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.

Book Features: • Ages 5-8, Grades K-2 • 24 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches • Simple, easy-to-read pages in Spanish with full-color pictures • Includes a photo glossary and a reading extension activity • Supports NGSS Dive Into Learning: In Mi Biblioteca de Ciencias de la Tierra y el Espacio: Las Estaciones y el Sol, kindergarten—second graders learn about the different seasons and what causes them to change. Science Learning Made Fun: Why do seasons change? Young readers learn the science behind the Earth’s tilt toward the sun and how it causes seasonal changes. Build Reading Skills: ...

A pesar de que mi nombre es Karol Wojtyla, todo el mundo me conoce como Juan Pablo II. Viv en Roma, en el Vaticano, junto a la famosa Baslica de San Pedro. Mi imagen sola aparecer a menudo tanto en los peridicos como en la televisin, por eso todo el mundo crea que era muy importante, aunque yo nunca consider que lo fuera. A lo largo de mi vida persegu de forma incansable un sueo: que la gente de todo el mundo apartase el odio y aprendiese a vivir en paz.

"El libro de Pedro Gallo está escrito con prosa rica, culta, ágil y fluida. Y aborda un tema que conoce realmente bien, y que justamente por ello lo explica con profundidad y con claridad. Es un libro que se lee con todo interés y con todo gusto. La relación entre España y Japón es básicamente buena pero tiene un potencial de desarrollo y crecimiento espectacular prácticamente en todas las áreas incluyendo, además de la economía y la política, la cultural y la sociológica. El proceso de conocer mejor un país como Japón es fascinante. Es un ejercicio intelectual que merece la...

Our closest solar system is about 10 light years away. It has two main types of planets. Some are rocky and small, like planet Earth, while others are huge balls of gas, like Jupiter. Learn about how astronomers once thought our solar system was the one and only, to how they have now discovered hundreds of stars with planets orbiting them, which means there could be billions of solar systems in outer space! Just maybe, these alien worlds could host life, like our own amazing planet. This book allows students to use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be...