Cruzar un continente (Crossing a Continent)

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they're much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book focuses on the history of California's missions. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade level. Packed with information and primary source maps, images, and documents,...

Readers will love this exciting biography about the famous cowgirl, Annie Oakley! Through colorful images, helpful text, an accessible glossary and index, and timeline of Annie's life, readers will discover the amazing things that Annie could do with a gun, how she earned the nickname Little Sure Shot, and how she became one of the stars of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show! This book has been translated into Spanish.

New York City’s desegregated Palladium Ballroom springs to life with a diverse 1940s cast in this jazzy picture-book tribute to the history of mambo and Latin jazz. Era la década de 1940 en la segregada cuidad de Nueva York. Ya sea que bailaras al sonido de las trompetas y los saxofones en un salón en el barrio italiano o en la calle al son de maracas y congas en el barrio puertorriqueño, generalmente bailabas en el lugar donde vivías y con gente de tu mismo origen. Pero antes de que terminara la década, una nueva sala de baile — el Palladium – acogió a personas de todos los...

In one of his works, Barthes wrote; "If I was a writer and I was dead, I would like that my life be reduced through the care of a friendly and confident biographer, to some details ... whose distinction and mobility could be translated out of any destiny."And Calvet has made it.

La fiesta de las estaciones recoge los mejores cuentos, poemas, tradiciones, adivinanzas y juegos para descubrir los cambios que nos depara cada estaci�n del a�o. A veces da la impresi�n de que el a�o se repite: estaci�n tras estaci�n salen del mismo escondite los meses y las semanas... Pero los ni�os lo saben: hoy no es igual que ma�ana, las estaciones son fiestas. Las estaciones de a�o son algo que suscita un gran inter�s por parte de los ni�os. Cada vez que un peque�o curioso pregunta por qu� existen diferentes estaciones podemos explic�rselo de muchas maneras....