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.

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.

Amusing and dynamic, this collection offers children a variety of jokes and riddles and teaches them the art of telling jokes. Divertida y dinámica, esta colección ofrece a los niños una variedad de chistes y acertijos y les enseña el arte de contar chistes.

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...

This compare-and-contrast text explains the technology we seldom feel we can go without; the phone, computer, and camera. Readers learn the difference between old and new versions of each. New vocabulary such as 'stationary' and 'portable' are introduced. A picture-word glossary is included.