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1) Los trenes
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Choo Choo! Kids love trains! Especially the old-timey steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos. But what about a super-speeder in Japan that zooms on the track at 361 miles per hour? Or the world's longest freight train, stretching on for a whopping 4.6 miles? Or futuristic railways in the sky? In this level 1 reader, young readers will discover a whole new way of looking at trains! National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
¿Sabía usted que John Adams tuvo que engatusar a Thomas Jefferson en la escritura de la Declaración de Independencia? El hombre de Estado de Virginia tímido se rechazó al principio, pero entonces continuó a escribir uno de nuestros documentos nacionales más importantes e inspiradores. El tercer presidente estadounidense, Jefferson era también un arquitecto, el inventor, el músico, el agricultor, y - que es seguramente la mayor parte de aspecto...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Sixto Torres narrates his journey from childhood in Mexico to his emigration to the Rio Grande Valley. Eventually, in order to support his growing family, he joins the migrant stream to California. He and his family arrive in Salinas in early 1970 just as Ceþsar Chavez is challenging the power of the Valley's growers. A natural leader, Sixto joins the farmworkers' struggle for better wages and greater power over their living conditions, but he is...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Una historia arrolladora, cuidadosamente revisada y actualizada, de la experiencia latina en Estados Unidos. Es la primera reedición en diez años de este importante estudio sobre los latinos en la historia de Estados Unidos. La cosecha del imperio cubre un periodo de cinco siglos, desde las primeras colonias en el Nuevo Mundo, hasta la primera década del nuevo milenio. Hoy en dia, los latinos representan el grupo minoritario más grande en Estados...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Luisiana, 1875. En la tumultuosa Era de la Reconstrucción, tres jóvenes parten juntas en una arriesgada misión: Hannie, una esclava liberada; Lavinia, la consentida heredera de una plantación que le ha sido arrebatada; y Juneau Jane, la hermanastra mestiza de Lavinia. Cada una de ellas carga con sus propias heridas y guarda profundos secretos, mientras emprenden un viaje a Texas a través de carreteras llenas de justicieros y soldados que todavía...
11) The 20th century
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Brings the 20th century back to life through narration, rare photographs and stunning footage.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Bill of Rights, Quakers and abolition, the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Susan B. Anthony, and the Emancipation Proclamation.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--
"El concepto de raza siempre se ha utilizado para ganar y mantener el poder, para crear dinámicas que separan y silencian. Esta notable adaptación del libro Stamped from the Beginning, del Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, ganador del National Book Award, revela la historia de las ideas racistas...
14) Cold Mountain
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Scarlett is a woman who is strong and has vitality. She deals with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, and the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Ashley Wilkes is the man she has wanted for so long, but he is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. At a Twelve Oaks barbeque, Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself. There she meets Rhett Butler. That is the first day of the Civil War....
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