Viaje de ida

En lo que alguna vez fue un parque, un niño y una niña compiten por ver quién se queda con el pasamanos. Tímidos son los acercamientos del niño; seguros, los de la niña. Ambos están ahí porque es mejor que estar en sus casas. Sin embargo, es la niña quien tiene más necesidad de evasión y de atención, y quien más ha desarrollado todo su juego. El parque es Marte, el pasamanos es la nave y ella es la reina. Hasta el niño, y el lector con él, terminarán entrando en la fantasía.

A 2014 report by the US Department of Education found that 22 percent of students ages twelve to eighteen had experienced bullying. This cogent narrative provides readers with supportive methods to help a friend who is being bullied and to promote a bully-free learning environment at school. Physical, social, psychological, and verbal bullying are examined, as well as cyberbulling. Readers discover the consequences of bullying both as a target and as a bystander. They also consider ways to intervene in a bullying situation, how to seek adult help, and how to be empowered and recover from...

Presenta varios experimentos en cronometría. Para estudiantes de primaria (grados 4-6) y de secundaria (grados 7-9).

There is growing concern over how we behave and interact online, from fighting, incivility, rudeness, and even criminal behaviors like cyberbullying, to simply adapting old forms of etiquette to a new landscape. This book, updated from an earlier resource, provides younger readers an introduction to this timely topic, a subject that they are both engaged in forming themselves as "digital natives," and one they also often require guidance in. It informs readers about the polite and productive use of social media networks and mobile platforms and discusses pressing issues of etiquette within...