Books with author Danielle Smith-Llera

In the second largest country in South America, teens in Argentina enjoy the bustling streets of Buenos Aires, the great plains of the Pampas, and the towering mountaintops of the Andes. The country’s culture is rich and diverse, and its young people flock to the cities. They will attend barbecues, watch soccer, rugby, or polo matches, study for school, or spend time with their families. Teens in Argentina is part of Global Connections, a series that uncovers the challenges, pastimes, and customs of teens around the world.

What has been called the most famous photograph in the world, and a symbol of the 20th century, began as a spur of the moment snapshot by a Cuban photographer. Alberto Korda transformed a simple photo into a world famous portrait of a larger than life revolutionary. Korda's 1960 photo of Che Guevara's defiant face has traveled the world in many forms. It shows up wherever people struggle for freedom and human rights. And in the 21st century, the controversial photo continues to inspire, entertain, and even infuriate.

Take a trip to the West! Each page is filled with exciting facts about this part of the United States, including its history, rich culture, geography, major cities, and everyday life. Buckle up as you read about and see pictures of this part of our fascinating country. Includes Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho , Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Imagine leaving your home and moving across the country to a new life on the unknown frontier. That’s exactly what members of the Donner Party were trying to do in the mid-1800s when they traveled out west, chasing their dreams of a better life. But instead, many were destined to meet a cruel fate. Lively language, historical illustrations, and primary source journal entries from members of the Donner Party help readers feel as if they were a part of the journey. Meets Common Core critical thinking standards, and provides strong ties to social studies standards on westward expansion.

To the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber taken with X-rays. And to young scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, it confirmed their guess of deoxyribonucleic acid's structure. In 1953 the pair was racing toward solving the mystery of DNA's structure before other scientists could beat them to it. They and others believed that finding the simple structure of the DNA molecule would answer a great mystery, how do organisms live, grow, develop, and survive, generation after generation? Photo 51 and subsequent models based on the photo would prove to be the key to unlocking the secret of life.

Ben was dreaming when he woke to his rooster, Big Red, greeting the sun with a loud "Cock-a-doodle-do". When he arrived at his hen yard, his feisty friend was nowhere to be found and his favorite hen, Cozette, was interested in a mysterious object at the edge of the forest. What she found that fateful morning takes Ben on the adventure of a lifetime.Follow Ben as he chases the sun across the sky, opening his eyes to the world and learning a few things along the way.

A massive tsunami caused by the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl accident 25 years earlier. The monster waves that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 killed 15,000 people and caused nuclear reactor meltdowns that threatened the lives of thousands more. The waves receded long ago, but the devastating effects of the nuclear accident still linger.