Call Me Consuelo

Author : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920055
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me Consuelo written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After suddenly being orphaned, twelve-year-old Consuelo reluctantly moves in with her American grandmother while hoping to return soon to her Mexican American family. Consuelo, a recent arrival in Los Angeles, becomes involved in finding the criminals who are committing mysterious local robberies. Intrigue & danger weave a web around young Consuelo as she is thrust into a new life in unfamiliar surroundings & an exciting mystery that begs to be resolved.

Author : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613902540
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me Consuelo written by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After suddenly being orphaned, twelve-year-old Consuelo reluctantly moves in with her American grandmother while hoping to return soon to her Mexican American family.

Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807083879
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Consuelo written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Signe family is blessed with two daughters. Consuelo, the elder, is thought of as pensive and book-loving, the serious child-la niña seria-while Mili, her younger sister, is seen as vivacious, a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation, the other to charm and delight. But, for all the joy both girls should bring, something is not right in this Puerto Rican family; a tragedia is developing, like a tumor, at its core. In this fierce, funny, and sometimes startling novel, we follow a young woman's quest to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture and her family. magazine "Judith Ortiz Cofer has created a character who takes us by the hand on a journey of self-discovery. She reminds readers young and old never to forget our own responsibilities, and to enjoy life with all its joys and sorrows."--Bessy Reyna, MultiCultural Review

Author : Consuelo Roland
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1431405086
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Limbo written by Consuelo Roland and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Friday evening Daniel de Luc, an elusive crime writer with a deep love of poetry, disappears from a Camps Bay apartment while cooking pasta. His wife Paola, desperately worried after days of hearing nothing, is contacted by an eccentric stranger who claims to have known her missing husband under a different name and warns her not to look for him. Paola soon learns that her husband was involved in the shadowy world of the international sex industry, where well-heeled women pay men to become the anonymous fathers of their children. As her neat, controlled existence is turned inside out, Paola struggles to keep a level head and find her own humanity while trying to outwit her enemies and stay alive. The result is a fast-paced thriller that shifts between Cape Town and Paris, blending realism with the fantastic and pitting love against the attraction of sexual adventure.

Author : Juli‡n Olivares
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611921137
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decade II: A 20th Anniversary Anthology written by Juli‡n Olivares and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decade II: an Anniversary Anthology is a select collection from Revista Chicano-Rique–a/The Americas Review during the decade of 1983-1992, and a celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the founding in 1973 of the most important U.S. Hispanic literary magazine. For twenty years RCR/TAR has been a vanguard literary review. In its pages first appeared writers who would develop into our major writers. Those interested in the history and excitement of Latino literature of the past decade would do well to savor the selections of this Anniversary Anthology. An introduction by Juli‡n Olivares provides the historical and cultural context in which these works were created. Appearing alongside those writers whose works also appeared in the first anniversary Decade, are twenty-seven new and younger voices which speak of new experiences and from fresh perspectives, enriching and enlarging the horizon of U.S. Hispanic literature.

Author : Silviana Wood
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532478
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barrio Dreams written by Silviana Wood and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first-ever anthology of plays by Chicana playwright Silviana Wood"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545281547
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Island Like You written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio! Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.

Author : Helen Sneed
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822209812
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sally Blane, World's Greatest Girl Detective written by Helen Sneed and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Sally Blane, a pretty and indomitable seventeen-year-old, has solved mysteries all over the globe and has helped thousands of people in distress. Early in this, her latest adventure, she discovers that her father, Lane Blane, is being he

Author : Joan Parker Webster
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558856400
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching through Culture: Strategies for Reading and Responding to Young Adult Literature written by Joan Parker Webster and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly multicultural global community, teachers are striving to bring more culturally responsive materials to their classrooms. In this trailblazing text, Joan Parker Webster provides instructors with the basic tools to teach young adults Hispanic literature using selected texts and tailored methods for implementation in classes made up of culturally diverse students. She has chosen exemplary narrative works from some of the most respected authors of Latino literature. Teaching through Culture introduces teachers to key texts while providing ancillary information and methods to make teaching and reading experiences effective. A culturally responsive teacher builds on students' prior knowledge and employs appropriate styles of communication and interaction to engage students in learning. Parker Webster affirms that the use of texts that provide cultural connections is the most successful way to actively engage diverse learners and improve their comprehension. When students can see themselves in the stories they read, they encounter familiar ideas and situations, which lessen an often overwhelming and intimidating school environment. In each chapter, Joan Parker Webster provides the historical and cultural context for each text and applies strategies for understanding and teaching the text in the classroom. Each chapter is divided into the following sections: Synopsis of the Story, Background before You Read, Reading and Responding to the Story, Working with Words and Connecting across the Curriculum. Webster presents the works of such authors as Anilú Bernardo, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Ofelia Dumas Lachtman, Floyd Martínez, and Tomàs Rivera.

Author : Byron Lehman
Publisher : Byron Lehman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secrets Of Galapagos Man written by Byron Lehman and published by Byron Lehman. This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Thurston, a World War Two veteran, falls upon unbelievable wealth. He keeps it secret for years. Finally when near death he and his son, AJ, journey by sailboat to claim it. What happens on the way far surpasses any treasure they find. The adventure they experience brings them in contact with a cast of old and new friends, but more than any adventures experienced it draws them closer than ever imagined.