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The Summer Of El Pintor
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Book Synopsis The Summer of El Pintor by : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Download or read book The Summer of El Pintor written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.
Book Synopsis Summer of El Pintor by : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Download or read book Summer of El Pintor written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Monica discovers a mysterious letter forgotten since her mother's death. She is drawn into a web of questions surrounding the disappearance of her neighbor, El Pintor.
Book Synopsis Looking for La nica by : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Download or read book Looking for La nica written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mysterious and valuable guitar is stolen from the shop belonging to old friends of her family, Monica determines to find out what really happened and to uncover the guitar's well-kept secret.
Book Synopsis Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative by : Kathy Leonard
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative written by Kathy Leonard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of narrative work published by Chicana and Latina authors in the past 5 to 10 years. Nonetheless, there has been little attempt to catalog this material. This reference provides convenient access to all forms of narrative written by Chicana and Latina authors from the early 1940s through 2002. In doing so, it helps users locate these works and surveys the growth of this vast body of literature. The volume cites more than 2,750 short stories, novels, novel excerpts, and autobiographies written by some 600 Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Nuyorican women authors. These citations are grouped in five indexes: an author/title index, title/author index, anthology index, novel index, and autobiography index. Short annotations are provided for the anthologies, novels, and autobiographies. Thus the user who knows the title of a work can discover the author, the other works the author has written, and the anthologies in which the author's shorter pieces have been reprinted, along with information about particular works.
Book Synopsis A Good Place For Maggie by : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Download or read book A Good Place For Maggie written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Maggie Cruz leaves her mother's and stepfathers's big city Los Angeles home in order to lead a simpler life in her grandfather's small town house and gains fresh perspective on her life.
Book Synopsis Latina and Latino Voices in Literature by : Frances A. Day
Download or read book Latina and Latino Voices in Literature written by Frances A. Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of an award-winning resource celebrates the lives and works of 35 Latina and Latino authors who write for today's young readers. Expanded to include 12 additional authors, updated information on the original 23 authors profiled, and 135 new titles, this comprehensive reference tool helps teachers, librarians, and parents stay current on one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary literature. Both established and emerging voices are profiled. Personal quotes and photographs introduce each biographical essay, presenting information gathered through interviews, personal communications, and research. A complete list of all books and works written by the author is included along with publication information. Annotations are provided for most of the titles, along with information on major themes, awards won, and recommended age levels. Evaluating Books for Bias provides helpful guidelines for examining and selecting books from a pluralistic perspective. Appendices offer further helpful information about the field, including special awards honoring books by Latinas and Latinos, a calendar of holidays and special days celebrated by the Latino community, and listings of related resources and organizations. The author has also compiled ideas for classroom activities and ways for librarians to extend the literary experience. A title index and extensive topic index—including themes, curricular areas, and genres—help in planning story sessions and study units. This is a multipurpose resource for anyone who wants to help young readers connect with contemporary literature in a meaningful way.
Book Synopsis An Open Window by : Linda Channah Ehrlich
Download or read book An Open Window written by Linda Channah Ehrlich and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in English exclusively devoted to an analysis of the films of one of Spain's most important film directors, V'ctor Erice. Drawing on original essays, reprints, and new translations from an international group of writers, this anthology will help open a window into a deeper appreciation of Erice's three haunting feature-length films.
Book Synopsis Charles Deering and Ramón Casas / Charles Deering Y Ramón Casas by : Isabel Coll Mirabent
Download or read book Charles Deering and Ramón Casas / Charles Deering Y Ramón Casas written by Isabel Coll Mirabent and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated, bilingual art book presents drawings by Ramón Casas in the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at the Northwestern University Library and oil paintings by Casas from private collections and the Art Institute of Chicago. Charles Deering and Ramón Casas follows the development and dramatic dissolution of a three-way friendship that connected the Spanish painter Ramón Casas (1866–1932); the Chicago industrialist Charles Deering (1852–1927), who was a collector and admirer of Casas’s work as well as a patron of Northwestern University; and the Spanish artist Miguel Utrillo (1862–1934), Casas’s lifelong friend and the father of the French painter Maurice Utrillo. Casas introduced Deering to Sitges, a beach town near Barcelona, Spain, where the latter created a palatial estate with a museum to house his art collection. Miguel Utrillo served as director of the museum. The text explores the treasures housed at Maricel and what happened among the three men that led Casas to abandon Utrillo and Deering to depart Spain, taking his art collection with him.
