"Explora los símbolos y las tradiciones de la cultura estadounidense. ¿Cuál es su historia y por qué son importantes para la vida de los estadounidenses modernos?"-- Explores the symbols and traditions of found in the United States and provides a brief history of different holidays, discussing how and why they are celebrated.

Presents the authors' retellings of twelve traditional tales accompanied by information on origins and different versions.

Gracias a un electrodoméstico tan sencillo como la olla lenta eléctrica, hoy puedes disfrutar de los mejores platos tradicionales de la cocina española hechos con el cuidado y el amor con el que los cocinaban nuestras abuelas. Este libro ofrece una amplia variedad de entrantes, guisos clásicos y postres suculentos que viaja por toda España y te hace revivir el chup chup de las cocinas de antes sin olvidar los consejos prácticos: recetas claras...

"American Indians have served in our nation's military since colonial times. For many, military service is an extension of their warrior traditions. Others serve for love of home and country. Throughout Indian Country, servicemen and women are some of the most honored members of their communities. Charged by Congress with creating a memorial on its grounds, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) will dedicate the National Native American...

"Cuando el papá de Abigail muere, ella y su mamá deciden comenzar una nueva vida en otra provincia y, aunque les duele alejarse del mundo que hasta entonces han conocido, descubren poco a poco que la vida les depara muchas sorpresas y que la felicidad siempre logra abrirse camino. La hacienda chocolatera Tunkuluchú será el escenario de las aventuras que protagonizarán Abigail y su nueva amiga, Justina, quienes gozan de la inocencia propia de...

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation "A masterful history." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California's multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles."-Carlos E. Cortes, University of California, Riverside California is the most multicultural state in...

Presents the authors' retellings of traditional tales. Este hermoso texto tiene como objetivo mostrarles a los m s peque os del hogar las historias m s fant sticas que han pasado de generaci n en generaci n gracias a la cultura oral que a n prevalece en las abuelas de todas las familias. El libro cuenta con doce cuentos populares de la cultura, hebrea, africana, rabe, y espa ola. Cada una de ella permite conocer aquellos relatos que muchos adultos...

Jasminne Mendez didn't speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at home and the American, English-speaking one around her....

"...An imagined life, with Faulkner's tragic sensibility and Beckett's relentless grief."- Ricardo Baixeras, El Periodico From one of Mexico's leading writers-a memoir about three men who are driven to escape the confines of their traditional lives and roles. In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to fake his own death. He does not return for four years. A decade later, his son, Carlos Monge Sánchez, deserts...