La cebra

With sugar skulls, sweet-smelling marigold petals and joyful songs, Hispanic families welcome back ancestors on this holiday.

Computer science is all around us, at school, at home, and in the community. This book gives readers the essential tools they need to understand the computer science concept of problem decomposition. Brilliant color photographs and accessible text will engage readers and allow them to connect deeply with the concept. The computer science topic is paired with an age-appropriate curricular topic to deepen readers' learning experience and show how problem decomposition works in the real world. In this book, readers will learn how to break down their research into different kinds of sources. This ...

Winner of: International Latino Book Awards 2014, Primer Premio en la categoría Best Young Adult Non-Fiction Book Focusing on key figures from the worlds of art, literature, music, politics, and science, this collection introduces young readers to luminaries who, despite the difficulties and failures of their childhoods, went on to accomplish great things. Readers will discover what individuals such as Jane Austen, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi, John Lennon, Pablo Picasso, and even the author himself were like as children and young adults, and draw inspiration from their...

Por causas que aún se desconocen, uno de los mejores escritores franceses del siglo XIX no pudo ver publicada su Opera Prima. A pesar de que todas sus novelas obtuvieron un éxito abrumador en aquella época, su primera obra nunca llegó a ver la luz y fue censurada y guardada en una caja fuerte en algún recóndito lugar del viejo París. Ahora, un siglo después, el nieto de un empleado de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia, ha descubierto que bajo la ajustada prosa de las apasionantes novelas de Julio Verne existe un mensaje cifrado que indica dónde puede estar guardado el manuscrito...