The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown

The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown
Author: Crystal Allen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062342355

A hilarious and spunky new heroine in the vein of the heroines of such beloved books as Ramona the Pest, Ivy and Bean, and Clementine, from Crystal Allen—the acclaimed author of How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy. Nine-year-old Mya Tibbs is boot-scootin’ excited for the best week of the whole school year—SPIRIT WEEK! She and her megapopular best friend, Naomi Jackson, even made a pinky promise to be Spirit Week partners so they can win the big prize: special VIP tickets to the Fall Festival! But when the partner picking goes horribly wrong, Mya gets paired with Mean Connie Tate—the biggest bully in school. And she can’t get out of it. Good gravy. Now Naomi is friend-ending mad at Mya for breaking a promise—even though Mya couldn’t help it—and everyone at school is calling Mya names. Can Mya work with Mean Connie to win the VIP tickets and get her best friend back?

The Magnificent Maya

The Magnificent Maya
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN:

Explores the history of Maya civilization through the archaeological discoveries found in Mexico and Central America.

Tikal

Tikal
Author: Elizabeth Mann
Publisher: Mikaya Press
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 193141405X

A history of the Maya Indians in the city of Tikal, founded in 800 B.C.

Living Maya

Living Maya
Author: Walter F. Morris
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1987
Genre: Design
ISBN:

Looks at the daily life and culture of the modern Maya people and discusses the connections with the civilization of their ancient ancestors.

Maya The Magnificent

Maya The Magnificent
Author: Robin L. Patrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-10-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780578601168

Maya the Magnificent! is the story of a beautiful angel, named Maya, who visits Earth and captures the hearts of the Collins family who fall in love with their new bundle of joy. But alas, some angels are just too pure and too bright to live on Earth, and Maya must return to Heaven after cancer dims her natural light. It is based on the true story of Maya Collins, who valiantly battled leukemia for 6 1/2 years, and passed away on October 3, 2017 at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. A touching story, sprinkled throughout with Maya's whimsicle drawings, that tries to make sense of such a tragedy and provides comfort to families dealing with a similar loss of a child. Net proceeds from the sale of this book benefit the Live Like Maya Foundation to help raise funds for research, better treatment options, and cures for pediatric cancer as well as to help alleviate the financial burdens for families managing childhood cancer. For more information please visit: www.LiveLikeMaya.org.

A Maya Universe in Stone

A Maya Universe in Stone
Author: Stephen Houston
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606067451

The first study devoted to a single sculptor in ancient America, as understood through four unprovenanced masterworks traced to a small sector of Guatemala. In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book. The lintels he discovered there, long since looted, are probably of a set with two others that are among the masterworks of Maya sculpture from the Classic period. Using fieldwork, physical evidence, and Lamb’s expedition notes, the authors identify a small area with archaeological sites where the carvings were likely produced. Remarkably, the vividly colored lintels, replete with dynastic and cosmic information, can be assigned to a carver, Mayuy, who sculpted his name on two of them. To an extent nearly unique in ancient America, Mayuy can be studied over time as his style developed and his artistic ambition grew. An in-depth analysis of Laxtunich Lintel 1 examines how Mayuy grafted celestial, seasonal, and divine identities onto a local magnate and his overlord from the kingdom of Yaxchilan, Mexico. This volume contextualizes the lintels and points the way to their reprovenancing and, as an ultimate aim, repatriation to Guatemala.

The Sacred Maya Smoking Shell

The Sacred Maya Smoking Shell
Author: Manuel M. Novelo
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469790742

This is a story of the great Maya city of Lamanai [circa 650 A. D.] its ruins are located in present day southern Orange Walk District, Belize. The story of its ruler who was determined to help defend its sister city Chac'temal from invading armies of the Far North cities at all cost necessary.......... Also of a young peasant boy whose name was Box Belam [Bosh Blam] he was born and raised in the magnificent Maya City of Lamanai in the west banks of a beautiful lagoon. By the age of fourteen, he had his mind well made up. He would become a member of the famous widely loved Lamanai's Royal Pok-A-Tok team. [Ball game] Nothing or nobody would stop him. After the sacred ceremony that initiated him into manhood ro better prepare him in becoming a soldier and a member of lamanai's royal ball team, he was sent on a mission that almost caused him his life........ Box's friends and mentor had been killed in an ambush attack by spies of the Far North cities, near the city of Altun-Ha. Having been inflicted with the sever wound, Box had fled into the inhospitable and dangerous rainforest but... it was only his refuge. He had been wandering lost, sick, and weak in the jungle for days but his determination to survive and return to his beloved city of Lamanai, his people and the girl he had fallen in love with, was great........... Moreover, he was also determined to survive so that one day he could find and eliminate the people responsible for the death of his friends and mentor. For many days he walked through the rainforest, looking out for the enemy, and surviving on wild fruits when he came across two men who.... A story of adventure, war, courage, treachery, love and rise to greatness in an ancient civilization.

The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings

The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings
Author: David Drew
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2002-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520234581

An in-depth discussion of the latest archeological findings about the Mayan civilization explores the sophistication of this long-misunderstood culture and addressing such issues as why the civilization disappeared, why they built cities in jungles, and more.

Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya

Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya
Author:
Publisher: Vendome Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780865652842

Traces the rise and fall of Maya civilization through its great royal cities, from El Mirador, the largest and oldest, to the rival city-states of the Classical period such as Tikal, Calakmul, Yaxchilán, Palenque, Toniná, and Copán. He then moves on to the great cities of the Terminal Classic period; at a time when the mighty centers of the southern lowlands were in a steep decline, cities to the north such as Uxmal and Kabah achieved a pinnacle of architectural beauty. After that he turns to the Postclassic period and Chichén Itzá in central Yucatán, a huge, cosmopolitan city that flourished during a military and cultural takeover by the Toltecs of central Mexico.