En 1961, dos años después de la revolución comunista cubana, Lucía Álvarez sigue viviendo una vida normal de adolescente, soñando con fiestas y su primer enamoramiento. Pero las cosas en su país están cambiando. Las libertades están siendo despojadas. Los vecinos desaparecen. Sus amigos se sienten extraños. Y su familia está siendo vigilada.
A medida que el impacto de la revolución se vuelve más opresivo, los padres de Lucía toman la desgarradora decisión de enviarla a ella y a su hermano pequeño a los Estados Unidos, a través de un movimiento secreto y clandestino para salvar a los niños.
Al llegar a Estados Unidos, Lucía es enviada a vivir con extraños bien intencionados en Nebraska, pero lucha por adaptarse a un nuevo país, a un nuevo idioma, a una nueva forma de vida. ¿Y qué pasa con su antigua vida? ¿Volverá a ver a sus padres, a sus amigos o a su país? Y si lo hace, ¿seguirá siendo la misma chica?
Basada en los hechos reales de la Operación Pedro Pan, en la que más de 14.000 niños cubanos fueron enviados a Estados Unidos en el período de dos años comprendido entre 1960 y 1962, y en la propia experiencia familiar de la autora, esta novela describe el dolor de la pérdida de la patria y muestra la generosidad del espíritu estadounidense.
Esta nueva edición del diccionario se ha enriquecido en varios aspectos. En primer lugar, adopta la nomenclatura gramatical y de categorización empleada por el Diccionario de la Real Academia Española. Sus términos y respectivos significados han sido revisados según los requerimientos vigentes. Contiene más de 40 mil voces que incorpora chilenismos y americanismos, así como numerosos neologismos. Además, se focaliza en emplear una metodología vigente en técnicas lexicográficas contemporáneas y acordes a las necesidades de los hablantes. Finalmente, se le da un trato especial a los gentilicios, los cuales se han agrupado en una lista que contiene tanto aquellos de comunas y provincias de Chile, como de los principales y países y capitales del mundo.
La gente vive, trabaja y se divierte en comunidades. Las comunidades suburbanas están cerca de las grande ciudades. Aprende cómo es este tipo de comunidad.
Two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry has crafted a beautiful picture book about the power of longing and the importance of reconnection between a girl and her father in post-WWII America.
This is the story of young Liz, her father, and their strained relationship. Dad has been away at WWII for longer than she can remember, and they begin their journey of reconnection through a hunting shirt, cherry pie, tender conversation, and the crow call. This allegorical story shows how, like the birds gathering above, the relationship between the girl and her father is graced with the chance to fly.
A child-friendly story about the trials and triumphs of starting over in a new place while keeping family and traditions close.
When Hee Jun’s family moves from Korea to West Virginia, he struggles to adjust to his new home. His eyes are not big and round like his classmates’, and he can’t understand anything the teacher says, even when she speaks s-l-o-w-l-y and loudly at him. As he lies in bed at night, the sky seems smaller and darker. But little by little Hee Jun begins to learn English words and make friends on the playground. And one day he is invited to a classmate’s house, where he sees a flower he knows from his garden in Korea — mugunghwa, or rose of Sharon, as his friend tells him — and Hee Jun is happy to bring a shoot to his grandmother to plant a “piece of home” in their new garden. Lyrical prose and lovely illustrations combine in a gentle, realistic story about finding connections in an unfamiliar world.
Even monsters need to eat their vegetables! This wry and funny story might inspire a few veggie monsters to give peas a chance.
When a single pea touches the lips of this determined vegetable hater, our hero doesn't cry, whine, or refuse to swallow. He turns into a VEGGIE MONSTER!
Ready to smash the chairs! Ready to tip the table! Ready to . . . GULP . . . down his peas?
With inventive mixed-media illustrations and a short, snappy text that combines a child's dinnertime drama with a hilarious parents'-eye-view, this is the perfect book to read with kids to get them to eat their vegetables.
Many people have helped the United States become a great country. In this book, the author writes about the pleople she considers to be among the greatest Americans.
