The song of the rooster brings up the sun but in due course the night comes to continue the cycle.

Story about dogs in engaged in every imaginable type of activity.

"Kya Clark is the 'Marsh Girl' of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. Drawn to two young men from town who were intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opened herself to a new and startling world--until the unthinkable happens. When Chase...

"The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readable, well-researched...

A brother and sister and their teddy bear go through the house gathering items they will need for their siesta in the back yard. A blue backpack. Una mochila azul. Empty! A brother and sister, un hermano y una hermana, and their little bear, un osito. Sleepy! But there are so many things to gather -- and so much to be done! Come join the fun -- in English and Spanish -- and make an ordinary afternoon extraordinary.

Dragón se siente solo. Sale a buscar un amigo, ¡y una manzana le cae encima! Entonces, una culebra le juega una broma. ¿Podrán Dragón y la manzana ser amigos? When an apple falls on lonely Dragon's head, he is convinced he has found a friend, but a visit to the doctor reveals apple will not be a suitable friend.

While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City. "¿Y qué tal si los pájaros me alzaran y me llevaran volando por encima del parque? ¿Qué pasaría si yo volara? ¡Claro que ella vuela! Y lleva consigo a su abuela y nos narra, en español sazonado con algunas frases en inglés, este maravilloso viaje. Muchos de los lugares que visitan le recuerdan...

Describes how plants contribute to the water cycle through transpiration, how water trapped underground for thousands of years remains part of the water cycle, the importance of water to all living things, and the ways in which people can help protect Earth's water and keep it clean.

"Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que acá vivía mi padre, un tal Pedro Páramo. Mi madre me lo dijo. Y yo le prometí que vendría a verlo en cuanto ella muriera". Obra maestra del universo literario en español, esta portentosa novela mexicana narra la historia de Pedro Páramo, un caudillo local de quien dependen la vida y la muerte de un pueblo, Comala, y del hijo que va a buscarlo porque así se lo prometió a su madre moribunda. El narrador,...

"Ésta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvándose así de una existencia vulgar. Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra es un agudo testimonio de las dramáticas situaciones que se viven en ciertas regiones de América Latina, al tiempo que un canto de amor y de esperanza. Un conmovedor testimonio en el cual la autora no pretende denunciar lo ya sabido, sino mediante un exquisito arte de novelista...