Maximilian and the Lucha Libre Club

Maximilian and the Lucha Libre Club
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Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2016-10-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1941026427

The fights still rage on in the third installation of Max's Lucha Libre Adventures series. Max seems like any other nerdy kid until he's asked to join the Lucha Libre Club. The super-secret club admits only the offspring of wrestling royalty. And Max is a prince, descended through his mother from royal blood, his uncle the very king of lucha libre: The Guardian Angel. Trouble is, the club is so secret that Max can't tell his best friend or girlfriend what he is up to. Just that vexing girl, Paloma. Xavier Garza lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Maximilian & the Lucha Libre Club

Maximilian & the Lucha Libre Club
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2016
Genre: Families
ISBN: 9781338262551

"Max seems like any other nerdy kid until he's asked to join the Lucha Libre Club. The super-secret club admits only the offspring of wrestling royalty. And Max is a prince, descended through his mother from royal blood, his uncle the very king of lucha libre: The Guardian Angel. Trouble is, the club is so secret that Max can't tell his best friend or girlfriend what he is up to. Just that vexing girl, Paloma." --supplied by publisher.

Maximilian and the Lucha Libre Club

Maximilian and the Lucha Libre Club
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016
Genre: Action and Adventure
ISBN: 9781484482377

Max seems like any other nerdy kid until he's asked to join the Lucha Libre Club. The super-secret club admits only the offspring of wrestling royalty. And Max is a prince, descended through his mother from royal blood, his uncle the very king of lucha libre: The Guardian Angel.

Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures #1)

Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures #1)
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Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1935955349

Margarito acts like any other eleven-year-old aficionado of lucha libre. He worships all the players. But in the summer just before sixth grade, he tumbles over the railing at a match in San Antonio and makes a connection to the world of Mexican wrestling that will ultimately connect him—maybe by blood!—to the greatest hero of all time: the Guardian Angel. A 2012 Pura Belpré Author Honor Award winner! Xavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An enthusiastic author, artist, teacher, and storyteller, his work is a lively documentation of the dreams, superstitions, and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of south Texas.

Iron River

Iron River
Author: Daniel Acosta
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1941026958

2019 Paterson Prize winner Skipping Stones Book Award Kirkus Reviews' Best YA Historical Fiction of 2018 A river runs through young Manny Maldonado Jr.’s life, heart and imagination. Sometimes at night it even shoots through his brain like a bullet. But this river isn’t water, it’s iron—the tracks and trains of the Southern Pacific railroad that pass along his tight-knit neighborhood in the San Gabriel valley just ten miles east of L.A. The iron river is everything to Man-on-Fire, Man for short to his friends, Little Man to his uncles and cousins. He watches it, he waits for it, he plays nears its tracks, he listens for the weight of its currents (strong currents flowing east pulling two hundred boxcars, light current going west with less than fifty cars), he whiles away long summer days throwing rocks and bricks at it with his friends Danny, Marco and Little. They line up cans and bottles in mock battles to try to throw it off track. But nothing derails the iron river, and nothing stops the stinking cop Turk from trying to pin a hobo’s murder on the four young boys.

A Full Moon is Rising

A Full Moon is Rising
Author: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1430130059

All around the world people are affected by and in awe of a full moon. In this poetic exploration of the lunar wonder, places near and far provide the backdrop for discovering celebrations, beliefs, customs and facts about the moon. From Broadway to Hong Kong to the International Space Station, the various perspectives, sparkling verses and depth of information create a fascinating rendering of a familiar, yet remarkable sight.

La Llorona

La Llorona
Author: Joe Hayes
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0938317865

A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

Maximilian & the Lucha Libre Club (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures #3) / Maximilian Y El Club de Lucha Libre: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller / Una Nove

Maximilian & the Lucha Libre Club (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures #3) / Maximilian Y El Club de Lucha Libre: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller / Una Nove
Author: Xavier Garza
Publisher: Max's Lucha Libre Adventures
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781941026410

Maximilian & the Lucha Libre Clubis the third book in Xavier Garza's award-winning series Max's Lucha Libre Adventures. Sixth-grader Max joins the Lucha Libre Club. Grab your masks and let the action begin! POW! Maximilian & the Lucha Libre Club es el tercer libro de la galardonada serie Max's Lucha Libre Adventures por Xavier Garza. Max, estudiante de sexto grado, se une al Club de Lucha Libre. ¡Ponganse sus máscaras y que empiece la acción! ¡POW! Cecilia, the love of Max's life, has moved to Los Angeles, and the new girl in town, the green-eyed vixen named Paloma, is JUST a friend. At least, that's how Max sees things. But despite what he thinks, the match is on between Cecilia and Paloma, both vying for the noble and wild heart that Max doesn't quite understand he has. The trick is that Max lives a double life only Paloma knows about. While he looks like a nerdy sixth-grader, in reality he's a prince, descended from royal blood. And his uncle is the most famous luchador of all time, the very king of lucha libre--the Guardian Angel. Will Paloma blow Max's cover to Cecilia? Max sure hopes not! Cecilia, el amor de la vida de Max, se mudó a Los Ángeles, y la chica nueva en la ciudad, la muchacha atractiva de ojos verdes llamada Paloma, es SOLO una amiga. Al menos, así es como Max ve las cosas. Pero, a pesar de lo que él piensa, Cecilia y Paloma están en la pelea, ambas compitiendo por el corazón noble y salvaje que Max no comprende completamente que tiene. El truco es que Max vive una doble vida que solo Paloma conoce. Si bien parece un nerd de sexto grado, en realidad es un príncipe, descendiente de sangre real. Y su tío es el luchador más famoso de todos los tiempos, el mismísimo rey de la lucha libre: el Ángel de la Guarda. ¿Paloma le revelará a Cecilia el secreto de Max? ¡Max verdaderamente espera que no!

Revenge of the Saguaro

Revenge of the Saguaro
Author: Tom Miller
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1933693908

Tom Miller's Southwest is a vortex of cockfights and cantinas, of black velvet paintings and tacky bolo ties, of eco-militants, border-crossers, and eccentric characters whose outlook is as spare and elemental as the desert that surrounds them. This is Miller's turf. With wit and insight, he reveals how the clichés of romanticism and capitalism have run amuck in his homeland. When a saguaro cactus outside Phoenix kills its own assassin, it becomes clear that no other guide to the Southwest manifests such a clear moral vision while reveling in the joy of this magnificent land and its people. Originally published by National Geographic as Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink, it received the Gold Award for Best Travel Book in 2000 from the Society of American Travel Writers. Tom Miller has been writing about the American Southwest and Latin America for more than three decades. His ten books include The Panama Hat Trail, which follows the making and marketing of one Panama hat, and Trading with the Enemy, which Lonely Planet says "may be the best travel book about Cuba ever written." Miller began his journalism career in the underground press of the late '60s and early '70s, and has written articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, Natural History, and Rolling Stone. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife, Regla.

Winter's Tail

Winter's Tail
Author: Juliana Hatkoff
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545348307

Describes the rescue and rehabilitation of a young Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, named Winter, who received an artificial tail after being badly injured when caught in a crab trap.