Animal-rights defender Little Green Riding Hood is on her way to visit her rabbit-hunting granny who lives in the woods. Meanwhile, Mr.Wolf, who recently became a vegetarian, is on a mission to expose the contents of a mysterious sack.
Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
A lovable dog helps his human girl solve a mystery. King and Kayla are playing fetch with their friends, Jillian and Thor. Jillian throws King's favorite ball too hard, and now it's gone missing! King and Kayla must put together the clues to figure out where it went―and who has it.
From the power plant to your house, electricity is on the move. In rhythmic text, Anastasia Suen breaks down the complex subject of electricity to its essential parts.
Paul Carrick’s three-dimensional illustrations help shed light on the subject.
In this entertaining, bilingual exploration of language, children are introduced to a second language and get a glimpse of another culture. VE LO QUE DICES/SEE WHAT YOU SAY explores the ways two different cultures view their own languages through familiar idioms. Sometimes the words we use have a different meaning from what we say. For instance, if a person becomes hasty and does things out of order, in English we say he has put the cart before the horse. In Spanish he is starting to build the house at the roof. Although they mean the same thing, the literal sense of these phrases is quite different. In VE LO QUE DICES/SEE WHAT YOU SAY, these contrasting expressions become charming and vivid vignettes.
Nancy María Grande Tabor’s signature cut paper illustrations are remarkable in their three-dimensional quality and light-hearted presentation of some very off-the-wall phrases. Children and adults alike will have a great time guessing what idiom each illustration represents.
Just as hola and bonjour express “hello” in different ways, fractions, decimals, and percents describe the same quantities in different ways. While it may sound simple, this basic math concept often baffles children. The straightforward text and photographic examples from everyday life in PIECE=PART=PORTION are a terrific boon to elementary school math students everywhere.
Wagner has been fooled by just about everyone this April Fools’ Day–his best friend Pearl, his teacher, and even the librarian. Tired of being on the receiving end of all the pranks, Wagner is determined to have the last laugh. This easy-to-read installment of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor-winning Pearl and Wagner series promises a whole lot of giggles for young readers!
Award-winning author Grace Lin joins science writer Ranida T. McKneally to get kids talking about the science of food, the five food groups, and what a healthy meal looks like. Answering questions like “why are so many vegetables green?”, “What’s the difference between brown bread and white bread?”, and “Why do beans make you gassy?”, cheerful haiku poems and a simple Q&A format make this book a nutritious treat.
The information in this book aligns with both the USDA’s MyPlate guidelines and the Harvard School of Public Health’s Healthy Eating Plate guidelines and back matter includes further information about healthy eating and nutritional guidelines, as well as a glossary.
Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it’s made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist?
This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees couldn’t survive without the help of a menagerie of rain forest critters: a pollen-sucking midge, an aphid-munching anole lizard, brain-eating coffin fly maggots—they all pitch in to help the cocoa tree survive. A secondary layer of text delves deeper into statements such as “Cocoa flowers can’t bloom without cocoa leaves . . . and maggots,” explaining the interdependence of the plants and animals in the tropical rain forests. Two wise-cracking bookworms appear on every page, adding humor and further commentary, making this book accessible to readers of different ages and reading levels.
Back matter includes information about cocoa farming and rain forest preservation, as well as an author’s note.
Surprise! The little red chicken is back — and as endearingly silly as ever — in David Ezra Stein’s follow-up to the Caldecott Honor–winning Interrupting Chicken.
It’s homework time for the little red chicken, who has just learned about something every good story should have: an elephant of surprise. Or could it be an element of surprise (as her amused papa explains)? As they dive in to story after story, looking for the part that makes a reader say “Whoa! I didn’t know that was going to happen,” Papa is sure he can convince Chicken he’s right. After all, there are definitelyno elephants in “The Ugly Duckling,” “Rapunzel,” or “The Little Mermaid” — or are there? Elephant or element, something unexpected awaits Papa in every story, but a surprise may be in store for the little red chicken as well. Full of the same boisterous charm that made Interrupting Chicken so beloved by readers, this gleeful follow-up is sure to delight fans of stories, surprises, and elephants a like.