On a happy island called Aruba, off the coast of South America, there lived a beautiful but lonely, black rooster named Coco. When Coco was small he became lost in a terrible storm that separated him from his family. He grew up alone in the Arikok National Park. He enjoyed the warm weather and the scenery around him but what he wished for most was for family and friends. One day he thought to himself, "Maybe I should explore other regions of my island to try to make some friends," and this is how his adventure began.Coco tries over and over again to make new friends but the animals can't see past their differences and turn him away. Undetermined, Coco eventually meets a disfigured and bullied pigeon and they become the best of friends. When all the animals witness how much fun Coco and Patches are having they realize they made a mistake. Now they have to come to Coco to ask him if he will be their friend.

"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.

"A loving tribute to problemsolvers, quarrel menders, and peacemakers." -Kirkus Reviews. Each day, the old mailman faithfully delivers special letters to the forest animals. But the mailman has never received any letters of his own. Then one day everything changes. This touching story of friendship and love will delight readers and letter writers of all ages. Guided Reading Level: M, Lexile Level: 710L

A deer who cooks the best pies in the forest. A missing recipe book. An unsolved mystery. The delightful characters from the hugely successful book The Lonely Mailman return, in a charming tale that invites readers to think about the emotional impact of jealousy, the importance of empathy, and the ability to forgive.

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.

There have been huge advances in our ability to diagnose autism and in the development of effective interventions that can change children’s lives. In this extraordinary book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a leading clinician, researcher, and cofounder of the renowned Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, combines her cutting-edge expertise with the everyday perspectives of Claire LaZebnik, a writer whose experience with a son with autism provides a rare window into the disorder. Together, they draw on the highly effective “pivotal response” approach developed at the center to provide concrete ways of improving the symptoms of autism and the emotional struggles that surround it, while reminding readers never to lose sight of the humor that lurks in the disability’s quirkiness or the importance of enjoying your child. From the shock of diagnosis to the step-by-step work with verbal communication, social interaction, self-stimulation, meltdowns, fears, and more, the answers are here-in a book that is as warm and nurturing as it is authoritative.

Mi libro se trata de una historia real, donde encontrarás de todo. Se trata de una mujer que vivió muchos años, EL DOLOR DE UN RECUERDO. Una mujer que fue maltratada, violada, humillada, pero que al final pudo romper todos los traumas que la envolvían, y hoy es una mujer nueva, diferente. En este libro encontrarás no solamente una historia más, sino también encontrarás consejos, como ayudarte a salir de la depresión, de los traumas, ya que Daniela, fue traumatizada desde que era muy pequeña. Encontrarás consejos para los padres, y también encontrarás poesía. No es un libro en su totalidad religioso, pero también habla de las maravillas y bondades de nuestro Dios. Habla de cómo Daniela fue liberada de todas aquellas ataduras. Y el propósito de escribir este libro, es poder ayudar a otros a salir de todas esas depresiones y que puedan confiar en ellos mismos.