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1) Chile
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Chile"--Provided by publisher.
2) Chile
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the geography, history, economy, society, people, and culture of Chile.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
Author
Series
Butterfly Hill volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets
Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Portrait in Sepia is a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family.
The protagonist, Aurora del Valle, suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollections...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
9) 9 kilometers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
Author
Language
English
Description
After a bout with the measles that left his vision impaired, Harvard undergrad Richard Henry Dana signed up for a two-year engagement as a sailor, thinking that the fresh sea air might improve his vision. The diary that Dana kept during his stint on the open sea formed the basis for this wildly popular memoir, which was later made into a movie. A must-read for fans of rip-roaring nautical tales or social history buffs.
11) The dreamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
14) Violeta
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne...
15) Violeta: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores...
16) Chile
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the geography, history, government, people, arts, foods, and other aspects of life in Chile.
18) Chile
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history, topography, people, and culture of Chile, with an emphasis on its current economy, and place in the political world.
19) Chile
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports, arts, and people of Chile.
Author
Series
Butterfly Hill volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns to Valparaiso from Maine, she decides to uncover the truth about what happened in Butterfly Hill during the dictatorship and find her missing friend, Lucila.
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