Ayudar a un amigo con un desorden alimenticio (Helping a Friend With an Eating Disorder)

As a teen who may be worried about certain warning signs a friend is exhibiting, it’s important to know how to recognize and confront an eating disorder. After all, teens are the most impacted group for developing eating disorders. Learn how the pressures of school, dating, and athletics contribute to body image issues and why teens are vulnerable. Explore eating disorders that people commonly have and how they are treated. Readers from grades six through twelve will have a relatable text to help them understand how they can make a difference to someone they care about.

Compares and contrasts the plants, animals, and indigenous peoples of the world's rainforests by continent, exploring secrets of survival in the forest and examining how human exploitation threatens these diverse habitats.

The story of Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca brims with his adventures and misadventures throughout the North American Southwest. As of the sixteenth century, no European had journeyed over such a large extension of territory, from the Florida Peninsula to northern Mexico, and survived. This lively and informative volume goes on to examine his eight years of wandering in this unknown land, during which he learned natural medicine from the American natives and became a curandero, learned their languages, and served as a trader and peacemaker among different tribes. Vibrant...

Hacia 1991, durante los primeros compases de la guerra civil que asoló la remota isla de Bougainville, la joven Matilda y su madre viven solas ante la ausencia del padre, que debió emigrar tras perder su trabajo en las minas de cobre. Entre quienes se quedaron en la isla está el señor Watts, un excéntrico hombre blanco que un buen día decide reabrir las puertas de la escuela y ejercer de maestro. Su método es combinar la lectura en voz alta de capítulos de Grandes esperanzas, su novela favorita de Charles Dickens, con la intervención de las gentes del pueblo que quieran compartir...

Desde geografías distantes y contextos divergentes, todos los escritores que se presentan anudan su ser en los libros que devinieron sus patrias. Se muestra la manera con la que algunos lidiaron con el legado de generaciones de judíos a lo largo y ancho del mundo.