Diego's Birthday Surprise


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Diego and his friends plan a party to celebrate Baby Jaguar's birthday.







Learning from Latino Role Models


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Learning from Latino Role Models provides teachers with instructional resources that can be easily used in classroom settings so that they are culturally responsive to their Latino students. The book has two parts: Part I offers 20 sets of activities designed around Latino role models, and aims to help students learn how Latinos offer unique contributions to this nation. It is expected that these resources can help Latino schoolchildren find inspiration to realize their own goals. Part II offers 20 sets of activities around select picture books that reflect the Latino community and cultural heritage. The activities are designed to help children come to identify with the stories’ controlling themes as they address Latino culture, history, values, and experiences. In all, the instructional sets are complete with questions that motivate critical thinking; activity ideas that reinforce the meaning or the intended message of the story; and vocabulary to enhance students’ communication skills. Additionally, each set comes with corresponding worksheets for the students to complete.




Secret Agenda


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On paper, Vivienne Neal had a lifestyle most people would envy. Only she knows what a sham her marriage really was. So when her politician husband is killed in a hit-and-run accident, she moves to Florida and takes a job as a personal assistant to Diego Cole-Thomas, a powerful CEO with an intimidating reputation. Vivienne's intelligence and social grace prove invaluable to Diego, and on a business trip to South Carolina's lush Low Country, their business relationship takes a sensual detour. But when threatening letters arrive at Diego's office, he realizes that Vivienne's husband's death was no accident—and that she will meet a similar fate unless they can uncover the scandalous truth together….





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Sleepover Girls: Willow's Boy-Crazy Birthday


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Being a twin has its perks (especially when your twin is a boy). This year, Willow and Winston are holding their first ever co-ed birthday party, and everyone in class is invited. This means Win’s cute friend Jacob is on the guest list. Willow’s pumped that her crush will be coming over and gets the Sleepover Girls to help her plan a party that’s all kinds of awesome! But even the best-laid plans can go awry. Jacob seems to like Ashley, and mean girls Franny and Zoe are driving Willow nuts. Can the birthday girl pull it together and throw a memorable party, or will her birthday be a complete bust?




A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro"


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A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.







The Music of What Happens


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Thirteen-year-old Celina Zagoradniy-Montoya dreams of a different life; a life where her beloved father is alive again, where there's enough food and medicine for her sick brother, and where Mama doesn't have to work so hard. But when an answer to her impoverished family's prayers arrives in a form Celina did not anticipate and doesn't want, the conflicted young girl soon finds herself on a journey of self-discovery, a journey that leads her down a path wrought with fear, pain, and mistrust. Then, just as she is beginning to accept her new life, a stranger from the past appears and reveals the shocking secret Celina's mother has kept for years, a secret that will test Celina's faith and force her to question all she holds dear and leave her changed forever.




Chosen 3


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Christina Jackson was chosen by Diego Caraway, simply because somehow she seemed to have stolen his heart and soared above many others in what was only supposed to be a competition to choose his bride. After backstabbing Dena pulled unrealistic and drastic stunts to prove a point to Diego's mother Keisha, and to show Diego that he'd made a mistake by choosing Christina over her, it leaves the couple in shambles. Diego's thoughts, unfortunately, aren't on his marriage, which drives Christina to fantasize about an affair with her close friend Chad. He also neglects his friendships as he wallows in Dena's glory of defeating him and ripping through his family. To her dismay, Diego only serves a sentence of three months behind bars before he's free, and the hunt was on to find the villainous young woman. In the final installment, the couple comes face to face with Diego's addiction to liquor and money, and if he doesn't snap out of it, then he might have to come to grips with losing Christina for good. If not losing her because of his long nights and early mornings and his drunken messes, then it would most definitely be to a tall, corporate Black stallion whom Christina has already had relations with. Will he finally step up and leave the past behind him, and sober up just enough to prove his love for her before it's too late? Even the Caraway family is at odds when the truth about what Markiesha did to Dena is brought to the forefront. Christina must stand in between the three conniving people and try to patch things up before she makes the ultimate decision to walk away from all of the drama. But is there a shimmer of hope to stay and marry into the craziness? Is love even strong enough for her to claim Diego's hand after all that's happened? Is she as strong as she appears to be? Hopefully, Diego can show his woman why it was she was chosen in the first place before she slips out of his grasp and walks away into a much better life than the troubles that Jackson, Mississippi has held.