Florence Nightingale

Solar Energy Is Explained. Included In This Book Is Where It Comes From, Who Uses It, And The Positive And Negative Benefits Of Using It. Correlated To Common Core, Texas TEKS, Virginia Sols, And Georgia Performance Standards.

Follows the life and career of the French scientist who proved the existence of germs and their connection with diseases.

Defines pulleys, explains their functions, and suggests simple experiments to demonstrate how they work.

Roberto Clemente is remembered as a one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived, but more than that, he was also a man who believed in equality for all. Readers will learn about his incredible life in this inspiring, Spanish-translated nonfiction biographical title. Children will enthusiastically want to learn all they can about Roberto's amazing life as the first Puerto Rican in major league baseball through vibrant images, intriguing facts, a helpful timeline, and a glossary that will assist in vocabulary improvement.

Raíces es un libro de poemas, aforismos y prosas que aborda algunos de los grandes temas de la historia poética: amor, sueños, infancia, la mirada y la lectura. Este libro es el resultado del trabajo y el compromiso de Asier Aldea Esnaola por retratar literariamente sus pasiones e inquietudes juveniles con un estilo inspirado por los poetas de antaño. “El buen libro se lee susurrándoselo al escritor. No importa si ya ha muerto, si vive, si alguna vez coincidieron, o si no; es indiferente. El lector se lo imagina a su lado, muy pegado, escuchándole atento, curioso, tan real como el...

Lorenzo, a quien ya conocimos gracias a Diario de un cazador, reemprende su diario tras haberse casado con la Anita. Ahora, unos tíos de ella, residentes en Santiago de Chile, los animan a probar fortuna en América, ofreciéndoles hogar y trabajo. A través de las cómicas anotaciones de Lorenzo, Miguel Delibes nos describe —con desenfadada llaneza y una buena dosis de malicia— los cotidianos incidentes de la pareja, llena de sueños e ilusiones, alternando el relato de las peripecias en Chile con un fino y sagaz análisis psicológico de sus sentimientos de recién casados, de sus...

Provides encouragement and advice for facing life's challenges, just for girls, with blank spaces to fill in goals and accomplishments.