Marie Curie

Think there's just one fairy tale with a girl who meets danger in disguise? Think again! Cultures all around the world have their own Little Red Riding Hood stories. Visit Germany, Italy, and Taiwan, and find out whose "sick grandmother" is a tiger, and who is saved not by a "kind hunter" but by a talking river. Fully translated Spanish text.

"Amelia Earhart was a woman of many ""firsts."" In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while attempting a flight around the world, readers will find Amelia Earhart's life a fascinating story."

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.

Poetas del Renacimiento de Harlem (Harlem Renaissance) es una antología bilingüe que intenta representar y recuperar el centro así como los márgenes del movimiento | Poets of the Harlem Renaissance is a bilingual anthology that attempts to represent and recover the center as well as the margins of the movement: Claude McKay — Langston Hughes — Countee Cullen — Sterling Brown — Jean Toomer — Arna Bontemps — Angelina Grimké — Anne Spencer — Gwendolyn Bennett — Helene Johnson — Gwendolyn Brooks — Margaret Walker — Frank Horne — Georgia Douglas Johnson — Richard...