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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their farm from foreclosure, Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers that they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
La familia de Mari se encuentra a la deriva, con una gran necesidad de trabajo, pero se ve forzada a esconderse por miedo a que las autoridades los devuelvan a México y a la pobreza.La familia de Tyler lucha...
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
La mas esperada novela de Arturo Perez-reverte podria no haber llegado nuca a las librerias. La apasionate historia con la que ratifica sus innegables dotes literarias y un magistral dominio de las tecnicas narrativas quiza pudiera haberse resumido en tres minutos de musica y palabras. Entonces se habria convertido en uno de los muchos corridos que cantan las "gestas" de los narcotraficantes mexicanos. Pero el escritor espanol mas aclamado dentro...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Speaking Out Loud is a collection of lectures offered by Carlos Fuentes at different times of his life about cultural themes. They are divided into three parts: teachers, friends, and vocation. In them, he speaks intensely about his relationship with literature nationally and universally, about his own works, his friends, and about those he considered his teachers.
A viva voz recopila una serie de conferencias culturales, divididas en tres partes,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A stranger in a strange land, Bolivar De La Cruz has just crossed the border from Mexico in search of a better life. In contrast, restless, club-hopping second-generation immigrant Lola has the American Dream at her fingertips but feels like a stranger in her own life, forever caught between appeasing her old-world mother and following her heart. On the surface, despite their shared ethnic heritage, Bolivar and Lola have little in common. But when...
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
"This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in contemporary Latin-American fiction. Readers will meet a Mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a man's lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
En este libro conocerás la historia de mujeres que lucharon para abrirse paso ¡Y lo lograron! Desobedecer a veces no le hace daño a nadie y menos si es para cumplir nuestras metas. Si la vida nos queda corta, ¡expandámosla! Por que somos muchas, aquí encontrarás más mujeres mexicanas inspiradoras, talentosas y temerarias que se atrevieron a llegar donde su corazón las mandaba, sin dejar que nadie les dijera que no se podía.
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