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Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Indira, a Cuban actress, succeeded in fleeing to the USA but her emigration had its consequences on her family. In Santa Clara (Cuba) she left 11-year-old son Leandro and other members of her numerous family. Settled now in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, the different mentality and a completely new social system. As her "American Dream" turns to an "American Nightmare", her son Leandro is waiting in Santa Clara for her to settle...
Author
Publisher
Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A librarian mother spends a summer with her metalhead teenage son. A depressive young man becomes an apprentice to a legend-in-his-own mind. These people you never think about will make you reexamine yourself.
4) 9 kilometers
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
5) The planets are very, very, very far away: a journey through the amazing scale of the solar system
Author
Publisher
The Experiment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!"--
6) Measure it!
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to measurement of length and distance and the two systems that are used to calculate them.
Publisher
Little Gestalten, an imprint of Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co KG
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that a colossal squid's eyeball is bigger than a basketball, or that your sneeze shoots out faster than a hurricane? 'How big is big? How far is far? All around me' moves through the world to find creative ways of explaining size, distance, weight, and speed to help introduce measurements to young children."--Back cover.
8) Lejos: Far
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Algunas cosas son lejanas -- far. Otras cosas están cerca -- close. ¿Puedes decir lo que está lejos?"--Back cover.
The little boy's house is far from the city, and the city is far from the ocean. What about the mountains in the distance, or the clouds in the sky, or the sun that shines over the boy as he walks?
9) Cerca: Close
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"Mi cuarto est̀ cerca de la cocina. My bedroom is close to the kitchen. Mi cuarto est̀ cerca de la cocina. My bedroom is close to the kitchen."--Provided by publisher.
As she walks from her kitchen through a daisy-filled yard to the house next door, a little girl notices things that are close to each other - just as the little boy she goes to visit is close to her.
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Looking Up is a celebration of telescopes - their shapes, sizes, and the science they enable. Open your eyes to the wonder of the skies. All over the world, people have built fantastic structures for looking up into the sky. These telescopes are not just scientific instruments -- they are monuments to curiosity and collaboration. In this book readers are introduced to the amazing spectrum of light, and the diverse shapes and methods used to study...
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components - the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market - means dealing with two factors: chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world"--Back cover.
13) Western lane
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.
Gopi has been playing squash since she was a small child. After the death of her mother, she is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father. Soon...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. They explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Teeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads...
Author
Language
English
Description
Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love--with a place, or a painting, or a person--and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss--from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Beams, combining tension and compression, are central to the second aspiration supported by engineering: building across long distances. As you survey beams from the primitive lintel over the Lion Gate at Mycenae to Norway's Raftsundet Bridge, you'll investigate scientific developments and transform your understanding of what makes this structural element possible.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn how distances in the solar system were first determined. Then chart Henry Cavendish's historic experiment that found the value of Newton's gravitational constant. Cavendish's work allows almost everything in the universe to be weighed. Then see a confirmation of the equivalence principle, which says that gravitational and inertial mass are identical.
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