Mujeres en los deportes (Women in Sports)

Even the smallest tide pools are actually entire ecosystems! The creatures that call a tide pool home are connected through food chains that represent the passing of energy from one living thing to another. Readers discover how these unique food chains all come together as they view a helpful tide pool food web. Fun fact boxes accompany informative text about life in a tide pool. Detailed photographs of tide pool ecosystems introduce readers to a variety of cool creatures.

Which animals and plants can survive in a dry desert environment? Readers learn about the living things that make up desert food chains, including cacti, snakes, and scorpions. Colorful photographs of desert life make readers feel like they’re exploring new parts of this habitat with each turn of the page. Fact boxes provide additional information about the creatures that make up desert food chains, and a detailed food web shows how these food chains all come together. The desert is an extreme habitat, and readers will enjoy learning about the extreme plants and animals that live there.

Esta historia cuenta cómo un niño, sin quererlo, sube a un cuadrilátero: sólo que el combate no será máscara contra cabellera, como los que tanto disfruta en los espectáculos deportivos. Tendrá que pelear con toda su fuerza interior para sanar de leucemia, un viejo y mañoso adversario.

Provides encouragement and advice for facing life's challenges, just for girls, with blank spaces to fill in goals and accomplishments.

Un espectacular retrato de lo salvaje. Un lobo que aúlla, un tigre al acecho, un panda juguetón, un pájaro en plena danza de cortejo. Aunando las impresionantes imágenes del fotógrafo de National Geographic Joel Sartore con la delicada prosa poética del ganador de premio Newbery, Kwame Alexander, este lujoso libro de imágenes celebra la belleza, la diversidad y la fragilidad del mundo animal. Con más de cuarenta extraordinarias fotografías, sus páginas invitan a los niños a explorar las manchas, las texturas y los atributos de cada animal, retratados con impresionante detalle, al...

What sort of woman has a taste for middle-aged, married men? Ellie, twenty years old and living in Paris, leads a light and carefree life until she meets, through Facebook, "Mister", a married surgeon approaching middle age. Beginning with their frenzied affair in a hotel room in the fifteenth arrondissement, Monsieur details the clandestine Tuesday morning hotel meetings and fleeting phone calls spanning several months of sexual adventure. Generous with her body and never lacking erotic imagination (or partners, men and women), Ellie illuminates her deviations in a lucid, ferocious, and...