Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage.
The Carmen Sandiego series are spy adventure programs. Carmen devises an evil plot and you are challenged to stop her. In Math Detective, she shrinks many of the world's famous sites such as the Great Wall of China, Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Ayers Rock exercises skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, estimating, converting fractions and decimals, calculating percentages, geometry. Teaches 34 math strategies that can be used to solve these types of math questions.
Exposing the hollowness of San Diego’s boom years, Drift uncovers the hidden past of this southwestern mecca—a history inhabited by the likes of Emma Goldman, Henry Miller, Mission Indians, and Theosophists—and captures the underlying emptiness and unease of San Diego circa 2000.
