Blanca Camacho
Author
Pub. Date
1998, 1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Leo es, sencillamente, un reto�o tardio". La mama de Leo esta en lo cierto y, cuando Leo al fin florece, es una ocasion de regocijo para todos.
Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
The night before Christmas: Clement C. Moore's classic poem about a visit from St. Nicholas. Max's Christmas: Max is told he can't stay up to see Santa, but he sneaks downstairs anyway. Will Santa still come if Max is awake? Morris's disappearing bag: Morris thinks his brother and sister have better Christmas presents, but then he finds something very special in the last box under the tree. Owl moon: A young girl and her father take a magical night-time...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Appears on list
Description
The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later. The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked...