Sedes de los Juegos Olímpicos de verano (Hosting the Olympic Summer Games) (Spanish Version)

¿Sabías que los insectos palo se llaman ninfas cuando son jóvenes? Las ninfas cambian la piel cuando crecen. Aprende más datos fascinantes en Los insectos palo, uno de los libros de Insectos Fascinantes. Did you know that stick insects are called nymphs when they are young? Nymphs shed their skin as they grow. Learn more fascinating facts in Stick Insects, a Fascinating Insects book.

Take a trip to New Orleans with a young girl and her family as they attend one of the world's biggest parties: Mardi Gras! Learn all about the history of this fascinating festival as you practice subtraction strategies. This fiction math book combines math and literacy skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, engaging sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning subtraction strategies relevant and fun. Text features include a table of contents, glossary, and index to increase understanding of math and reading...

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and this book introduces readers to 14 women who invented very useful, helpful items. They include Chicago native Margaret Wilcox who invented the car heater, Indiana native Marion O'Brien Donovan who invented disposable diapers, Pennsylvania native Stephanie Kwolek who invented Kevlar, and Austria-born actress Hedy Lamar whose secret communications systems led to the creation of WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

Unas vacaciones con un desenlace inesperado, un equipo de ft︢bol de provincias humilde pero ambicioso, un reencuentro con el pasado en la ciudad de juventud: tres escenarios, tres familias. Tres viajes que sumergen al lector en los vn̕culos emocionales que rigen las relaciones entre los personajes. Los protagonistas de los relatos que componen este volumen ("Siempre hay un perro al acecho", "El fin de los buenos tiempos" y "La ley de la gravedad") estǹ marcados por secretos silenciados, por acusaciones reveladoras, por el amor y el implacable paso del tiempo.