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Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love--self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural--is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a promise kept," as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions...
Author
Publisher
37 Ink / Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Multiple
Description
"Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling...
Publisher
Parragon
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Este antología recoge cuentos y rimos tanto tradicionales como de nuevas creación, que no sólo harán las delicias de los niñas, sino también del adulto que se los lea.--Back cover.
Three hundred and sixty-five tales, stories, and rhymes one for each day of the year for girls.
Author
Publisher
Whispering Coyote
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
An expanded version of the nineteenth-century poem by Jane Taylor, in which a small girl accompanies a star on a journey through the night sky, examining both heavenly bodies and the earth below.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Inspired by Disney's film Encanto, this brightly illustrated and enchanting picture book illustrates the hit song We Don't Talk About Bruno. With the lyrics as the content of the book, the text will work playfully with the art to bring it to life"--
9) Magyk
Author
Series
Septimus Heap volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
Español
Description
After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.
11) Eragon
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial de Libros
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
Español
Description
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Author
Publisher
Norma Editorial
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Español
Description
Tohru Honda was an orphan when one day fate kicked her out of the house and on to land belonging to the mysterious Sohma family. Everything goes well until she discovers the Sohma family's secret, when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal!
Author
Series
Serie Harry Potter volume 6
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
Español
Description
Sixth-year Hogwarts student Harry Potter gains valuable insights into the boy Voldemort once was, even as his own world is transformed by maturing friendships, schoolwork assistance from an unexpected source, and devastating losses.
Author
Series
Scooby-Doo mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Cuando se pincha la llanta de la Máquina del Misterio, el único lugar donde se puede pedir ayuda es un siniestro y viejo castillo. El dueño del castillo tiene invitados a cenar y también invita a toda la pandilla. De repente aparece un fantasma! El perro Scooby-Doo y sus amigos tienen que llegar hasta el fondo de este misterio.
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