A little red-haired girl curls up by her grandmother to hear how, long ago, another little girl and her brother crossed the Atlantic and came to America.

Describes stars, how they are born, where the live, as well as the different types of stars that exist.

RESUMEN: Viaje a las estrellas, es el segundo viaje de Álvaro con Pruf Prof X-60. Esta vez se dirigen en su nave a conocer las estrellas y constelaciones más importantes. Un paseo para conocer la Osa Mayor, Menor, la estrella Polar, la constelación de Lira, el triángulo de verano, Orión, etc. Un sencillo y divertido cuento para conocer las estrellas, y desarrollar el amor por el Universo. EDAD RECOMENDADA: a partir de 7 años Nota: este libro es gratuito. Si al descargarlo se solicitase una tarjeta de crédito, pulsar en el botón "descargar muestra", ya que se descargará el libro completo.

Fifteen years ago, Concha Delgado-Gaitan began literacy research in Carpinteria, California. At that time, Mexican immigrants who labored in nurseries, factories, and housekeeping, had almost no voice in how their children were educated. Committed to participative research, Delgado-Gaitan collaborated with the community to connect family, school, and community. Regular community gatherings gave birth to the Comité de Padres Latinos. Refusing the role of the victim, the Comité paticipants organized to reach out to everyone in the community, not just other Latino families. Bound by their language, cultural history, hard work, respect, pain, and hope, they created possibilities that supported the learning of Latino students, who until then had too often dropped out or shown scant interest in school. In a society that accentuates individualism and independence, these men and women look to their community for leadership, support, and resources for children. The Power of Community is a critical work that shows how communities that pull together and offer caring ears, eyes, and hands, can ensure that their children thrive—academically, socially, and personally. It offers a fresh approach and workable solution to the problems that face schools today.

Originally published in 1996. During the author's decade of critical ethnography in Carpinteria, California, she has illuminated the intricate relationships between Latino families as together they build a sociopolitical community to bridge family and school alliances. How they extend their learning from the social networks to the family arena and to the personal, and in reverse, represents their protean responses to the diversity and adversity in their lives. This life-story captures the collective and individual texts of the Latino children, their parents and educators used to empower themselves to transform discontinuity in an age where continuity is increasingly foreign.