Células (Cells)

Celebrating tolerance and acceptance, each title in this constructive and accessible series focuses on the rewards and challenges of having a friend with a disability. Everyday situations are accompanied by informative sidebars that provide details about the highlighted disability.

Celebrating tolerance and acceptance, each title in this constructive and accessible series focuses on the rewards and challenges of having a friend with a disability. Everyday situations are accompanied by informative sidebars that provide details about the highlighted disability.

In 1991, preparation for the construction of a new federal office building led to a startling discovery: a skeleton. Further excavation exposed the bones of 420 men, women, and children. This area of New York had been a burial ground set aside for both free and enslaved Africans during the 1600s and 1700s. It’s thought to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. This noteworthy book—which includes sidebars, fact boxes, a timeline, and maps—fills in the gaps of history books, exposing much about what life was like in colonial New York for Africans.

Un pueblecito de Irlanda. El cartero del pueblo descubre tres cadáveres en casa de Moira, una vecina extravagante y distante que hace años que vive sola y apartada en su gran casa. Los cadáveres corresponden a dos hermanas jóvenes, Fiona y Roisin, huérfanas y sobrinas de Moira, y a ésta última. Los cuerpos de las jóvenes están en un estado esquelético y con señales de haber estado esposadas.Unos días más tarde Niall, un joven empleado de correos, descubre en la oficina un paquete abandonado enviado por Fiona: dentro del sobre hay un diario en el que declara que ella y Roisin han...