El ferrocarril transcontinental (The Transcontinental Railroad)

People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.

Abdel es un joven tuareg acostumbrado a la vida nómada. Todo va a cambiar el día en que su padre, Yasir, decide abandonar el desierto y viajar a España. Atravesar Marruecos no será fácil, y mucho menos cruzar el estrecho de Gibraltar. Sin embargo, hay que intentarlo si eso supone alcanzar la libertad, aunque tengan que ocultarse.Ahora que comienza una nueva vida en España, no todo es tan fácil como parecía.

¿Cómo es tener a una profetisa como abuela? Ella Robinson lo sabe. Su abuela era Elena de White. En este libro, Ella cuenta cómo era Elena de White como abuela y como persona. Aunque Dios le dio grandes responsabilidades a la Sra. White, aun así encontraba tiempo para ser la clase de abuela con la que cualquier niña soñaría. Sabía que una niñita cansada disfrutaría de una manzana, una pastilla de menta o de ser ayudada a recortar una ilustración de una revista. Robinson también relata experiencias interesantes de la vida de la Sra. White. Cuenta cómo Dios escogió a Elena de...

When they were teenagers, George and Natalia fell madly in love, but his being American and her being Spanish forced them to separate. Ten years later, they meet again and those feelings resurface with overwhelming force. Nat, aware of her difficult personal situation, refuses to give love a chance, but George is not ready to lose the woman he has always loved.

The jaguar is a ferocious animal that roams in areas of dense vegetation. He is the keeper of the American forests. The jaguar is strong, beautiful, famous, vain and a lonely animal. Young readers will be delighted with the jaguar as they learn more about this cat and his habitat.