Heroes y villanos / Heroes and villains

In Planes, emergent readers learn about planes and how theyre used as a mode of transportation. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once.

In 1846, travelers heading for California became trapped high in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Snowdrifts surrounded their shelters, and food supplies dwindled. How they stayed alive remains one of the most gruesome stories in US history. However, some facts that have come to light recently through archaeological digs will surprise even those who think they know the story. This gripping book, including maps and images of the era, tells the true account of the doomed Donner party.

La lluvia amarilla es el monólogo del último habitante de un pueblo abandonado del Pirineo aragonés. Entre «la lluvia amarilla» de las hojas del otoño que se equipara al fluir del tiempo y la memoria, o en la blancura alucinante de la nieve, la voz del narrador, a las puertas de la muerte, nos evoca a otros habitantes desaparecidos del pueblo, que lo abandonaron o murieron, y nos enfrenta a los extravíos de su mente y a las discontinuidades de su percepción en el villorio fantasma del que se ha enseñoreado la soledad. En el pueblo de Ainielle ya sólo quedan Andrés y Sabina. Poco a...

This book introduces you to hippopotamuses, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.