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Author
Publisher
Children's Books Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture. The English-Spanish text...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From fighting as a gladiator through being fed to the lions, daily life in the Roman Empire was pretty deadly. dig up the past and find out just how horrible it was in this journey throught he Romans' dark and deadly history"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her...
Author
Series
I escaped volume 11
Publisher
Best Day Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It’s 1852, and California’s Gold Rush is in full swing. Tempers are flaring along the mighty Klamath River, where men are wild with gold-rush fever. 14-year-old Hudson treads carefully amongst them, desperate to find her long-lost father. She can only pray that he’ll take her in. A battle erupts between miners and local tribespeople, trapping Hudson in the crossfire. She is no fighter; she’s just a runaway kid from San...
