Benjamin Franklin

Cynthia Ann Parkers family moved to Central Texas when she was about nine years old. A year later, a large force of Comanche warriors attacked Fort Parker and seized Cynthia Ann and four other captives. The other four were eventually released, but she lived among the Indians for 25 years, immersed in the Comanche way of life. Though given a number of opportunities to go back to her white family, she always chose her life with the Comanche, choosing instead to stay with her husband and children. She eventually returned to white society as an adult.

María no puede ir al colegio porque tiene mucha tos. Sus padres trabajan, así que la solución es contratar a Gerda como canguro. Pero, lo que María no entiende es que sus padres la hayan elegido. ¿Es que nadie se da cuenta de que es una bruja? Un libro que refleja la importancia de no dejarse llevar por las primeras impresiones.

Give young students an insight into what life was like for the colonists in early America. This Spanish-translated book explores such topics as Puritans, the Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, Navigation Acts, and slavery. Along with brief biographies on colonists and Native Americans such as John Smith, William Penn, Pocahontas, and John Rolfe, this engaging book explains the means of survival and living through farming, colonial crops, and plantations.

Kids use pencils everyday. Read to find out how a pencil is made. Paired to the fiction title Where is My Eraser?.