Geography America

In a heartwarming first-person account, dePaola retells his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. 26 Fairmount Avenue is full of humor, drama, suspense and just the day-to-day ups and downs of a little boy's life.

Desde Aztlán emigró un pueblo guiado por Huitzilopochtli, el cual fundó la capital de un gran imperio: México-Tenochtitlán. Este tema, aunado al de las características especiales de la cultura, costumbres, organización, etc., hacen de esta obra una pieza inigualable. Este material contribuye al conocimiento y entendimiento de una cultura fundamental para comprender la historia antigua de México.

Even for an experienced traveler like Charlie, Cuba is a place unlike any he has visited before - an island full of surprises, secrets, and puzzling contradictions.

The US is huge! It has 50 states, each with their own state laws and geographic features. This geography book for kids will feature the South Region states composed of Texas, Florida, and Delaware, and more. Can you find a single distinguishing feature among all of them? Listen and learn from this book. Grab a copy today!

Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that’s okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. And when she discovers that someone is threatening the life of a baby elephant at her parents’ clinic, Oriol is determined to take action.

Oriol nació en Cuba, pero vive en Santa Bárbara, California, donde no logra encontrar su sitio. Sin embargo, pasa muchos buenos momentos cuando ayuda a sus padres en la clínica veterinaria de la familia, donde cuidan animales heridos. La primera ganadora latinoamericana de un Premio Nobel de Literatura, la poeta Gabriela Mistral, se muda entonces a Santa Bárbara, y Oriol se dscrube confesándole que aspira a ser escritora. Cuando la jovencita descubra que alguien está amenazando la vida de un pequeño elefante en la clínica de sus padres, decide tomar acción para protegerlo.

Meet Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, once just a girl growing up in The Bronx, New York, with her brother and Puerto Rican-born parents. From a young age, her mother emphasized the value of education. Sonia would eventually graduate summa cum laude from Princeton University, receive a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, and later begin working as an assistant district attorney for New York County. Throughout her decades-long career, Sonia Sotomayor has been driven by her commitment to justice, inspiring young people to follow their dreams and strive to make them reality.

Conoce a la magistrada de la Corte Suprema Sonia Sotomayor—que una vez fue simplemente una niña criándose en el Bronx, Nueva York, con su hermano y sus padres puertorriqueños. Desde temprana edad, su madre le inculcó el valor de la educación y, con el tiempo, Sonia se graduaría summa cum laude de la Universidad de Princeton, recibiría un doctorado en Derecho de la Universidad de Yale y comenzaría a trabajar como asistente de fiscal de distrito del Condado de Nueva York.

Conoce a Ellen Ochoa, antes solo una niña de Los Ángeles, California. La nieta de inmigrantes de México, Ellen siguió la carrera de física en su juventud, y alcanzo recibir una maestría y doctorado en ingeniería eléctrica de Stanford University. En el 1993, Ellen se convirtió en la primera astronauta Latina en el espacio. Ya retirada, Ellen ha trabajado como directora del Johnson Space Center, defensora por las mujeres y otras minorías en los campos STEM, y fue incluida en el Salón de la Fama de Astronautas.

Meet Ellen Ochoa, once just a girl from Los Angeles, California. The granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, Ellen would pursue a career in physics at a young age, and go on to earn master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. In 1993, Ellen became the first Latina in space. As a retired astronaut, she’s served as director of the Johnson Space Center, become an advocate for women and minorities in STEM fields, and was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Em uma escola três alunos baderneiros, encontram a competente professora Jaqueline com suas aulas de história. Mais tudo isso acaba quando em uma visita ao museu do Ipiranga, em uma exposição descobrem que a espada original de D. Pedro I que continha uma pedra de rubi que foi usada na independência do Brasil, desapareceu fazendo assim o fantasma de Dom Pedro surgir e os manda direto para o passado, em uma aventura sobre o conhecimento de um pedaço da história que levou D. Pedro I a proclamar a independência do Brasil.

In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy.

Fabio flies through the streets of Bogotá on his bicycle, the children of his neighborhood trailing behind him. It is there that life feels right - where the world of adults, and their lies, fades away. But then one day, he simply forgets. Forgets how to ride his bicycle. And Fabio will never be the same again.

Nat is a city girl through and through. She loves playing in open fire hydrants, laughing with her friends during block parties, and making trips to her local comic book shop to grab the latest copy of her favorite graphic novel series. So she's heartbroken when her mom says they're moving to a rural town hours away from Philadelphia. Who wants to live in the middle of Nowheresville? But getting used to her new small-town life might not be as bad as Nat thought now that she's met the boy next door and his beautiful horse, Ghost.

The United States has long been touted as a place where anyone with a little grit and determination could come to pursue the American Dream. But as more walls are erected and borders are closed, is that dream still alive today?

A new teacher finds a way to accept the challenge of the principal and create an exciting and moving contest. The contest invites students to create new motivational sayings about America, creating a win-win for everyone.

Krista and Jason have been best friends since preschool. It never mattered that he was a boy with reddish-brown hair and she was the “Korean girl” at school. Now in fifth grade, everyone in their class is preparing their Heritage Month projects. Jason has always loved Krista’s Korean family, and particularly their cooking, but Krista is conflicted about being her school’s “Korean Ambassador”. She’s also worried about asking her intimidating grandma to teach the class how to make their traditional kimbap dish.

When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in time and discover the words of Miguel de Cervantes. But at Still Waters in a Storm, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids have pushed together tables piled high with books so they can gather round to talk about and translate Cervantes’ classic, Don Quixote de La Mancha. They begin to reimagine Don Quixote as the story of a group of modern-day kids from immigrant families in Brooklyn.

Husband-and-wife team Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel create a sequel to the enormously popular Travels with My Family and On the Road Again! - but with a twist. This time Charlie and his family stay home, and find adventure in their own Montreal neighborhood.

Katie Sandwina was the strongest woman the world had ever seen. In her circus performances, she bent steel bars, broke chains, and carried a cannon! She could lift men with one hand and twirl them around! In an era when “proper ladies” were expected to be helpless and frail, Katie showed everyone that women could be powerful. She also spoke up for women’s equality and the right to vote.