegaron aquellos silencios infinitos, sus ruidos más bellos. La materia invisible que sin gritos lo conectaba todo. Un abrazo invisible y apasionado que brotaba sin llagas ni lamentos. Así pues... que como un principio para mí, todo empezó a ser. Todo y junto a ella."

Book Features: • Ages 5-8, Grades K-2 • 24 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches • Simple, easy-to-read pages in Spanish with full-color pictures • Includes a photo glossary and a reading extension activity • Supports NGSS Dive Into Learning: In Mi Biblioteca de Ciencias de la Tierra y el Espacio: Observando el Tiempo, kindergarten—second graders learn about all the fascinating but severe weather conditions our world faces. Science Learning Made Fun: Weather is constantly changing. Young readers learn about all the different severe weather events and conditions, as well as the difference...

The second edition of Cinema for Spanish Conversation includes the same stimulating exercises and conversation materials that have made the first edition a success among students and instructors alike. The text is designed to be used in courses in which outstanding films from the Spanish-speaking world are used as springboards for classroom Spanish-language discussion. Using high-interest feature films, students hear Spanish as it is spoken in different countries and in a wide variety of situations and are encouraged to listen to and converse about the social and cultural aspects of...

Recounts the life of Cuban violinist Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas, a black child who was born free and began his career as a musical prodigy to become a noted concert musician in Paris, while slavery still existed on the island.