Chaikovski Descubre America/Tchaikovsky Discovers America

In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

Many people who live in the city do not have space for gardens. But they still want the fresh food, flowers, and herbs that come from a garden. So, they plant gardens in pots or planters. Sometimes they form a team and find an empty lot to plant their gardens in. People use patterns to plan how best to use their space. This is a great way for people to live in the city and have a beautiful garden. What would you plant in your city garden?

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Amir Valle nació en Guantánamo, Cuba, en 1967. Licenciado en Periodismo por la Universidad de La Habana, además de su labor como periodista, crítico literario y ensayista ha desarrollado una prolífica y exitosa carrera como narrador, con títulos como Los desnudos de Dios, Santuario de sombras (Almuzara, 2006) o Las palabras y los muertos. Su obra ha sido traducida a numerosos idiomas y cuenta con un sinfín de galardones, como el Premio de Novela Negra "Distel Verlag" (Alemania, 1998) o el Premio Internacional de Novela “Mario Vargas Llosa” de 2006, auspiciado por la Universidad de...