Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.

Join Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and their friends as they go on a series of exciting adventures on the Mississippi River. Find out what happens when they witness a murder, hide on an island, and how getting lost in a cave leads to the discovery of a great treasure... This reader uses the Expansive Reading approach, where the text becomes a springboard to improve language skills and to explore historical background, cultural connections and other topics suggested by the text. As well as the story, written and recorded in American English, this reader contains : A biography of Mark Twain ; A...

La abuela de Rosa esta enferma, y el sillon de la sala ahora permanece vac'o. Tambi'n el gran botell'n de la familia est? vac'o. Rosa est? preocupada. ?Qu? puede hacer para ayudar'. Abuela se siente mejor cuando Rosa y sus amigas tocan m'sica para ella y les dice que se siente como cuando era joven y bailaba en las fiestas . Al oirla, a Rosa se le ocurre una idea. ?Si abuela le gusta su musica, a lo mejor alguna gente pagar'a para escucharlas! Asi nace la Banda de la Calle Oak.

Órbita 1 - (color verde): presentación de la primera situación, muestra de lengua y explotación de exponentes funcionales; Órbita 2 (color laranja): presentación de la segunda situación, muestra de lengua y explotación de exponentes funcionales.

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...