Outer Space / El espacio exterior

Simple text and photographs describe dragonflies, including their physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle.

Desastres naturales (Natural Disasters) is an exciting book about how estimations and predictions help save lives in natural disasters. Students will learn critical math concepts as they are engaged in reading about the properties of natural disasters. Practice problems and mathematical diagrams help students reinforce the importance of mathematics. This Spanish title includes a glossary, an index, engaging images, and easy-to-read text to help students build their math and reading skills.

In today's chaotic world, opportunities abound for youth to disengage from community and worship. Once this happens, young people often don't come back. The National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry wrote From Age to Age in 1997 as part of multiple-year response, to increase youth participation in worship. The document sparked national dialogue on how Roman Catholic parishes might best reach out to and involve youth in Catholic worship. From Age to Age revisits the liturgical principles of Vatican Council II and applies them in creative ways. The document provides strategies to help...

Biography of Benjamin Franklin, a great American inventor, statesmen and diplomat as well as one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. In graphic novel format.

"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...