Los sólidos (Solids)

Learn the secrets to artful cupcakes, oven-fresh bread, and other delicious baked goods in this delightful nonfiction title. Readers will learn how mathematics helps bakers measure their ingredients to make tasteful treats. Featuring vibrant images and charts, informative text, and fun, intriguing facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book will leave children fascinated by all the details that go into baking their favorite treats--like doughnuts and cookies!

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.

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.

Sed de dinero, aventuras y de desafíos. Ingenio, audacia y espíritu burleta. Conoce a los ladrones más perspicaces de la historia en este entretenido repaso de los grandes robos de los últimos dos siglos. Como dejó escrito Alberto Spaggiari en la cámara acorazada del Banco Société de Niza tras desvalijarla: " Sin armas, ni violencia y sin odio". Descubre a los protagonistas de golpes tan sonados como el asalto al tren de Glasgow o los robos a los bancos de Niza o Fortaleza. Las atractivas ilustraciones de Julio Antonio Blasco retratan a los personajes, recrean las escenas y ofrecen...

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory, and pain, of being Latino American. Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such...

Illustrated by an extraordinary artist and written with a close and intimate tone, El libro de los colores is an emotional journey. Teaching the practical use of paints to achieve desired tones, this book is an imaginative resource for artists of all ages.

La lluvia amarilla es el monólogo del último habitante de un pueblo abandonado del Pirineo aragonés. Entre «la lluvia amarilla» de las hojas del otoño que se equipara al fluir del tiempo y la memoria, o en la blancura alucinante de la nieve, la voz del narrador, a las puertas de la muerte, nos evoca a otros habitantes desaparecidos del pueblo, que lo abandonaron o murieron, y nos enfrenta a los extravíos de su mente y a las discontinuidades de su percepción en el villorio fantasma del que se ha enseñoreado la soledad. En el pueblo de Ainielle ya sólo quedan Andrés y Sabina. Poco a...