Conoce a Gabriela Mistral

Learn what it takes to be a community leader. This Spanish nonfiction book emphasizes the importance of local leaders and it includes a fiction story related to the topic, glossary, bonus activity, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color Spanish book describes the roles and responsibilities of various leadership positions. It also covers important civics topics like volunteerism and leadership, and includes an extension activity for grade 2. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool, to explore communities, local government, and how individuals...

¿Qué tan preparado estás para criar a tu bebé durante sus primeros meses de vida? Pocas cosas pueden comprarse con los primeros meses de vida de un bebé, pues son los que tendrán el mayor impacto en su desarrollo e infancia. Sin embargo, tanto los padres primerizos como los veteranos concuerdan en que el primer año de vida de un bebé es de las etapas más difíciles de enfrentar. Con esta guía, aprenderás lo siguiente: Cómo alimentar a tu bebé apropiadamente para promover su desarrollo y salud en su primer año de vida. Cómo lograr que tu bebé tenga buenos hábitos de sueño y...

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...

The Underground Railroad was the massive effort by slaves and free people to secretly bring thousands of blacks to freedom in the North during the 19th century. This thought-provoking book will capture readers’ imaginations and fill them with awe for the brave “conductors” and “passengers” on the Railroad. They’ll learn about the many safe havens, called “depots,” that housed fugitives and the secret passages within them that hid slaves from their pursuers. Information about the American Civil War and the Fugitive Slave Act, biographies of figures vital to the Underground Railroad,...