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.

When people think of soft things, they immediately conjure up images of furry bunnies and similarly textured animals and objects. This inviting book helps young readers to do the same, as learning about textures is an important tenet of the early elementary curriculum. Carefully selected photographs of soft objects make the concept of texture clear to the reader as well as aid in vocabulary acquisition.

Hay que acostumbrarse a todo en la vida incluso a la eternidad.Erik, El Fantasma de la Ópera Hace cien años, unos obreros descubrieron en los subterráneos de la Ópera Garnier de París una sala elegantemente amueblada. Contenía las composiciones e instrumentos del legendario Fantasma de la Ópera, pertenencias que no tardaron en perderse en anticuarios de la ciudad.Ahora, un siglo después, la joven Christelle debe averiguar cuál es el secreto del violín que llega a sus manos, el por qué de la música esotérica que engendran las cuerdas y cómo puede devolvérselo al dueño original...

Where did the sunflower come from? How does it grow so tall? How can its thin stalk support such a large and heavy head? These and many other questions are answered in this dazzling book. Using lushly detailed illustrations and photographs, the book takes us inside the sunflower to examine its stem, root system, leaves, and flowering heads, proving an understanding of this unique plant's structure, growth, flowering, reproduction, and cultivation.

Un libro chic, que te hará reír y encontrar tu lado más cool. Una guía definitiva que te mostrará las ventajas de incorporar a tu vida el look, la actitud y el charme perisino con ironía y descaro...