Author: Carilyn Alarid
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611396077
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Based on extensive research as well as on a career working for cultural institutions, historian Thomas E. Chávez has created a historical novel about the American southwest, specifically in New Mexico and Arizona, a place where Europeans settled in 1598. Here is a historical narrative about one of those families. The story begins and ends with Edward Romero who became the United States ambassador to Spain and is prototypical of the thousands of young men and some women who sought a new life in the new world and became American. These were people taking risks, accepting fate, succeeding, failing, loving, and hating. The Romero story is an American odyssey shared by any number of families in a region and whose cultural legacy is part of the heritage of the United States that only recently has come to the fore in the United States’ national consciousness. This story delineates a part of the heritage of every American and enriches an already beautiful history. A bibliographic essay, maps, and genealogical charts will assist the reader to differentiate places, names, and generations.
Author: Carilyn Alarid
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611396093
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Thinks A Lot has her head in the clouds, or does she? Thinks A Lot has seen animal shapes in the clouds since she was a little girl. She often saw images in the clouds that sometimes could not be seen by others. Grandfather told her it was a gift she could use to help her people. But, how? Grandmother chose Thinks A Lot to teach the small children of the village how to play and get along with each other. So Thinks A Lot began to teach the children to see images in the clouds and how to look for animal tracks. She thinks it is her work, but her cousins think is it just play. When does work become play, or play become work? In this story the Mimbres children learn an important lesson about fairness. Grandfather explains that equal and fair are not always the same thing. This is the fifth book in a series written to help children learn about good character traits. The children’s adventures are brought to life through the illustrations of everyday life as depicted on the pottery bowls by Mimbres artists of a thousand years ago. Teachers, Librarians, parents, and children of all ages will enjoy this pictorial narrative.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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Author: Carilyn Alarid
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611396085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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This exciting story introduces the use of the Native American "talking stick" and the "lightening stick" through the unique, black and white painted pottery images used by the Mimbres Indians of southwest New Mexico. The story centers on five Mimbres children who empower themselves to become active, contributing citizens of their village. Their life experiences teach them courage, empathy, tolerance and determination on their journey toward adulthood. The children are brought to life through the illustrated scenes of everyday activity as depicted on the pottery bowls by Mimbres artists of a thousand years ago. This book, focusing on the theme of citizenship, is the second in a series to help children learn how to develop good character traits. Teachers, librarians and children of all ages will enjoy this pictorial narrative.
Author: Ann H. Gabhart
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441238174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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By 1849, Jessamine Brady has been in the Shaker Village for half her life, but in spite of how she loves her sisters there, she struggles to conform to the strict rules. Instead she entertains dreams of the world outside. When Tristan Cooper seems to step out of those dreams to entice her into the forbidden realm beyond the Shaker Village, her life turns upside down. Will Jessamine be able to survive the storms of the world? Or will she retreat back to the peace of Harmony Hill? The thousands of loyal fans of Gabhart's Shaker novels will love this entrancing story of learning to trust the gifts God gives us and let him guide us through life.
Author: Melissa Dougherty Anderson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291116117
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Languages : en
Pages : 129
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When spunky Colorado cowgirl Willow Rose Channing moves to London, she has to trade her pink cowgirl boots for a posh prep school uniform. This is a story about self discovery, and making the best out of a new situation. This novel also explores the butterflies in your stomach feeling of having a first crush.
Author: Lisa Shea
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316501905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Things have gone topsy-turvy at Ever After High! After Faybelle casts a spell on the midterm hexams, the students unhexpectedly find themselves inside the wrong storybooks! When Cerise Hood and Dexter Charming realize they're in the story of Beauty and the Beast, they both think it's a royal fairy fail. Cerise would rather run outside than stay in a castle, and Dexter is worried that he'll never escape his big brother's shadow. But when they discover that they'll need to make it to the end of the story to return to school, Cerise and Dex are determined to fit in-even if they're better off being themselves. Will this team find their fairy own hextraordinary way to a Happily Ever After? © 2017 Mattel. All Rights Reserved.
Author: Ou Ning
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806153059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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To Westerners China has often seemed a monolith, speaking with one voice—whether that of an ancient dynasty, a socialist state, or an economic powerhouse. Chutzpah! New Voices from China shatters this illusion, giving Western readers a rare chance to listen to the brilliant polyphony of Chinese fiction today. Here, in the realms of realism and fantasy, and portraying worlds lyrical, gritty, or wildly avant-garde, sixteen selections—three of which are nonfiction—by up-and-coming Chinese writers take readers from the suburbs of Nanjing to the mountains of Xinjiang Province, from London’s Chinatown to a universe seemingly sprung from a video game. In these stories one may encounter a sweet, lonely fabric store owner or a lesbian housecleaner, a posse of shit-talking vo-tech students or a human hive-mind. A jeep-driving swordsman girds himself for battle by reading Borges and Nabokov. A Beijing-raised Kazakh boy hunts for his lost heritage. A teenager plots revenge on the bureaucrat responsible for demolishing his home. A starving child falls in love with a water spirit. These stories, collected by Ou Ning and Austin Woerner, and offered in English by leading translators of Chinese, travel the breadth and depth of China’s remarkable literary landscape. Drawn from the pages of Chutzpah!, one of China’s most innovative literary magazines, this anthology bids farewell to the tired tropes of moonlight and peach blossoms, goodbye to the constraints of socialist realism. In their place it introduces us to the imaginative power, boundless creativity, and kaleidoscopic diversity of a new generation of Chinese fiction.
Author: Craig Conrad
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796093386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Leighann Baker, Paige Harper's roommate, asks Paul Rice to find her cousin. David Baker, who has suddenly disappeared, leaving his two children behind. Paul naturally helps her, but even before he sets out for Falls Corners, Wisconsin, where the disappearance took place, he discovers that the missing man's wife has also disappeared and the police think Baker had something to do with her disappearance and is hiding from them. Once reaching Falls Corners, Paul finds that the community is enchanted in more ways then one and the area is a hot bed for biped wolf encounters whose ability to change form and look human has enabled them to infiltrate government agencies, including the CIA.
Author: Robert Elmer
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310742668
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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In this three-book collection of historical fiction stories centered on life behind the Berlin Wall in East Germany between 1948 and 1989, middle school readers 8-12 can experience action-packed, suspenseful, and historically accurate stories that bring history to life from a kids’ perspective. Life Behind the Wall is perfect for: kids interested in stories about spies, mysteries, adventure, and friendship providing a fun and interesting series that helps readers 8-12 understand history in a real and understandable way homeschool or school libraries back to school reading, birthdays, and holiday gifts Included in this three-in-one collection are the titles Candy Bombers, Beetle Bunker, and Smuggler’s Treasure, which together follow a family from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall, with each entertaining story highlighting what kids experienced at key moments in history.
