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Book Synopsis The Américas Award by : Laretta Henderson
Download or read book The Américas Award written by Laretta Henderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere. The Award is unique in that selects Latino/a youth literature for classroom use and in that it focuses on the entire Western Hemisphere. Scholars from the fields of literature, education, lbrary science, and theater engage with Latino/a Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) in this ecollection of essays about the Américas Award, the Award-winning and honored books, and the contexts in which the books are used. This collection offers essays on the history of the award, close readings of Award-winning and honored books situated in the classroom, and discussions of how best to use the books in the classroom, library and theater.
Book Synopsis Immigration and Children’s Literature by : Wilma Robles-Melendez
Download or read book Immigration and Children’s Literature written by Wilma Robles-Melendez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the issues faced by immigrant children through the lens of children's literature. The authors employ the UN convention of the Rights of the Child, the lens of equity, and Freire's principles of critical consciousness as a framework for analysing children's literature and immigration. They focus on circumstances and experiences of immigration from the perspective of young children who are leaving their homelands and growing up as immigrants. The book focuses primarily on children from birth to 8 years old but with crossover and implications for older children. The chapters reveal the social, economic, and political issues faced by child immigrants, refugees and asylees throughout the global context, viewed through and alongside children's literature. The book provides suggestions for the implementation of children's literature in the curriculum and provides tools for educators and researchers working with immigrant and refugee children, showing how they can better understand their students and families. A variety of children's literature is covered, including analysis of works by Jairo Buitrago, Yanksook Choi, Sandra leGuen, Rosemary McCartney, Bao Phi and Jeanette Winter.
Book Synopsis Bridges to Understanding by : Linda Pavonetti
Download or read book Bridges to Understanding written by Linda Pavonetti and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 and 2009. This annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, with descriptions of nearly 700 books representing more than 70 countries, is a valuableresource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. Like its predecessors, it will be an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.
Download or read book Angelina's Choice written by Nick Bryan and published by Nick Bryan. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Finding my real parents isn’t as simple as I hoped, but after all the trouble Hobson’s past gives us, surely I’m owed my chance?” After solving other people’s cases all summer, Angelina Choi is itching to look into her most personal mystery - who were her birth-parents? Why did they abandon their infant daughter in a cardboard box next to a pub? But with her detective boss John Hobson trapped in the dark underbelly of London’s trendy online taxi services, Angelina ploughs on with her investigation alone. Will her single-minded obsession cause irreparable harm? Can discovering the truth about her family make her happy? Angelina’s Choice, the fifth volume in the Hobson & Choi series, brings the dark comedy-drama detective saga to a crossroads, with every character forced to question their decisions past and present. But as the end looms nearer, their options are vanishing.
Book Synopsis Angelina's Island by : Jeanette Winter
Download or read book Angelina's Island written by Jeanette Winter and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, Angelina dreams of her home in Jamaica and imagines she is there, until her mother finds a wonderful way to convince her that New York is now their home.
Download or read book Let Her Cry written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Angelina's Journey by : Gwen Beaudean Thoma EdD
Download or read book Angelina's Journey written by Gwen Beaudean Thoma EdD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1901 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angelina’s Journey is a sequel to Gwen Thoma’s fifth book, The King of Hearts. Angelina Harper is a nineteen-year-old college freshmen at Southeast Missouri State College in 1967. She had just declared her major in the nursing program at the college when she became a key witness in the trial of John Noble, better known as the King of Hearts. Angelina had been stalked by John Noble for three years while she was in high school. She and the police had discovered that her stalker had been murdering Angelina’s boyfriends in high school and had left king of hearts playing cards with each body of these seven young men. Angelina knew she was being stalked but did not discover that he was a serial killer until she and the police realized the King of Hearts was following her and leaving king of hearts playing cards wherever she went. Angelina thought that she was done with her stalker once he was caught and sentenced to life in prison. Nothing was further from the truth. Somehow, he knew what was going on in her life, and he sent her letters and called her with threatening warnings. Angelina’s saga continues until the dramatic and suspenseful end to her journey. This book is filled with mystery, suspense, and romance as Angelina lives the rest of her life.
Book Synopsis Matching Books and Readers by : Nancy L. Hadaway
Download or read book Matching Books and Readers written by Nancy L. Hadaway and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.
Download or read book Angelina written by Gerard Hindmarsh and published by Craig Potton Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together they shared their own struggles, their different cultures and lack of English language; a process that awakened Angelina to her own inner strengths. Angelina and Vincenzo finally left D'Urville Island in 1946, and both died within a few months of each other in Wellington in 1954.
