Clara Barton

The second book from Dr. Maria Uribe, a Senior Instructor at the University of Colorado Denver in the School of Education & Human Development, Is There Something Wrong With Me? provides concrete examples of micro-aggressions and discrimination--rooted in race, ethnicity, and gender--that children face. Designed to elicit empathy and conversation about identity and belonging, the book further suggests at-home and classroom activities to dismantle social bias.

"Simple text and photographs present what happens to the weather, animals and plants in summer--in both English and Spanish"--T.p. verso.

Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932) entró en el mundo literario forzado por unas circunstancias adversas que dieron un vuelco radical a su vida. Joven propietario de un banco de Praga, provocador de escándalos, duelista, estudioso del ocultismo, fue víctima de una confabulación que estuvo a punto de costarle la libertad y la salud al ser acusado de desfalco. Por fortuna se declaró su inocencia, y poco después tuvo que hacer pública su bancarrota. La literatura se convirtió entonces en su refugio y en un precario medio de vida. En su obra, Meyrink vertió no sólo sus profundos conocimientos de ...

In 1991, preparation for the construction of a new federal office building led to a startling discovery: a skeleton. Further excavation exposed the bones of 420 men, women, and children. This area of New York had been a burial ground set aside for both free and enslaved Africans during the 1600s and 1700s. It’s thought to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. This noteworthy book—which includes sidebars, fact boxes, a timeline, and maps—fills in the gaps of history books, exposing much about what life was like in colonial New York for Africans.