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Author | : Valerie S Kreutzer |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2008-12-23 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0595612172 |
She was found abandoned in the lavatory of a cafeteria in Bogota, Colombia. The police who picked her up named her Maria Consuelo. From a stack of would-be parents, Colombias welfare agency chose Valerie Kreutzers application, and the toddler quickly bonded with her new mom in Washington, DC. At school Maria struggled with severe learning disabilities despite a superior I.Q., but also blossomed into an award-winning young artist. Her impulsive behavior led to fits and false starts during adolescence, until she found happiness at twenty-one with David and his extended family. Their love and lives ended in the curve of a rural road in Florida. A Girl Named Maria chronicles an adopted daughters struggle with identity and her yearning for a birth family that may have included a twin brother. Marias legacy lives on in this poignant personal story of one mothers unconditional love for her adopted daughter. I loved this book! This story, although carrying the deep sorrow of a daughters death, will give parents of transnational adoptions a guideline for their own experience. This book is a much needed addition to the adoption literature. Nancy Verrier, The Primal Wound; Coming Home to Self www.nancyverrier.com
Author | : Maria Shriver |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2001-10-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0759526311 |
What is the response when a child points out that a disabled child or adult looks 'different'? Shriver tells the story of Kate, who finds that making friends with a mentally retarded boy helps her learn that the two of them have a lot in common.
Author | : Leonard Bernstein |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9780435235284 |
This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.
Author | : Marytza K. Rubio |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2022-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1324090553 |
Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut. “The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in “Brujería for Beginners” reminds us: “There’s always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won’t always know what it is until payment is due.” This commitment drives the disturbingly faithful widow in “Tijuca,” who promises to bury her husband’s head in the rich dirt of the jungle, and the sisters in “Moksha,” who are tempted by a sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol. But magic isn’t limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in “Tunnels,” and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected saber-toothed tiger in “Burial.” A colorful catalog of gallery exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in “Art Show,” including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid Peacocks. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, “Maria, Maria”—a tropigoth family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction.
Author | : Alma Flor Ada |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1995-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 068980217X |
Third grader Mara Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school--and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.
Author | : Sonia Manzano |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0545621860 |
Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1970s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and nosy neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an alcoholic father. But it is Sonia's dream of becoming an actress that keeps her afloat among the turbulence of her life and times. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions.
Author | : Mauricia D Mathews |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2006-12-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1412238714 |
A Journey to the Unknown of a Young Girl Named Kahache is sensational. It will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you live again.
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Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Easton (Northampton County, Pa.) |
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Author | : Easton, PA. First Reformed Church |
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Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1902 |
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Author | : Catherine Gourley |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2002-07-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0399540083 |
Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of her art form to become America's first prima ballerina. Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of this amazing dancer.