Vivo cerca de un desierto (There's a Desert in My Backyard!)

Many people around the world live in the forest biome. That’s because temperate forests grow in places where winter isn’t too cold and summer isn’t too hot. Readers learn that we need to care for this biome that’s in so many backyards. Simple, accessible language describes common trees and characteristics of both evergreen and deciduous forests, and full-color photographs highlight their beauty. Animals and their adaptations to this biome are addressed in the main content as well.

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.

Un libro de referencia para todas las preguntas que chicos y chicas se hacen sobre el sexo, aunque les resulta incómodo hablar de ello. Con textos escritos por profesionales, serio, riguroso, pero al mismo tiempo ameno y divertido. Porque la mejor protección es la información.

"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...

Mentiras que las jóvenes creen proporcionará a las jovenes entre 13 y 19 años las herramientas que necesitan para identificar dónde se han descarriado en su vida y sus creencias como resultado de creer las mentiras de Satanás acerca de Dios, los chicos, los medios de comunicación, y más.Lies Young Women Believe will give girls ages 13 to 19 the tools they need to identify where their lives and beliefs are off course-the result of buying into Satan's lies about God, guys, media, and more.