Book Synopsis Angelina at the Palace by : Katharine Holabird
Download or read book Angelina at the Palace written by Katharine Holabird and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Puffin, 2005.
Book Synopsis The New Life of Angelina by : Teresa Maldonado
Download or read book The New Life of Angelina written by Teresa Maldonado and published by EBL Books. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dark-humored, satirical novel, set in the humble outskirts of Madrid, explores the pressures of modern life under the influence of advertising. Angelina, — formerly Mari Pili — tries to escape from a life she considers vulgar by taking refuge in a parasocial relationship with her favorite Hollywood actress and in the consumption of luxury goods with which she develops a fetishistic obsession. Gradually, Mari Pili becomes immersed in the virtual world of social media and believes she has found love. But, ultimately, real life always breaks through.
Download or read book Wounded Warriors written by Mike Sager and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell prided himself on being a hard-core Marine—a patriotic Devil Dog on his third tour of Iraq. Then his brain was shredded with mortar shrapnel. Today, Maxwell has a large angry scar on the left side of his head. He forgets words, his wife has to read to him, and he drags one foot when he walks. Yet he works twelve-hour days as commander of the Wounded Warrior Barracks at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. For these warriors, Iraq and Afghanistan will never quite be in the past. And the struggle never ends. Other stories in Wounded Warriors depict life inside an L.A. crack gang, ex-pat Vietnam War veterans in Thailand, and five days in Las Vegas with basketball anti-hero Kobe Bryant—all of it captured stylishly by the writer who has been called “the beat poet of American journalism.”
Book Synopsis Angelina Jolie - The Lightning Star by : C. Duthel
Download or read book Angelina Jolie - The Lightning Star written by C. Duthel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-04 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, and goddaughter of actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mother's side, she is of primarily French Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry, as well as of distant Huron heritage.
Book Synopsis The Family of Brad and Angelina and the Breaking of 7 Seals. «Repair» and «Restart» of Our World. Part 1. The Wisdom of Brad, the Kingdom of Angelina. Necklace with a Star of Jolie and Noah's ark. Movies as Hints by : Elah
Download or read book The Family of Brad and Angelina and the Breaking of 7 Seals. «Repair» and «Restart» of Our World. Part 1. The Wisdom of Brad, the Kingdom of Angelina. Necklace with a Star of Jolie and Noah's ark. Movies as Hints written by Elah and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family of Brad and Angelina and mysteries of the 7 seals and the Sefirot of the Tree of Life. A slain Lamb and the 7 Angels of the Presence. The heel of Achilles and the wisdom of Brad Pitt. The ark of the Covenant and necklace Star of Jolie. «World War Z» and «Maleficent» – the confrontation between the conscious and the unconscious. «Ad Astra» – a meeting in space as access to the 4th layer of reality. Transitions between layers, tips-keys, exit of the labyrinth. A «reboot» of the world.
Book Synopsis The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books by :
Download or read book The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sicilian Spring written by Dave Wilcox and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When writer Roger Culberson consents to tour Sicily and create a travel guide for a tour company, he believes it is his last opportunity to recover his life. With the tragic death of his wife, he is lost in guilt and remorse. In the ancient mountain village of Amida, Sicily, he encounters Angelina Molintorie, a teacher half his age. A fire is lit that engulfs them but the moment is fleeting since Roger must move on. Fatefully they meet again. He learns she is the daughter of a once powerful Aristocrat and is engaged, through a traditional wedding contract, to Gino Aiellio, the son of the local Mafia leader. In defiance of tradition, her family and Ginos objection, Angelina agrees to assist Roger by doing research on the sites to be included in Rogers travel guide. With that decision the harmonious existence of the village is interrupted, and Ginos ambition to follow in his fathers footsteps and his marriage to Angelina is threatened. As the relationship develops, their families attempt to dissuade them and Ginos jealousy turns into vengeance to recover his honor. At the same time Gino begins a plan to obtain control of his fathers Mafia Family, and to also fight the Mafia Commission in Palermo. Rogers intrusion into their lives results in betrayal, violence and murder. Gino threatens Angelina with Rogers death if she does not honor their marriage arrangement. Fearful for Rogers life Angelina ends the relationship without any explanation to Roger and a wedding date is set to marry Gino. Roger, back in America, recovers his career. And though time passes, he doesnt give up hope of hearing from Angelina. His patience is rewarded. In a daring undertaking he attempts to rescue Angelina from the Mafias grasp and, in so doing, initiates the final confrontation with Gino.
Book Synopsis Texas National Forests and Grasslands Revised Land and Resource(s) Management Plan (LRMP) by :
Download or read book Texas National Forests and Grasslands Revised Land and Resource(s) Management Plan (LRMP) written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