Book Synopsis Leticia's Secret by : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Download or read book Leticia's Secret written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing, fast-paced novel traces the blossoming relationship between young Rosario Silva and her enigmatic cousin Leticia. As Rosario and Leticia begin to share more and more, Rosario learns her cousinÍs shocking secret.
Book Synopsis Quesadilla Moon by : Gary D. Castillo
Download or read book Quesadilla Moon written by Gary D. Castillo and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David, a young migrant worker, tells how he discovered his voice. How his dreams come true to become a singer, in spite of roadblocks set up by his family and society.
Book Synopsis Hispanic Literature of the United States by : Nicolás Kanellos
Download or read book Hispanic Literature of the United States written by Nicolás Kanellos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a detailed historical overview of Hispanic literature in the United States from the Spanish colonial period to the present, this extensive chronology provides the context within which such writers as Sandra Cisneros, Rodolfo Anaya, and Oscar Hijuelos have worked. Hispanic literature in the United States is covered from the Spanish colonial period to the present. A detailed historical overview and a separate survey of Hispanic drama provide researchers and general readers with indispensable information and insight into Hispanic literature. An extensive chronology traces the development of Hispanic literature and culture in the United States from 1492 to 2002, providing the context within which such Hispanic writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Rodolfo Anaya, and Oscar Hijuelos have worked. Topics include an overview and chronology of Hispanic literature in the United States, a who's who of Hispanic authors, significant trends, movements, and themes, publishing trends, an overview of Hispanic drama, adn the 100 essential Hispanic literary works. Biographical entries describe the careers, importance, and major works of notable Hispanic novelists, poets, and playwrights writing in English or Spanish. A comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography lists primary sources. Essays detail the most important past and current trends in Hispanic literature, including bilingualism, Chicano literature, children's literature, exile literature, folklore, immigrant literature, Nuyorican literature, poetry, and women and feminism in Hispanic literature. More than 100 exceptional illustrations of writers, plays in performance, and first editions of important works are included.
Book Synopsis A Promise to Keep by : Mario Bencastro
Download or read book A Promise to Keep written by Mario Bencastro and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Sergio, struggling to honor his grandfather's wish to be buried in El Salvador, undertakes a journey filled with unexpected disasters, triumphs, and the memory of his beloved Abuelo.
Book Synopsis The Truth about Las Mariposas by : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Download or read book The Truth about Las Mariposas written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixteen-year-old Caro Torres goes to help her Tia Matilda at her bed-and-breakfast in Two Sands, California, she ends up also helping her aunt fend off the attempts of her ex-husband to buy the property and steal the treasures that are hidden there.
Book Synopsis The Trouble with Tessa by : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Download or read book The Trouble with Tessa written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Tessa's father inexplicably makes her change her summer plans, she spends the summer wondering what he is hiding, experimenting with magic spells, and making a new friend.
Book Synopsis Strange Parents by : Julia Mercedes Castilla
Download or read book Strange Parents written by Julia Mercedes Castilla and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling novel about immigration for intermediate readers details the difficulties encountered by children separated from their parents
Book Synopsis Family Disintegration by : Anton Purcell
Download or read book Family Disintegration written by Anton Purcell and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary family is being distracted, disturbed and distraught by societal pressures from every direction. The nuclear family concept, believed crucial to child rearing, is becoming passé according to census data. Or has the wave of disruption to families crested? It is hoped that this bibliography will serve as a useful tool to researchers seeking further information on families and the pressures being exerted upon them in the 21st century.
Book Synopsis The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature [3 volumes] by : Nicolás Kanellos
Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature [3 volumes] written by Nicolás Kanellos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From East L.A. to the barrios of New York City and the Cuban neighborhoods of Miami, Latino literature, or literature written by Hispanic peoples of the United States, is the written word of North America's vibrant Latino communities. Emerging from the fusion of Spanish, North American, and African cultures, it has always been part of the American mosaic. Written for students and general readers, this encyclopedia surveys the vast landscape of Latino literature from the colonial era to the present. Aiming to be as broad and inclusive as possible, the encyclopedia covers all of native North American Latino literature as well as that created by authors originating in virtually every country of Spanish America and Spain. Included are more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries written by roughly 60 expert contributors. While most of the entries are on writers, such as Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Oscar Hijuelos, and Piri Thomas, others cover genres, ethnic and national literatures, movements, historical topics and events, themes, concepts, associations and organizations, and publishers and magazines. Special attention is given to the cultural, political, social, and historical contexts in which Latino literature has developed. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. The encyclopedia gives special attention to the social, cultural, historical, and political contexts of Latino literature, thus making it an ideal tool to help students use literature to learn about history and cultural diversity.