La búsqueda de la velocidad: Los vehículos (The Quest for Speed: Vehicles) (Spanish Version)

Readers will be amazed to discover that every time they climb onto bicycles and ride like the wind, they are defying gravity! This book explains the physics and history behind bicycles, skateboards, and surfboards. Readers learn what happens from the simplest movement of rolling forward to more complex tricks and stunts of jumping and spinning. Readers will never look at bikes, skateboards or surfboards the same way again.

Readers may never expect that they might free fall to Earth, but if they have ever dived into a pool, that's exactly what they've done. This book shows readers how Newton's three laws of motion affect divers, skydivers, and mountain climbers' movements. Readers discover who uses gravity, and who works against it, and all other forces that contribute to a successful dive or climb. After reading this book, readers can decide if they will ever be interested in engaging in one of these extreme sports.

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

Invite readers along on the preparations for a soccer tournament! With informational, Spanish-translated text, vibrant photos and charts, children are engaged from cover to cover while utilizing mathematical skills to increase understanding of all aspects of soccer, including sportsmanship and tournaments.

In each book in this series, a boy speaks about one of four dinosaurs. The text stimulates the reader’s imagination and considers the characteristics of each dinosaur, highlighting the features that distinguish it from the others.

¿Por qué hay que masticar con la boca cerrada?. Descubre cómo los buenos modales convierten las horas de las comidas en momentos agradables para todos.

Cuando llegan a este mundo, los niños tienen derecho a recibir afecto, una alimentación saludable, a acudir a una escuela abierta a la vida... Ahora bien, ¿de qué servirá todo eso si no tienen derecho también a disfrutar de un planeta saludable? Por eso tienen todo el derecho a decir "¡Basta!", para que por fin lo dejen de maltratar.

Silenciosa y tímida, Marina es la cuarta de siete hermanos y siempre tiene la impresión de que en su casa no saben ni que existe. Un verano, su familia decide pasar las vacaciones en un pueblo remoto que, de tan tranquilo, es un completo aburrimiento. En ocasiones la vida ofrece una segunda oportunidad para superarse a si mismo. Una historia sobre el crecimiento personal y el valor para afrontar las dificultades de la vida.