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To help her poverty-stricken family, 13-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for la migra
Author : Patricia Beatty
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2000-10-17
Category :
ISBN : 9780833586063
To help her poverty-stricken family, 13-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for la migra
Author : Paolo Israel
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0821444867
The helmet-shaped mapiko masks of Mozamxadbique have garnered admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure. This book restores to mapiko its historic and artistic context, charting in detail the transformations of this masquerading tradition throughout the twentieth century. Based on field research spanning seven years, this study shows how mapiko has undergone continuous reinvention by visionary individuals, has diversified into genres with broad generational appeal, and has enacted historical events and political engagements. This dense history of creativity and change has been sustained by a culture of competition deeply ingrained within the logic of ritual itself. The desire to outshine rivals on the dance ground drives performers to search for the new, the astonishing, and the topical. It is this spirit of rivalry and one-upmanship that keeps mapiko attuned to the times that it traverses. In Step with the Times is illustrated with vibrant photographs of mapiko masks and performances. It marks the most radical attempt to date to historicize an African performative tradition.
Author : Patricia Beatty
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 1984-10-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688038719
During the closing days of the Civil War, plucky 12-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yankee mill, struggles to return to the family she left behind in war-torn Georgia. "A fast-moving novel based upon an actual historical incident with a spunky heroine and fine historical detail."--School Library Journal. Author's note. "There are few authors who can consistently manage both to entertain and inform." --Booklist
Author : Alexandra Diaz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481457527
PURA BELPRÉ HONOR BOOK ALA NOTABLE BOOK “An important, must-have addition to the growing body of literature with immigrant themes.” —School Library Journal (starred review) Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous and life-changing journey from his home in Guatemala to live with his older brother in the United States in this “powerful and timely” (Booklist, starred review) middle grade novel. Jaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead. Everyone in Jaime’s small town in Guatemala knows someone who has been killed by the Alphas, a powerful gang that’s known for violence and drug trafficking. Anyone who refuses to work for them is hurt or killed—like Miguel. With Miguel gone, Jaime fears that he is next. There’s only one choice: accompanied by his cousin Ángela, Jaime must flee his home to live with his older brother in New Mexico. Inspired by true events, The Only Road is an individual story of a boy who feels that leaving his home and risking everything is his only chance for a better life. The story is “told with heartbreaking honesty,” Booklist raved, and “will bring readers face to face with the harsh realities immigrants go through in the hope of finding a better, safer life, and it will likely cause them to reflect on what it means to be human.”
Author : Patricia Beatty
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1992-10-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688110282
In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.
Author : Mary Alexander Walker
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689316388
In the eighth century, Scathach, the ancient shape-shifting female champion, appears to Maeve Moira, the daughter of a Celtic High King, and, pleased with her character, promises that her daughters--and the daughters of their daughters--will survive and possess Maeve's qualities.
Author : Patricia Beatty
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688144225
In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
Author : Patricia Beatty
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 1990-12
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780833558350
The war is over, but the struggle continues for 14 -year-old Hannalee and her family. Blaming the Yankees for her misfortunes, Hannalee gets a job in Atlanta and things begin to look hopeful again, But when her brother is arrested for a crime he did not commit, Hannalee must put herself on the line to protect him, and she gradually comes to learn that there are good and bad people everywhere.
Author : Tove Hussein
Publisher : T. Hussein
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Patricia Beatty
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780688100773
The heart-pounding story of a Texan boy's transformation to a Comanche brave and back again. With Pa off fighting in the Civil War, Lewallen Collier and his little sister are captured in a bloody Comanche raid. Admiring Lewallen's courage, the Indians give him the name Sings His War Song and try to teach him the ways of a young brave. But Lewtie dreams only of escape -- and of the day he can return to rescue little Eula Bee.