Author: Gail D. Villanueva
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338310526
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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* "Villanueva's debut is a beautiful #ownvoices middle-grade novel. Tough topics are addressed, but warmth and humor... bring lightness to Sab's story. This immersive novel bursts with life." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she's doomed! According to legend, she has one week before her fate catches up with her -- on her 11th birthday. With her time running out, all she wants is to celebrate her birthday with her entire family. But her sister, Ate Nadine, stopped speaking to their father one year ago, and Sab doesn't even know why.If Sab's going to get Ate Nadine and their father to reconcile, she'll have to overcome her fears -- of her sister's anger, of leaving the bubble of her sheltered community, of her upcoming doom -- and figure out the cause of their rift.So Sab and her best friend Pepper start spying on Nadine and digging into their family's past to determine why, exactly, Nadine won't speak to their father. But Sab's adventures across Manila reveal truths about her family more difficult -- and dangerous -- than she ever anticipated.Was the Butterfly right? Perhaps Sab is doomed after all!
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Category : Electronic musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Author: Anthony D. Robles
Publisher: Children's Book Press
ISBN: 0892392134
Category : Bilingual books
Languages : tl
Pages : 44
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Bilingual English/Tagalog. When Lakas discovers that the Makibaka Hotel is about to be sold, he leads a protest with his friends who are facing eviction.
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Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: Heinrich Balz
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Category : Akoose (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
ISBN: 9789712332890
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Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Author: Heinrich Balz
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ISBN: 9783496025641
Category : Akoose (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Author: Demetria Vargas
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796093319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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These essays are true narratives about the author’s life with her Philippine family of origin. It covers her childhood and early adult years in the Philippines between the 1950s and 1970s and her more than three decades of working as a permanent resident in Canada, and then continues with her retirement years alternating between these two countries. Reflecting on her roles as daughter, granddaughter, niece and sister to six siblings, she describes joyful and unhappy incidents in the context of alliances and alienations formed between her and her elders and those between her and her siblings. Stories about her magnificent parents and other elders show how life’s joys become more rewarding when shared with deserving, meaningful relations; those echoing from the valleys are reminders that when a hand is extended to somebody hurting, it invariably eases the pain and oftentimes inspires gratefulness and reciprocity. Both peak and valley journeys provide a glimpse into the all too often inexplicable intertwining of chance and choice as the actors in this sort of tragicomic family play sought validation for their respective sense of person at certain points in time.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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