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Combine valuable fifth grade math and literacy skills in a purposeful way with the Spanish-translated math reader El regalo de cumpleaños del abuelo (Grandpa's Birthday Present). Focusing on the critical skills that 5th graders need to know to advance to the next level, this book incorporates key concepts into an engaging text that showcases math skills needed to create a budget and calculate sale prices. This high-interest nonfiction reader introduces how to convert percentages, decimals, and fractions. Filled with mathematical charts, diagrams, and practice problems, the text features in...

During the American Civil War, the United States was on the brink of falling apart irrevocably. As states seceded and brother turned against brother, hope for reconciliation was dim. This conflict, an essential topic of the social studies curriculum, is skillfully presented from its origins in the Southern slave-trade economy to bloody battles and, later, Reconstruction. Striking photographs and artwork of integral events and people will resonate with readers, while interesting sidebar information gives them more to reflect on about this terrible war and the lessons it taught us.

La oscuridad ha caído sobre el reino de Eala, la muerte inminente arrasa todo a su paso y ni la magia más poderosa ni los conjuros más legendarios de los mismos reyes elementales pueden salvar al reino de su destino. El último recurso ha sido convocado, el rechazado herrero-mago Hefes, para que en compañía del bufón de corte Cerín y del mismo rey de los Gnomos Met, busquen y traigan de vuelta el astrolabio de las hadas, único instrumento que puede restaurar la magia y la vida. Así, inicia una aventura llena de enemigos poderosos en cada esquina y de grandes hazañas. En esta...

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...