¡Mira, un tiburón! (Look, a Shark!)

Touchdown! In this book, beginning readers are introduced to the football field, rules of play, and football equipment and gear. High-frequency words and repetitive sentence patterns work together with strong visual references to support the earliest readers and create a fun first nonfiction reading experience. Football includes Tools for Teachers and Caregivers, a Let's Review! question and image, and introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, and an index. Football is part of Jump!'s Let's Play Sports! series.

In Planes, emergent readers learn about planes and how theyre used as a mode of transportation. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once.

¡Los doctores saben muchas cosas sobre la salud y el cuerpo humano! Al examinar a los pacientes y recetar medicamentos, los médicos pueden averiguar qué está enfermando a una persona y cómo hacer que se sienta mejor. Ahora en español, este título involucra a los lectores jóvenes para aprender cómo los médicos sirven a su comunidad. Las preguntas de pensamiento crítico apropiadas para la edad y un glosario de fotos ayudan a desarrollar habilidades de aprendizaje de no ficción. Doctors know many things about health and the human body! By examining patients and prescribing medicine,...

Biografía de Azucena Villaflor es un material indispensable para quien quiera conocer detalles del origen de Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Del origen contado por sus propias protagonistas. Y para conocer a Azucena desde tres generaciones anteriores. Pero sobre todo, para recorrer al lado de ella los días tremendos desde el 30 de noviembre de 1976 cuando la dictadura secuestra a su hijo Néstor, hasta que es arrojada desde un avión de la Marina, con vida, al mar.

Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous scientist in his own right. Although he was diagnosed with a neurological disease at age 21, Stephen did not let the illness define his life. Known for his groundbreaking work in physics, and identified by his wheelchair and computerized voice system, Stephen continued...

Maria Zef no llega a los 15 años, pero ya está acostumbrada a la dureza de la vida en el campo, un mundo de hombres frente al que chocará su espíritu soñador y libre. Tres mujeres en un camino de la Italia rural: una madre exhausta y enferma y sus dos hijas, niñas todavía. Maria Zef, la hija mayor, tira, como si fuera una bestia, de un carromato cargado de cacharros en venta al tiempo que vigila constantemente para que su madre siga en pie. Como cada año, han bajado de las montañas en las que viven antes de que la nieve las inmovilice allí durante meses de frío y pobreza. El viaje...

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...