Synopsis: "Mujer fuerte, siempre en lucha contra la adversidad, Salome Urena inspiro una revolucion con su poesia y abrio el camino de la educacion para las mujeres de su pais. Ni en los momentos aciagos cedio en sus empenos, aunque intimamente se preguntara: que es la patria, que es esta idea de la nacion que empuja a tantos a dar la vida por su liberacion para que luego otros la vuelvan a encadenar?"

Synopsis: Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics. The collection begins with Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America," followed by Jermain Wesley Loguen's "I Am a Fugitive…

Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography.Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant…

Synopsis: Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.

Synopsis: Written entirely by teens, TeenInk uniquely captures the essence of what it means to be a teenager. This collection of prose and poetry represents the honest, forthright and compelling moments that define their lives. Pieces for this book were chosen from a base of more than 300,000 submissions to TeenInk magazine. In addition, more than 3,800 students in 42 states helped evaluate the final selections for the book. The power of TeenInk lies in…

Synopsis: This is an engaging story with a bit of romance about an American girl who goes to high school in Chile. While there, she meets two Chilean boys, a nice one and a mean one. Quick action must take place in order to save the mean boy's life.

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Synopsis: Introducción y antecedentes, aspectos generales, comentario y análisis, guiado, autoevaluación y bibliografía.

Synopsis: A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from…

Synopsis: The Daily Spark Series gives classroom teachers a dynamic way of delivering stimulating and effective exercises to get students motivated at the start of class. Each book in the series features 180 exercises, one for each day of the school year. These small, handy books are brightly designed for quick and easy reproduction. Each Daily Spark prompt is uniquely tailored for subject matter; while one may present a short problem, another may pose a…

Synopsis: La vida es sueno nos ayuda a entender el cuadro de las realidades ideales; nos permite ver no solo una problematica trascendente, sino una de las cumbres de belleza retorica del teatro universal.En tanto, El alcalde de Zalamea nos permite trazar un cuadro de las realidades sociales de la epoca del autor.Calderon de la Barca supo crear figuras incomparables, llenas de realidad y de vida, y hacer dialogar a sus protagonistas con sencillez y verdad…

Synopsis: Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future-United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment camp for Muslim-American citizens with her parents. With the help of newly-made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp's Director and his guards. Heart…

Synopsis: "Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again--p. 4 cover.

Synopsis: The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes…

Synopsis: In what ways are the branches of government like a basketball game? How can a school yard game's rules liken themselves to a constitution? Through engaging analogies and introductions, our new government series gets students ready for election 2008. Correlated to the fourth and fifth grade social studies curriculum, My American Government introduces students to how our government works. Students learn about the U.S. Constitution, the branches of…

Synopsis: When Mexican dictator, Santa Anna, discovers that thousands of U.S. citizens have spilled into the Mexican state of Texas and seized the Alamo, he is determined to expel or kill all of them. What will happen when Mexican Juan Seguín finds himself fighting for Texas and against his country’s dictator? Will he survive the bloody battle of the Alamo and the ensuing battles that took hundreds of lives and drastically changed the face of Mexico…