Author: Shannon Joy Hendrickson
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781631776045
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Brenda Maier
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338257161
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year* "The Little Red Hen gets an appealing girl-power update...Young makers of all genders will be inspired." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred reviewRuby's mind is always full of ideas.One day, she finds some old boards and decides to build something. She invites her brothers to help, but they just laugh and tell her she doesn't know how to build."Then I'll learn," she says.And she does!When she creates a dazzling fort that they all want to play in, it is Ruby who has the last laugh.With sprightly text and winsome pictures, this modern spin on the timeless favorite The Little Red Hen celebrates the pluck and ingenuity of young creators everywhere!

Author: James Buckwalter-Arias
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1855661950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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1990s' Cuban literature, caught between a beleaguered socialism and an encroaching global capitalism.

Author: Robert M. Helmey
Publisher: R M Helmey
ISBN: 9780970323200
Category : Hijacking of aircraft
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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In the tradition of Ron Kovic "Born on the Fourth of July", Helmey saga epitomizes the heartbreaking conflict that characterized the Vietnam War years, as he recounts the story of hijacking a commercial 727 and forcing its pilot to fly to Cuba, as part of his mission to "get" Fidel Castro.

Author: Christopher Russo
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823445879
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Cat learns colors and meets new friends! This Level C book is perfect for kindergarteners to read on their own. Cat likes red. Red is nice. Cat likes yellow. Yellow is nice. Cat meets a red ladybug. Turn the page: Cat and Cat's new friend are outdoors in an all-red scene, chock full of details. Cat meets more friends--including a green lizard, a blue fish, and a yellow bee. Your new reader will build skills, gain confidence, and have fun too! This book has been officially leveled by using the F & P Text Level Gradient(TM) Leveling System. For readers who've mastered basic sight words, Level C books feature slightly longer sentences and a wider range of high-frequency words than Level B books. Level C books are suitable for mid-to-late kindergarten readers. When Level C is mastered, follow up with Level D. I Like to Read: The award-winning I Like to Read series features guided reading levels A through G, based upon Fountas & Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors--create original, high-quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read again and again with their parents, teachers or on their own!

Author: Rolando Costa Picazo
Publisher: Miño y Dávila
ISBN: 8416467277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Costa Picazo recopila, traduce y anota las poesías de guerra de cinco poetas ingleses (Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg y Siegfried Sassoon) y un grupo de mujeres poetas (Marian Allen, Nora Bomford, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair y Elizabeth Underhill, entre otras). Tierra de nadie es un libro acerca de una de las guerras más terribles del siglo XX, en la que más de setenta y cinco millones de hombres fueron movilizados y más de la mitad resultaron muertos o desaparecidos. Es un libro sobre el horror de la guerra y, a pesar del espanto, sobre poesía. La Gran Guerra fue una contienda de trincheras, de dos frentes enemigos separados por un vacío que no era de nadie. Las profundas excavaciones, situadas en lados opuestos, prote-gidas por alambre de púa y ametralladoras, estaban separadas por una extensión de terreno infértil, que la lluvia y el defectuoso sistema de desagües convertían en lodazal. Las trincheras eran un claro ejemplo de deterioro y putrefacción. Allí se amontonaban los vivos y los muertos, estos últimos absorbidos por el fango y todos en medio de las ratas y el hedor. En ese contexto, cinco poetas ingleses (Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg y Siegfried Sassoon) y un grupo de mujeres poetas (Marian Allen, Nora Bomford, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair y Elizabeth Underhill, entre otras) demostraron que el espíritu humano sobrevive al horror y es capaz de afirmarse en medio del caos, y eternizarse.

Author: Robert Welles Ritchie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Marie Brennan
Publisher: Book View Cafe
ISBN: 1611389038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Step beyond the ordinary . . . Beneath the surface of our reality lies a world of magic and danger -- a world where buildings have guardian spirits, shapeshifting coyotes prey on the hopeful and the desperate, and ancient traditions prepare for an apocalyptic future. These seven urban fantasy tales from award-winning author Marie Brennan paint the everyday with a layer of wonder, inviting you to imagine what could lie just around the corner. TABLE OF CONTENTS * “Coyotaje” * “Selection” * “Such as Dreams Are Made Of” * “La Molejera” * “Comparison of Efficacy Rates for Seven Antipathetics as Employed Against Lycanthropes” * “The Last Wendy” * “The Genius Prize” * Story notes

Author: Peter Abrahams
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0307777871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Eighteen-year-old Eddie Nye was bound for U.S.C. and a bright future that fateful summer in the Bahamas. But somebody set Eddie up. Instead of four years of higher education, he did fifteen behind bars for drug smuggling. Eddie went in innocent, but with three prison murders under his belt, he comes out dangerous. Although all he wants is to stay clean, Eddie’s future won’t be that easy. The nightmares of his past—corruption, greed, and most of all a stunning betrayal—are on a collision course with a daring plot hatched in a prison cell. To learn the secret of his own life, half-hidden in an ancient mariner’s saga, Eddie must face the hardest choice a free man can make.

Author: Victoria Blanco
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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A displaced family charts a path forward in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take. The Rarámuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, make up one of the largest Indigenous tribes of North America. Renowned for maintaining their language and cultural traditions in the face of colonization, they have weathered numerous hardships—climate disaster, poverty, cultural erasure—that have only worsened during the twenty-first century. Based on more than a decade of oral history and participatory field work, Out of the Sierra paints a vivid and vital portrait of Rarámuri displacement. When drought leaves the Gutiérrez family with nothing to eat, they are faced with the choice many Rarámuris must make: remain and hope for rain and aid, or leave their sacred homeland behind. Luis, Martina, and their children choose to journey from their home in the Sierra Madre mountains toward a new and uncertain future in a government-funded Indigenous settlement. Victoria Blanco considers Indigenous identity with tenderness and intelligence, demanding recognition and justice for the Rarámuri people as they resist assimilation and uphold traditional knowledge in the face of broken systems. In a narrative of unprecedented access and intimacy, Out of the Sierra offers a groundbreaking testimony to human resilience and the power of community.