These informative, trade-book quality biographies trace the life of nine important American citizens from childhood to adulthood. They feature colorful photographs, maps, and charts, and connections to history, geography, civics, and economics. Glossaries and discussion questions as well as comparisons between the past and present day are also included.
Professor Lidenbrock finds a strange message in an old book. He sets off with his nephew Axel on a dangerous journey under a volcano to find - the centre of the Earth! The Professor and Axel have many amazing adventures along the way, and even see prehistoric monsters! But will they find the centre of the Earth?
В сборник вошли короткие познавательные рассказы, стихи, загадки, смешные истории о самых разнообразных вещах и явлениях. Материал книги тесно переплетается с темами школьной программы и может быть использован как на занятиях по устной практике, так и для домашнего чтения. Тексты сопровождаются различными типами заданий.
Laura and her father live quietly in a castle in the middle of a thick forest, but their lives change when beautiful, strange Carmilla becomes their guest. People start dying, and Laura also becomes ill. Laura's father is worried. Will his daughter die too? Or can the deaths be stopped?
