Madre Tierra, nuestro hogar

A stinky look at the history of personal hygiene reveals fascinating facts, such as the invention of the toilet, how many times Queen Elizabeth I had a bath, how the first sewers were built, and much more.

Book Features: • Ages 5-8, Grades K-2 • 24 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches • Simple, easy-to-read pages in Spanish with full-color pictures • Includes a glossary, index, and an engineering design activity • Supports NGSS Digging Up Facts: In Mi Biblioteca de Ingeniería: Diseño y Construcción en la Tierra, kindergarten—second graders learn about what engineers have to think about in order to build houses and other important structures in the dirt. Engineering Made Fun: Dirt is under everything that people build from the ground up. Young readers learn how engineers dig, move, and...

In this imaginative novel, Philip Roth converts the status of baseball from a national myth and pastime into the basis for biting satire, replete with heroism and treachery, wordplay, and an unforgettable cast of characters. Locked away in an asylum, once-famous sports journalist Word Smith attempts to write the great American novel through the story of one of the United States most celebrated baseball teams. The team s epic feats in the now-defunct Patriot League were soon forgotten after when, in the mid-1940s, Communist conspiracy infiltrated the heart of the United States in an effort to...

Mateo Chamero es un niño obeso de ocho años al que su madre quiere obligar a adelgazar. Su compañera de pupitre, Ana, está muy enferma. Mateo quiere ayudarla, pero no sabe cómo. ¿Encontrará el modo de hacerlo? Una estupenda historia que resalta los valores de la amistad y la superación de dificultades.