Blanca Camacho
Author
Pub. Date
1998, 1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Leo es, sencillamente, un reto�o tardio". La mama de Leo esta en lo cierto y, cuando Leo al fin florece, es una ocasion de regocijo para todos.
Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
"Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." -The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters-Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía-and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father's role in an attempt...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Appears on list
Description
The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later. The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked...
Series
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
The wheels on the bus: Join the fun when this classic children's ditty comes gloriously to life.
Is your mama a llama: Lloyd the llama is looking for his mama. "Is your mama a llama?" he asks a bat, a swan, a cow, a seal, and a kangaroo.
Happy birthday, Moon: A bear buys the moon a beautiful present after he learns the moon has the same birthday.
Over in the meadow: This endearing version of a classic counting song is filled with the wonder of...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
The night before Christmas: Clement C. Moore's classic poem about a visit from St. Nicholas. Max's Christmas: Max is told he can't stay up to see Santa, but he sneaks downstairs anyway. Will Santa still come if Max is awake? Morris's disappearing bag: Morris thinks his brother and sister have better Christmas presents, but then he finds something very special in the last box under the tree. Owl moon: A young girl and her father take a magical night-time...