Cuerpo de Marines de Los Estados Unidos

Little readers will learn all about what teachers do, where they work, and why they are important in our communities. Very simple text combined with correlating and colorful images will both inform and strengthen reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

This title looks at one of the tiniest and cutest species of chameleon. Readers will learn more about the leaf chameleon's size, where it lives, what it likes to eat, and even compare it to regular-sized chameleon species. Complete with adorable and colorful photographs that support the simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.

Readers will learn about one of their favorite farm animals--pigs! This title is informative--telling readers what pigs eat, what they look like, and how we use pig products every day. The text is very simple, which will reinforce early reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

Heredero de la gran tradición norteamericana en narrativa de terror, que nace con E.A. Poe y pasa por H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King ha logrado con sus obras una difusión jamás alcanzada por ningún otro autor en este género, dotándolo de una vitalidad envidiable. Danza Macabra (1981) es un lúcido y divertido ensayo, lleno de referencias a multitud de obras y jugosas anécdotas biográficas, que pretende dar respuesta a la paradoja esencial del aficionado a la ficción de terror: «¿Por qué hay personas dispuestas a pagar a cambio de sentirse extremadamente incómodas?» Y para abordar...

María José grieves at the loss of her mother who died in childbirth. She has difficulty sharing her feelings with her father and the distance between them grows with the appearance of a new woman. Her father gets another job which forces them to move to another neighborhood. The new house is small, but is near an ice cream store owned by Mr. Beto. In the store, María José makes friends with girls and boys her own age, but also meets Mr. Beto and his friends. María José and her friends try to help Mr. Beto when he comes down with a sudden illness.

When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from cash-strapped France in 1803, he doubled the size of the United States without really knowing what he was getting. He dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery to explore a territory that would include part or all of fifteen future states and to seek a water route to the West Coast. Westward expansion began immediately, all for the bargain price of 15 million dollars. This book richly explores this fascinating part of history.

Por primera vez en español se presenta una amplia muestra de la poesía coreana contemporánea. Un cuerpo poético íntimamente vinculado a la naturaleza, cuyo predominio temático con la soledad, la meditación, la contemplación de los misterios de lo cotidiano y del mundo. Han Yung Un (1879-1944) es uno de los poetas más apreciados de la literatura moderna coreana. En él se funden el renovador del espíritu poético de una época y el apasionado independentista opuesto a la dominación japonesa.