Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures #1)

Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures #1) PDF Author:
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN: 1935955349
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Book Description
Margarito acts like any other eleven-year-old aficionado of lucha libre. He worships all the players. But in the summer just before sixth grade, he tumbles over the railing at a match in San Antonio and makes a connection to the world of Mexican wrestling that will ultimately connect him—maybe by blood!—to the greatest hero of all time: the Guardian Angel. A 2012 Pura Belpré Author Honor Award winner! Xavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An enthusiastic author, artist, teacher, and storyteller, his work is a lively documentation of the dreams, superstitions, and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of south Texas.

Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures #1)

Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures #1) PDF Author:
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN: 1935955349
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Book Description
Margarito acts like any other eleven-year-old aficionado of lucha libre. He worships all the players. But in the summer just before sixth grade, he tumbles over the railing at a match in San Antonio and makes a connection to the world of Mexican wrestling that will ultimately connect him—maybe by blood!—to the greatest hero of all time: the Guardian Angel. A 2012 Pura Belpré Author Honor Award winner! Xavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An enthusiastic author, artist, teacher, and storyteller, his work is a lively documentation of the dreams, superstitions, and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of south Texas.

Maximilian & the mystery of the Guardian Angel

Maximilian & the mystery of the Guardian Angel PDF Author: Flor de María Oliva
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ISBN: 9780605500358
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Book Description
Eleven-year-old Maximilian, a big fan of the form of wrestling known as lucha libre, begins to suspect that he has a close connection with his favorite luchador, El Angel de La Guardia, the Guardian Angel.

Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel / Maximiliano y el Misterio Del Angel de la Guarda

Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel / Maximiliano y el Misterio Del Angel de la Guarda PDF Author: Xaviar Garza
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ISBN: 9781536430325
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Book Description
Eleven-year-old Maximilian, a big fan of lucha libre, makes an unexpected connection with his idol, the Guardian Angel, when he takes a tumble over the railing at a match in San Antonio.

Maximilian and the Lucha Libre Club

Maximilian and the Lucha Libre Club PDF Author:
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN: 1941026427
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Book Description
The fights still rage on in the third installation of Max's Lucha Libre Adventures series. Max seems like any other nerdy kid until he's asked to join the Lucha Libre Club. The super-secret club admits only the offspring of wrestling royalty. And Max is a prince, descended through his mother from royal blood, his uncle the very king of lucha libre: The Guardian Angel. Trouble is, the club is so secret that Max can't tell his best friend or girlfriend what he is up to. Just that vexing girl, Paloma. Xavier Garza lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Maximilian and the Curse of the Fallen Angel

Maximilian and the Curse of the Fallen Angel PDF Author: Xavier Garza
Publisher: Max's Lucha Libre Adventures
ISBN: 9781947627307
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 224

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After one last fight, the Guardian Angel will retire as the most famous luchador but his nephew, eighth-grader Maximilian, hopes to one day take over his name and his mask.

Maximilian & the mystery of the Guardian Angel

Maximilian & the mystery of the Guardian Angel PDF Author: Xavier Garza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545848817
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Eleven-year-old Maximilian, a big fan of the form of wrestling known as lucha libre, begins to suspect that he has a close connection with his favorite luchador, El Angel de La Guardia, or, the Guardian Angel.

Drug Lord

Drug Lord PDF Author: Terrence E. Poppa
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459617509
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Book Description
Twenty years after writing Drug Lord, Terrence Poppa decided the information in his book was more important than ever. In an important interview with the Texas Tribune, Poppa explains that ''the Mexico that I wrote about in the book describes the old order of things: Mexico under the PRI. In that sense, the book was out of date, because how drug trafficking operated under the PRI is completely different than how it works today in a new Mexico, under the democratically transformed Mexico...There has been a decoupling of the highest levels of power from drug trafficking now. It's important for people to understand that, so I had to bring the book up to date.''

Ringside Seat to a Revolution

Ringside Seat to a Revolution PDF Author: David Romo
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history of the Mexican Revolution of 1911 and the cities of El Paso and Juarez, and contains essays and archival photographs about Pancho Villa and other revolutionaries of the time.

Iron River

Iron River PDF Author: Daniel Acosta
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN: 1941026958
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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2019 Paterson Prize winner Skipping Stones Book Award Kirkus Reviews' Best YA Historical Fiction of 2018 A river runs through young Manny Maldonado Jr.’s life, heart and imagination. Sometimes at night it even shoots through his brain like a bullet. But this river isn’t water, it’s iron—the tracks and trains of the Southern Pacific railroad that pass along his tight-knit neighborhood in the San Gabriel valley just ten miles east of L.A. The iron river is everything to Man-on-Fire, Man for short to his friends, Little Man to his uncles and cousins. He watches it, he waits for it, he plays nears its tracks, he listens for the weight of its currents (strong currents flowing east pulling two hundred boxcars, light current going west with less than fifty cars), he whiles away long summer days throwing rocks and bricks at it with his friends Danny, Marco and Little. They line up cans and bottles in mock battles to try to throw it off track. But nothing derails the iron river, and nothing stops the stinking cop Turk from trying to pin a hobo’s murder on the four young boys.

Dirty Dealing

Dirty Dealing PDF Author: Gary Cartwright
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN: 1935955020
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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"Cartwright tells the story of the Chagra brothers, Lee and Joe, as they get mixed up with the drug-running community along the border and in short order find themselves hopelessly entangled in a net cast by the DEA. Even readers unfamiliar with the well-publicized events of the book or of the dark, lawless aspect that often rules El Paso will find themselves pulled along by the plot: brigands and intrigue leap from almost every page, and the story just gets wilder the further into it you venture."—from an Amazon.com review Four pages into this rollicking good story, the central figure, Lee Chagra, comes alive: "[Lee] washed his morning cocaine down with strong coffee and remembered the time he had met Sinatra, how genuine he appeared." Everything you'll need to know and remember about Chagra—the son of Syrian immigrants to Mexico and an attorney who spun the world of dope-running, border-crossing, high-living outlaws along the El Paso–Juarez border around his finger like the gaudy rings he favored—can be neatly summarized in that one sentence. Chagra dies two pages later, yet he haunts the rest of this cautionary tale like a high-rolling specter. Gary Cartwright is a long-respected, award-winning journalist and contributing editor to Texas Monthly magazine. The author of numerous books, he has contributed stories to such national publications as Harper's, Life, and Esquire. He lives in Austin, Texas.