Alma

A traditional Mexican folktale in which a faithful lizard finds the sun which brings light and warmth back to the world.

When Rosa and her little brother Benji move to a new neighborhood, they meet Mrs. Mayberry, who has created a clubhouse in her basement so the neighborhood children have a safe place to play. Includes factual information about America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth.

Lyndsey Duncan worries her career with the CIA might be over. After lines are crossed with another intelligence agent during an assignment, she is sent home to Washington on administrative leave. So when a former colleague - now Chief of the Russia Division - recruits her for an internal investigation, she jumps at the chance to prove herself. Lyndsey was once a top handler in the Moscow Field Station, where she was known as the "human lie detector"...

"In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, children are working together to harvest the vegetables they have grown and make them into a soup for everyone to share. But Kioni is having trouble: her herd of mischievous goats followed her to school today and they are trying to eat all the vegetables"--Amazon.com.

"Surviving the sinking of the Titanic, Annie takes a job as a nurse on the Britannic before encountering a fellow survivor who forces her to reckon with past demons."- Provided by publisher.

1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn't matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered...

"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled 'stupid'--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"-- Provided by publisher....

Atrévete a conocer Italia. Si alguna vez soñaste con ir a Italia, este libro es para ti. Aquí verás una pequeña muestra de su cultura y su literatura, harás un mágico viaje, por un territorio que es como un gran museo; con esculturas, monumentos, plazas y paisajes. Italia es una bota diseñada para deleitar todos los sentidos. El escritor piemontés Cesare Pavese dijo una vez: "A un país se le ama, se le quiere mucho aún cuando no se esté...

Este pequeño libro es para ti papá, mamá, abuelita(o), tío(a), hermano(a), prima(o), médico, terapeuta... que has considerado formar parte de esta red de apoyo al niño, joven o adulto discapacitado o con capacidades diferentes y limitaciones evidentes. Y has decidido amar más allá de lo ordinario, trabajando a veces de manera silenciosa, constante, valiente, incondicional, y sorprendente. Este libro está dirigido a aquellos héroes que no...

Nací para ser feliz nace con el fin de recopilar historias vividas en la niñez involucrando experiencias que narran la vivencia que ilustra simple y sencillamente la vida diaria. Aunque en todo el recorrido de la infancia y de acuerdo a lo que se refleja en este caminar encontramos diferentes experiencias que muestran momentos de tristeza y momentos de felicidad que motivan a vivir de acuerdo a cada posibilidad tratando de ser feliz. El trayecto...