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Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Though it was written more than 200 years ago, the first 10 amendments included in the Bill of Rights are still being interpreted today. Understanding how these additions to the Constitution came about is a key topic of the social studies curriculum, and it's also essential for understanding the modern political conversation. All readers can benefit from the concise explanation of why the Bill of Rights was written and what each amendment states....
Author
Publisher
Océano De México
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.
Iv?n es un poderoso pero tranquilo gorila...
Author
Publisher
Loqueleo
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies...
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Only Captain Underpants can stop the three evil space aliens who have invaded Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and turned everyone into lunchroom zombie nerds.
Derroto al diabolico DR. Panal textermino alos terribles inodoros parlantes..Y ahora lucha por su vida.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"When election season starts, the race is on! But what do campaigns, candidates, polls, and the Electoral College have to do with voting for our nation's leaders? Using engaging, age-appropriate language and colorful photos, readers decipher the complex electoral process and learn how to get involved in the next election. Fully translated Spanish text"--
7) Perro viejo
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Perro Viejo has been a slave in a sugar plantation for years. Old and tired, he often thinks of running far away. So, the old slave plans to help Aísa, a ten-year old escape.
Perro Viejo fue separado de su madre al nacer y no ha conocido otra vida que la de servidumbre en un ingenio azucarero. Su nombre, que significa "Perro Viejo", se lo dio el due?o de la plantaci?n porque, como los sabuesos que persegu?an a los esclavos fugitivos, Perro Viejo...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"George Calder, de diez años, está súper emocionado porque él y su hermanita Phoebe están en el famoso Titanic, cruzando el Atlántico junto a su tía Daisy. El barco está lleno de rincones fascinantes que explorar pero, cuando George se aventura en el compartimento de equipaje de primera clase, una terrible explosión sacude el barco. De repente, hay agua por todas partes y la vida de George cambia para siempre"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"De pronto Greg se descubre a sí mismo inmerso en la tensión de las fiestas de chicos y chicas, mayores responsabilidades y hasta los cambios fisiológicos propios de la edad. Todo ello sin poder contar con su mejor amigo, Rowley. ¿Podrá Greg salir adelante por sus propios medios? ¿O tendrá que rendirse ante La Horrible Realidad?"--P. [4] of cover.
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg...
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Durante las vacaciones de verano hace un tiempo fabuloso y todos los chicos se lo pasan al aire libre. ¿Y d?nde est? Greg Heffley? Encerrado en casa, con las cortinas cerradas, jugando con sus videojuegos. Greg, que reconoce ser una persona a la que le gusta estar en casa, vive sus vacaciones de verano so?adas: sin obligaciones y sin reglas. Pero su madre tiene una idea muy diferente de lo que debe ser un verano perfecto -- m?s relacionado con actividades...
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Seamos realistas: Greg Heffley nunca va a dejar de ser un renacuajo y alguien deber?a explic?rselo a su padre. Reulta que Frank Heffley cree que su hijo puede cambiar. Y para que se haga m?s fuerte, decide apuntarlo en todo tipo de deportes de competici?n y otras extividades "varoniles". Claro que para Greg siempre ha sido f?cil eludir los deseos de su padre. Sin embargo, cuando su padre lo amenaza con enviarlo a una academia militar, se da cuenta...
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Español
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Mexican-American Stef Soto is hoping to break free from her overprotective parents and embarrassing reputation from her family's taco truck business, but she soon learns that family, friendship, and the taco truck are important and wonderful parts of her life.
Estefania "Stef" Soto, sólo quiere ser una típica chica de séptimo grado. Quiere tener amigos, ser aceptada, y tener un poco de independencia de sus sobreprotectores padres inmigrantes....
Author
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Huérfano, relojero y ladrón, el muchacho Hugo vive entre los muros de una estación parisina de ferrocarriles. Si quiere sobrevivir, nadie debe saber de su existencia. Sin embargo, un día tiene un descuido y es descubierto por una excéntrica chica, amante de los libros, y por un viejo y amargado juguetero. Y ya nada será como antes. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931,...
Author
Series
Publisher
RBA/Lectorum
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Ser casi adolescente puede resultar muy fastidioso. Nadie lo sabe mejor que Greg Heffley, inmerso en el duro ambiente del colegio, donde los chicos bajitos que a?n no han pegado...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Jorge y Beto crean al mejor superh?roe de la historia de su escuela, y despu?s, hacen que cobre vida.
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"Mejor no preguntarle a Greg Heffley qu? tal lo ha pasado durante las vacaciones de verano, porque no quiere ni o?r hablar del asunto. De hecho, al empezar el nuevo curso Greg est? deseando olvidar los ?ltimos tres meses de su vida, en particular cierto acontecimiento ... Por desgracia para ?l, su hermano mayor, Rodrick, lo sabe todo sobre ese incidente que ?l querr?a enterrar para siempre. Y es que todos los secretos acaban saliendo a la luz ......
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Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and the god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Para concentrarse, o al menos esa es la versi?n oficial. Objeto de burlas por inventarse historias fant?sticas, ni siquiera ?l mismo acaba de cre?rselas hasta el d?a que los dioses del Olimpo le revelan la verdad: Percy es nada...
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