Vivo cerca de un bosque (There's a Forest in My Backyard!)

Deserts are the driest places on Earth, but they’re full of life! Cacti, kangaroo rats, shrubs, foxes, and more have found ways to adapt to the extreme temperatures and dry conditions of deserts around the world. Readers learn about many of these adaptations as well as the major features of the desert biome. Simple maps highlight some of the biggest deserts, helping readers learn map skills. Full-color photographs reinforce accessible information about the desert ecosystem, including a concluding message of conservation.

This Spanish-translated nonfiction title gives children an in-depth look at what a career as a police officer is like. Readers will learn about various aspects of life as a police officer--from being accepted into the academy to keeping streets safe. Readers will learn what a typical day in the police academy is like as well as a day in the field as an officer. Through helpful charts and diagrams and colorful images in conjunction with informational text and stunning facts, readers discover important aspects of keeping communities safe, including what's inside the patrol car, K-9 units,...

A giant, spinning storm forms over the ocean. People living on the coast start to flee inland for safety. Once the storm makes landfall, heavy rains and fast-moving winds knock down trees and destroy homes. In this captivating introduction to hurricanes, early readers will be swept up in the dramatic text that describes the first signs of a hurricane, its destructive power, and, most importantly, how to stay safe from a hurricane’s devastating winds and rains. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. Stunning photos closely ...

CIVIC COMPETENCIES - Reflection, decision, action - What education do we want for this moment and for the future for citizens? The building of a viable future in which democracy, equity, social justice, peace and harmony with our natural environment, and the ethic of responsible citizenship are shared values, passes today as education for citizenship, a project that has as a horizon, the formation of responsible and free persons to engage in democratic processes with a new ecological, peaceful reasoning, inclined to solidarity, called to construct the value of the different and to be...

Mis pies tienen raíz tiene una estructura única: un índice que revela los lazos que compartieron personajes que pueden haber estado muy lejos unas de otras en el tiempo y en el espacio. Si una era pintora y ensayista, otra era ensayista e historiadora, y otra más historiadora y cocinera... Este entrecruzamiento hace énfasis en el papel de las mujeres como guías, mentoras, inspiradoras y maestras de las generaciones siguientes, y busca contrarrestar los discursos que las muestran como historias anómalas, aisladas unas de otras. Las imágenes en acrílico que ilustran cada historia...