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1682) Without men
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The women of a remote Latin American town are forced to pick up the pieces and remake their world when all the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas.
Author
Series
Nina Guerrera volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than two thousand miles away. In the process, they?ll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale...
1688) The Amethyst ring
Author
Series
Julian Escobar series volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Spanish seminarian Juliǹ Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcǹ and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortš and Pizarro.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This title examines the remarkable life of Che Guevara. Readers will learn about Guevara's family background, childhood, education, and groundbreaking work as a revolutionary fighting against poverty. Color photos, a detailed map, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text.
1691) A little book of sloth
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hang around just like a sloth and get to know the delightful residents of the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, the world's largest sloth orphanage. You'll fall in love with bad-boy Mateo, ooh and ahh over baby Biscuit, and want to wrap your arms around champion cuddle buddy Ubu!
1692) Mamá Goose
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Presents lullabies, finger plays, nursery rhymes, games, riddles, proverbs, and more in Spanish and English.
Una colección de canciones de cuna encantadoras.
1693) The Hispanics
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
�2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs provide information about the experiences of Hispanics in the U.S. and Canada, discussing the reasons why people left Spain and Latin America, their journeys to North America, early settlements, neighborhoods, culture and traditions, fiestas, and other topics.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Steeped in Hispanic folklore since childhood, middle schooler Charlie Hernández learns the stories are true when, shortly after his parents disappearance, he grows horns and feathers and finds himself at the heart of a battle to save the world.
1699) The composition
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a government official comes into a third grade classroom and tells the students to write a composition entitled "What My Family Does at Night," Pedro must decide how he feels about the military dictatorship that is running his country.
1700) Cien a�nos de soledad
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa�nol
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of the gradual modernization of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
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