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This program investigates a very important star - our sun. The key features of our sun, as well as other stars are explored. Special attention is also given to other things in space such as asteroids and comets.

Set in the wild landscape of Andalucia, Indiscretion is a compelling story of love and identity, danger and desire, and the uncertainty of happiness when two worlds collide. Written in Fielding's signature style, infused with an old-school Hollywood glamour, Indiscretion evokes the drama and passion of 1950s post-war Spain.

A troubled young journalist goes undercover in Spain, and finds her loyalties tested when love and desire unearth secrets she hadn't bargained for. When Luna Ward, a beautiful ice-blonde graduate, is commissioned by a leading New York science journal to investigate the head of a Spanish alternative health clinic, she jumps at the chance. But her life becomes far more complicated once she meets the man she has been tasked to expose. Luna finds Rodrigo...

Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.

Celebrate the wealth of sights, sounds, smells, and textures to discover and enjoy the sun. "¡A jugar bajo el sol! ¡Hay una gran variedad de vistas, sonidos, olores, sabores y texturas para descubrir y disfrutar!"--Page [4] of cover.

A seventeen year old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.

A traditional Mexican folktale in which a faithful lizard finds the sun which brings light and warmth back to the world.

In 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera, who uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule--and who is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.

This book teaches kids about the summer and winter solstice and why the sun changes position in the sky throughout the year. The book is complete with labeled images when needed, simple text, and more facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.

Describes some of the features of the Moon, including its rotation around the Earth once a month, craters that result from being hit by rocks from space, and the different phases of the Moon caused by changes in illumination from the sun.