Estaciones (Seasons)

How are crayons made? Clear wax is melted in a factory. Once it's melted, color is added to it, it is poured into crayon-shaped molds, cooled, and wrapped in a paper label. Sorted into sets, the brightly colored crayons are boxed and sent in trucks to stores to be sold to you.

Imagine traveling at half the speed of a jet plane without ever leaving the ground! Students will discover the technology that makes such speeds possible, from special tracks and safety precautions to aerodynamically designed trains. What are the limits to the speed of trains? What imposes those limits? Students also will read about the future of passenger train travel, from flying trains to trains that use huge magnets to levitate inches or centimeters off the track. Some trains safely reach speeds of more than 200 mph!

What better way to portray bioluminescent creatures of the sea, earth, and sky than in a glow-in-the-dark book? Scientific researcher María Emilia Beyer reveals the truth about these animals that produce their own light using special substances, as well as how they use this ability to search for food, defend themselves from prey, communicate, and find a mate. Readers will find eight species of bioluminescent plants and animals and can turn out the lights to see them in all their splendor--and read special hidden text!

El padre de Ki-Fer está herido y nadie sabe cómo curarlo. La única esperanza es el Agua de la Vida. Las leyendas cuentan que un guerrero la encontró hace muchos años, pero no se sabe dónde. ¿Podrá Ki-Fer encontrar el camino para llegar a ella? Una novela que refleja el arduo camino de la maduración personal.

Se concitan en estos relatos en prosa poética, La Séptima Vida, las escalas de una mirada interior de supervivencia, desde la celebración del vínculo con el otro hasta el sentido de la pérdida. Restos de naufragios de la dicha y su privación de un yo plural de voces. Se trata de una escritura que se traslada al espacio en blanco como si uno estuviera “a punto de ser abatido”. Pedro como sucede en la ontología del flamenco, desde una secreta alegría del dolor trascendido.