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Eleven-year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...

A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society where Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston joins the underground where he becomes involved in a forbidden love affair.

Helps students learn Spanish by presenting simple, easy-to-read adaptations of classic Spanish stories and other material.

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland gives up...

Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.

Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate Spanish Grammar, Second Edition helps you take your grammar skills to a higher level and gives you the confidence to speak and write in your new language. This book leads you through Spanish grammar using concise, easy-to-understand language, keeping you focused on achieving your goal of total fluency. Building on the skills you have already learned, the book reinforces your understanding and usage of grammar topics...

A simple, scientifically accurate explanation on how people get their skin color for young children in English and Spanish.

Este manual presenta una lista de los 99 errores ortograficos y gramaticales mas comunes para explicar por que los cometemos. Con tecnicas sencillas, trucos y explicaciones basicas, este libro nos ayuda a resolver las dudas mas frecuentes que se nos plantean en nuestro dia a dia. This manual presents a list of the 99 most common orthographic and grammatical mistakes to explain why we make them. With simple techniques, tricks and basic explanations,...

Mexico, 1521. The Spanish army of Hernando Cortés has swept through the New World forcing their religious beliefs on the brave Aztec people. A skillful Aztec scribe, who survived the Massacre of the Temple in 1520, spends years trying to preserve the rites and customs of his people. The Spanish army would conquer their land, but not the soul of the Aztec people.