Francisca Alvarez

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.

Discusses the physical characteristics of great white sharks that combine to make them such able predators.

Cuentos que relatan diferentes realidades de jóvenes de la misma edad en distintas zonas del planeta; y cuentos que retratan diferentes realidades de jóvenes en una zona tan común para todos ellos como puede ser el metro de Barcelona. Cuentos que harán reflexionar sobre la convivencia y sobre la necesidad de conseguir un mundo más justo.

Luis Felipe Campuzano (Sevilla 1963). Tras licenciarse en derecho por la Universidad Hispalense, marcha a Barcelona donde cursa un postgrado en alta dirección de empresas. Hasta la fecha, toda su vida profesional se ha desarrollado en el mundo empresarial, habiendo ocupado puestos de alta dirección en diversas compañías multinacionales europeas. En otoño de 2005 publica su primera novela, Réquiem por un marrano (Editorial Almuzara), ambientada en la Sevilla del siglo XV. En otoño de 2006 sale al mercado su segundo trabajo editorial, un cómic titulado Big in Japan, un éxito de ventas...

This is a hopeful conservation story about an endangered family of Mexican gray wolves who live in a sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest and their journey that leads to their successful release to the wild in Mexico. This nonfiction story, illustrated with color photography, follows the lives of a Mexican gray wolf family, known as lobos, with pups born at a sanctuary in Washington State near Mount Rainier, to their release into the wild in Mexico. Through this hopeful and engaging story of conservation, kids learn about wolves--their characteristics and behavior--and the challenge of...