Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609401832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.
Author: Amy Dixon
Publisher: Running Press Kids
ISBN: 0762463848
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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For every kid who's ever come in second place, this is a middle grade story about chasing your dreams. Eleven-year-old Annie Brown is used to being on the losing end of comparisons to her almost-always best friend Savannah. Savannah is MVP of the track team, has straight As, and, predictably, wins the most coveted school spirit award on the last day of 5th grade. Fortunately, Annie does have one very specialized skill. Inspired by As Seen on TV commercials, Annie likes to invent products and write clever sales pitches to go along with them. So when an opportunity arises to audition for a local web show called The Cat's Meow, Annie knows her future is set. She's going to wow those producers with her fabulous writing and made-for-TV announcer voice. Of course, things don't happen quite according to plan, and soon Annie is worried about losing both the opportunity she's been training for her whole life, and her best friend.
Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today's Chicano/a writers and artists feel free to focus as much on the aesthetic quality of their work as on its social content. They use novels, short stories, poetry, drama, documentary films, and comic books to shape the raw materials of life into art objects that cause us to participate empathetically in an increasingly complex Chicano/a identity and experience. This book presents far-ranging interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights. Some are mainstream, widely recognized creators, while others work from the margins because of their sexual orientations or their controversial positions. Frederick Luis Aldama draws out the artists and authors on both the aesthetic and the sociopolitical concerns that animate their work. Their conversations delve into such areas as how the artists' or writers' life experiences have molded their work, why they choose to work in certain genres and how they have transformed them, what it means to be Chicano/a in today's pluralistic society, and how Chicano/a identity influences and is influenced by contact with ethnic and racial identities from around the world.
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 0930324676
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.
Author: Pamela Uschuk
Publisher: Wings Press (TX)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Another stunning collection of poetry from Pamela Uschuk. Parabola Magazine called the author of One-Legged Dancer, "a knowing observer of animal and human ways, gifted with a sure eye and the master of an idiom charged with meaning and feeling.
Author: Lucha Corpi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Mascaras (Masks) brings together some of the most talented contemporary Latina writers in the United States. These essays illuminate the ways life and craft are entwined. They are a courageous testament to the odds Latina writers must overcome to clear the space and achieve a voice in our society.
Author: Donald R. Barton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoological specimens
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Emmanuel Sampath Nelson
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Alphabetically arranged entries in five chronological volumes focus on individual authors, works, and topics related to multiethnic American literature.
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 3220
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Author: California (State).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Number of Exhibits: 22
