Cómo funcionan los juguetes (How Toys Work)

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.

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.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: 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!

Gente que hay que conocer is a series of biographies designed for beginning readers. Each book introduces one of the most important individuals in recent times and explains what makes her or him so remarkable. People We Should Know, a companion English-language edition, is also available.

La vida en el reventón es una obra tan diferente y original que su lectura es en sí misma una fiesta llena de diversión sobre el ambiente ''antro''. Trixia Valle, una reconocida escritora, especialista y publirrelacionista internacional, tiene el toque para lograr que incluso los temas más serios, como el alcohol, las drogas, las relaciones pre-matrimoniales, el materialismo, los desórdenes alimenticios, etc., mantengan el mismo tono ameno y gracioso.

La quinta de Laura es una colección póstuma de novelas cortas de Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, el autor de relatos breves más prolífico del siglo XVII. Compuso cincuenta y seis novelas cortas que se publicaron, de forma casi ininterrumpida, entre 1625 y 1649. Su abundante producción le convierte en uno de los representantes más significativos del género en España. Siguiendo el modelo del Decamerón de Boccaccio, La quinta de Laura reúne a la hija del conde Anselmo y a sus damas de compañía que la entretienen narrando por turno una historia. Sus relatos, tan amenos como diversos,...

Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it.