Author: David Heredia
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338718274
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 34
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Say hello to heroes! This book introduces preschoolers to 50 men and women of color who have changed the world! Desde Toussaint L'Overture, el lider de la Revolucion haitiana, hasta la jueza Sonia Sotomayor, la primera puertorriquena jueza de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos, estos heroes y heroinas persistieron contra la adversidad y las dificultades para lograr un cambio positivo.From Toussaint L'Ouverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Supreme Court Justice from Puerto Rico, these heroes have persisted through adversity and hardships to bring about positive change.
Author: Scholastic
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338810197
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Peppa learns about and celebrates St. Patrick's Day in this original 8x8 storybool. Includes a special fact sheet in the back. Based on the hit show on Nick Jr. Peppa and George are going to Ireland for an Irish-dancing festival! But when the band forget their instruments, will Peppa's new Irish four-leaf clover be able to bring them some luck? This brand-new story features a glittery cover and is the perfect introduction to Ireland and St. Patrick's Day for little Peppa fans.
Author: Jodie Shepherd
Publisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780531216842
Category : African American women tennis players
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Rookie Biographies(tm) Rookie Biographies offer an in-depth look at some of the most influential people in history. They might be groundbreaking entertainers, like Oprah Winfrey, or incredible athletes like Serena Williams. No matter what his or her story, each of these individuals is worth getting to know better. Serena Williams: Serena Williams has been ranked number one in the world five times and has earned more prize money than any other female player in history. A You Can... feature at the end of each book that tells the reader how he or she can emulate the subject Fast facts offering interesting, sometimes little-known facts about the subject A map with key indicating where the subject was born and other significant areas helps children develop early map reading skills A timeline that recaps important moments in the subject's life A poem about the subject which introduces children to a different text type Glossary with pictures www.factsfornow.scholastic.com See page 1 for more information.
Author: Monica Brown
Publisher: Rayo
ISBN: 9780061227837
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In this vibrant bilingual picture book biography of musician Tito Puente, readers will dance along to the beat of this mambo king's life. Tito Puente loved banging pots and pans as a child, but what he really dreamed of was having his own band one day. From Spanish Harlem to the Grammy Awards—and all the beats in between—this is the true life story of a boy whose passion for music turned him into the "King of Mambo." Award-winning author-illustrator duo Monica Brown and Rafael López bring the remarkable story of this talented legend to life in this Pura Belpré Honor Book. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
Author: Molly Bang
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688073336
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Business returns to a once prosperous restaurant when a mysterious stranger pays for his meal with a magical paper crane that comes alive and dances.
Author: Jennifer French
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810142651
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including José Martí, Bartolomé de las Casas, Rubén Darío, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic, and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow. The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought—recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth—can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic “New World” and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
Author: Nelson A Denis
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568585020
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely." In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens. Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism. Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history.
Author: Leo Lionni
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679840305
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Vibrant collage illustrations capture two mice as they enjoy some of life's greatest pleasures--from picking flowers and climbing a tree to swimming and reading. For children under three.
Author: Monica Sweeney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510748210
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Can a lost box of crayons help a lonely unicorn regain his color? A shy unicorn has a hard time making friends. In his sadness, his colors start to fade away until they are gone completely. Worrying that he may never get back his colors or make true friends, the unicorn finds himself lost and alone. It is not until he comes across a group of spunky crayons that his world changes. The crayons band together to help their new friend get back his colors, and in the process play and have fun. The crayons’ helping generosity and friendship may just be what the unicorn has been missing! How the Crayons Saved the Unicorn is the all-new, colorful friendship book from the plucky crayons who brought you How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow. How the Crayons Saved the Unicorn teaches the importance of friendship and self-confidence through seven crayons with unique personalities and their hopes to help a friend in need.
Author: Folke Gernert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695758
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
