My Yellow Umbrella / Mi Paraguas Amarillo

Born in 1927 in Yuma, Arizona, César Chavez lived the hard-scrabble life of a migrant worker during the Depression. Although his mother wanted him to get an education, César left school after eighth grade to work. He grew to be a charismatic leader and founded the National Farm Workers Association, an organization that fought for basic rights for farm workers. In powerful poems and dramatic stylized illustrations, Carmen T. Bernier-Grand and David Díaz pay tribute to Chavez's legacy helping migrant workers improve their lives by doing things by themselves for themselves.

Experts agree that the first sentence of a book is fundamental. It provokes intrigue and curiosity, promises mysteries to be solved and hours of entertainment. If it works, it hooks us. In this book, the author writes 22 stories that start with the first sentences of famous novels, such as Rayuela, David Copperfield, El perfume, and La silla de plata, among others. Additionally, it reveals to the reader that words are not enough by themselves, but that, on occasion, they inspire more words.

Noah Z. Jones turns well-known fairy tales upside-down in this humorous new series! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. In the Land of Fake Believe, Princess meets a strange girl named Moldylocks. When Princess's stomach grumbles, Moldylocks takes her to the home of the Three Beards. The girls sit in the Beards' chairs, eat their chili, and jump on their beds. The Three Beards are not happy when they get home--and they are very, very hungry! Will Moldylocks and Princess go into the chili pot? With...

SANGRE DE DRAGÓN se inscribe como una de las mejores novelas de la literatura fantástica, es la llave para abrir la puerta hacia el mundo de Las Tierras Eternas donde la travesía de los guerreros y las batallas en contra de las criaturas del Señor de la Oscuridad mantienen la atención desde la primera página. Durante el viaje, Argos y sus compañeros deben vencer múltiples obstáculos ya sea enfrentando a los malvados licantros y estirges o ingresando a lugares prohibidos para obtener ayudas mágicas de las hadas, de los dublicornios, de Oberón en la isla de las manzanas y de rocas...