Pura Belpré Awards

Pura Belpré Awards PDF Author: Rose Zertuche Treviño
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838935620
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Book Description
Discusses this biennial award that honors Latino writers and illustrators, annotates the award-winning books, provides biographical information about the authors and illustrators, and suggests booktalks and activities.

Harvesting Hope

Harvesting Hope PDF Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152014377
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Book Description
The true story of a shy boy who grew up to be one of America's greatest civilrights leaders is told in this picture book biography. Full color.

Faith, Farming, and Family

Faith, Farming, and Family PDF Author: Caitlin Henderson
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0525654194
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Book Description
A young farmer’s wife draws on her life with kids, cows, and a front-porch view to help us see God’s goodness and beauty wherever we are, reminding us that the simple life is not a place to be but a way to be. “Grab a cup of coffee and join Caitlin on her porch to hear the lessons God has taught her through the good and hard of everyday life.”—Vivian Mabuni, speaker and author of Open Hands, Willing Heart: Discover the Joy of Saying Yes to God When Caitlin, a small-town girl, fell in love with a farm boy named Jake Henderson, she had little idea what farm life—or marriage and motherhood—would bring. But raising a family on a farm is teaching her more about God’s goodness and grace than she could have imagined. Faith, Farming, and Family is a rich, story-filled walk through farmhouse hallways, harvest-ready fields, and God’s bountiful dreams for our lives. As Caitlin reflects on everything from wayward tractors to watching a marriage grow from surviving to flourishing, she reminds us to see the redemption in our own stories. Join Caitlin in exploring biblical truth through the eyes of a farmer’s wife, whether you are wrangling kids onto a school bus, sowing creative seeds in a business meeting, or walking the pastures of your own family farm. Faith, Farming, and Family invites us to recognize God’s beauty right in front of us so that we might find the courage to take the next step—or the first step—into His incredible calling.

Harvesting the Bay

Harvesting the Bay PDF Author: Ray Huling
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762787090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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“If we mean to change our ways, how will we do it? How will we make our food and our system of food production healthy, sustainable, and secure? How will we make them, in a word, sane? Who will do this work?” Ray Huling knows the hard realities of shellfishing. His father and grandfathers were shellfishermen on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, laborers in an age-old trade. Because he grew up surrounded by quahaugers, the industry is in his blood and the drive to keep it sustainable is what makes up his family history. In Harvesting the Bay, Huling answers these pressing questions and delivers a moving portrait of the men and women who work the waters of the Atlantic Coast in the harsh environment of the shellfishing industry. Huling argues that any successful sustainable food enterprise will likely resemble shellfishing in Rhode Island, an industry that has existed sustainably for over 150 years, with its complex system of governance, its fierce and obsessive workforce, and its conflicts within communities and between generations. This thought-provoking book sets the complexities of sustainable food production against a heartwarming story of one family’s enduring years of work on the seas.

A Drop of Hope

A Drop of Hope PDF Author: Keith Calabrese
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133823322X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Introducing an extraordinary new voice who shows us how powerful an act of kindness, a hint of magic, and a little hope can be. "A book that reminds us of the kindness we are all capable of." -- Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and author of Okay For NowA well. A wish. And a little drop of hope.Times are tough. Jobs are scarce and miracles are in short supply. But something strange is happening in Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio. An old well has suddenly, impossibly, begun to grant wishes. And three sixth graders are the only ones who know why.Ernest Wilmette believes a good deed makes magic happen. Ryan Hardy thinks they should just mind their own business. Lizzy MacComber believes in facts, not fairy tales. Of course, you don't have to believe in wishes to make one.As more wishes are made, the well's true secret gets harder and harder to keep. Ernest, Ryan, and Lizzy know they can't fix the world. But in their own little corner of it, they can give everyone a little hope... one wish at a time.

A Nation's Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis

A Nation's Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis PDF Author: Matt de la Peña
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147510619
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Book Description
The magnificent, inspiring story of an AMERICAN SPORTS HERO, by Newbery Award-winning author Matt de la Pena. On the eve of World War II, African-American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world heavyweight title. For much of America, their fight came to represent America’s war with Germany. This elegant and powerful picture book biography centers on this historic fight in which the American people came together to celebrate our nation’s founding ideals. New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award Booklist Editor's Choice Best Books of 2011 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011

Harvesting the Heart

Harvesting the Heart PDF Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101042443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Small Great Things and Mad Honey, a novel exploring the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave. Harvesting the Heart is written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, and recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Kristin Hannah. Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters, and explores motherhood with a power and depth only she is capable of. “A brilliant, moving examination of motherhood, brimming with detail and emotion.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch “Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel. This story belongs to… the lucky reader.” —The New York Times Book Review

Harvesting Abundance

Harvesting Abundance PDF Author: Brian Sellers-Petersen
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819233099
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Book Description
- Offers specific examples of success stories of faith communities involved in the faith + food movement - Engaging stories with photos in local communities and neighborhoods showing the church in action

A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez

A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez PDF Author: David A. Adler
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 9780823423835
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Presents a portrait of the personal life and career as a labor leader of Cesar Chavez, who helped to organize the mostly Mexican American migrant farm workers and led the struggle for social justice of the United Farm Workers.

Bloody Harvest

Bloody Harvest PDF Author: David Matas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Book Description
Falun Gong is a modern day spiritual/exercise movement which began in China in 1991 drawing on and combining ancient Chinese traditions. The Chinese Communist Party, alarmed at the growth of the movement and fearing for its own ideological supremacy banned the movement in 1999. Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in the hundreds of thousands and asked to recant. If they did not, they were tortured. If they still did not recant, they disappeared. Allegations surfaced in 2006 that the disappeared were being killed for their organs which were sold for large sums mostly to foreign transplant tourists. It is generally accepted that China kills prisoners for organs. The debate is over whether the prisoners who are killed are only criminals sentenced to death or Falun Gong practitioners as well. The authors produced a report concluding that the allegations were true. Bloody Harvest sets out the investigations and conclusions of the authors.

Harvesting Dreams

Harvesting Dreams PDF Author: Erica Alfaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781647899721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
In 2019, Erica's graduation picture went viral and made headlines around the world. She was dressed in a graduation cap and gown, standing in a field with her farm worker mother and father. To honor her parents sacrifices, she took her master's degree pictures in the field where they had worked long hours to provide her with an education.This is the testimony of a girl who never believed she could achieve great goals, for she always felt she was less than a man. A teenage mother and a victim of domestic violence, who, after years of many adversities, managed to reinvent herself and become the woman she is today-someone who has achieved everything she thought was impossible.