Los desiertos (Deserts) 6-Pack

A forest is unlike any other biome on Earth. There are many life cycles found within a forest. Learn about the energy pyramid that explains the numbers of forest plants and animals. Learn about threats to these lively forests and how they thrive and survive in this Spanish-translated text!

This is a story of three characters--Noah, Joyce, and the anonymous narrator--as each leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own personal songs of migration. All three end up in Montreal, each on his or her voyage of selfdiscovery, each compelled to deal with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree. Filled with humor, charm, and marvelous storytelling, this novel links cartography, garbage-obsessed archeologists, pirates past and present, a mysterious book with no cover, and a broken compass whose needle obstinately points to the Aleutian...

As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life. In 1859 Clara bought her own freedom and headed west to Colorado to find her daughter, who was sold when she was just a little girl. Clara didn't find her daughter there, but she did get rich. The people she helped became her family, and she became known as "Aunt" Clara Brown.

Un día de verano, debajo de un árbol, la hermana de Alicia estaba leyendo un libro. Alicia la escuchaba, pero era un libro muy aburrido. De repente pasó un conejo blanco con levita corriendo y gritando: "¡Se me hace tarde!". Con el pretexto de alejarse de ahí, Alicia siguió al curioso conejo. Y así comienza una larga serie de aventuras en El País de las Maravillas... One summer day, under a tree, Alicia's sister was reading a book. Alicia listened to her, but it was a very boring book. She suddenly passed a white rabbit in a frock running and yelling: "I'm late!" On the pretext of...

Who were the earliest Americans? When, how, and from where did they enter and spread across the continent? And what is their relationship to modern Native Americans? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theories—and the discoveries that prove and disprove them—are highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts and incredible breakthroughs. Readers will feel like anthropologists and archaeologists themselves as they read about bones and artifacts, and what they reveal about the ancient cultures that roamed...