Dinosaurios, colas y corazas

Introduce students to what it takes to be a good leader using this Spanish-translated nonfiction book. Engaging, primary source documents and images that support the text will inspire children to practice being a good leader! Early readers will build their literacy skills and social studies content knowledge while learning about leadership.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.

Muelle fue el primer grafitero de Madrid, una leyenda para todo el que pertenezca al mundillo del grafiti, que desafió a las autoridades atreviéndose a plasmar su inconfundible firma registrada incluso en la estatua del Oso y el Madroño. Spirit lo conoció. Por eso Luis, el protagonista de esta novela, le admira y quiere aprender de él. Aunque no pinte bien. Aunque a la chica que le gusta no le interesen los grafitis. Aunque al final la rivalidad entre pandas lo ensucie todo. Aunque el destino le tenga preparadas otras historias que ni se imagina.

For most of history, women have been confined to their households, and to lives without equal rights or equal opportunities. This volume introduces readers to the women of the suffrage movement, the defining movement for women’s rights, especially the right to vote. Primary sources and photographs will show readers firsthand how the challenges and successes of this movement shaped the lives of women across the United States. Readers will also learn about the inequality that still exists for women, and how they can change this injustice in the future.

Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.