Un montón de hojas (The Leaf Pile)

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.

Learn how light pollution prevents us from seeing the stars and causes other problems as well. This Spanish book features a hands-on STEAM challenge that gives insight into how the engineering design process is used to solve real-world problems.

En este breve libro, que no breviario, cabalgan hermanadas la poesía japonesa occidentalizada, vale decir el haiku y el senryu, que en apenas diecisiete silabas divididas en tres versos sin rima expresa diversos sentimientos; la glosa, el soneto, el madrigal y el poema libre, realengo, que no atiende las estrictas normas de la métrica. Cabalgan también cómodamente, en su carruaje poético, los recuerdos únicos de la tierra que me vio nacer, Marabal, donde quedó sembrado mi espíritu y que muchas veces visito en sueños, repetitivos, de añoranza, de arrepentimiento por el abandono, de...

It s fun to find ways I m like you and you re like me. It s fun to find ways we re different. In this colorful, inviting English-Spanish book, kids from preschool to lower elementary learn about diversity in terms they can understand: hair that s straight or curly, families with many people or few, bodies that are big or small. With its wide-ranging examples and fun, highly detailed art, "I m Like You, You re Like Me/ Yo soy como tu, tu eres como yo" helps kids appreciate the ways they are alike and affirm their individual differences. A section for adults in the back provides tips and...