Cecilias Magical Mission

Author : Viola Canales
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 1518505619
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cecilia’s Magical Mission written by Viola Canales and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone in fourteen-year-old Cecilia’s Mexican-American community has a don—a special gift or talent. Her father, who’s named after St. Anthony, helps people find things, or parts of themselves, that they’ve lost. Paco, the janitor in the building where she lives, can tell fortunes. Cecilia can’t figure out hers, and she really needs to since her confirmation is coming up. The truth is, Cecilia doesn’t really believe people have celestial gifts. Her opinion begins to change when she gets apprenticed to Dona Faustina, who has a magic way with coffee. Soon Cecilia realizes that her apprenticeship involves something more sinister than a mystical brew! And on a trip back to the special Mexican village of Santa Cecilia, she and her friends Julie and Lebna learn something about friendship, community and the powers of good and evil. Award-winning author Viola Canales returns with an appealing novel for teens that highlights a Mexican-American immigrant community and the conflict first-generation young adults experience caught between contemporary American life and their parents’ traditional ways.

Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1925162893
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic Fair written by Sally Morgan and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kayla could not be more excited to visit the carnival—a day filled with cotton candy and fun rides. But Kayla and her mean cousin Peter quickly discover that there's much more to be had at this particular festival. The sign at the entrance says “Magic Fair, Beware”—but will they? Humorous and imaginative, this beautifully illustrated story delivers a strong moral of not being greedy and looking out for others.

Author : Todd Clark
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449458491
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ice Cream Kid: Brain Freeze! written by Todd Clark and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Irwin Snackcracker leaves for school in the morning all he can think about is pizza, tater-tots, and winning first place in the booger contest. He leaps down the bannister, quickly eats breakfast before brushing his teeth and dashing out the door. Little does Irwin know, this day will change his life. He is just one brain freeze away from superpowers! When Irwin unexpectedly scores the last Fudgsicle left in the ice cream cart at school, he finds out that he is no longer an ordinary fourth grader. Taking a big bite of the delicious frozen treat transforms Irwin into "The Ice Cream Kid" who, with a steady supply of ice cream, has the ability to run at lightning speed and talk to animals along the way! Even though Irwin isn't sure if he wants to fight crime, he puts riding bikes with his friends on hold to learn how his new powers work. With his superhero Grandpa and sarcastic side-kick, Bert the pigeon, Irwin learns to control his powers, culminating in the ultimate showdown with Sweaty Crocker, the villainous evil lunch lady, poisoner of children.

Author : Margaret Sidney
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557095914
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Little Peppers and How They Grew written by Margaret Sidney and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New England in the late nineteenth century, a fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman and his young son.

Author : Ann Walsh
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554696216
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flower Power written by Ann Walsh and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has a protest to save a tree gone too far? Callie's mother has chained herself to the neighbor's tree and is living inside the treehouse. She refuses to come down until the neighbor, Mr. Wilson, agrees to leave the tree standing. Soon reporters arrive, followed by an activist group called the Singing Grannies and a gang of bikers—each group adding to the chaos. Callie doesn't want to deal with any of them but she needs to figure out how to get her mother to come down from the tree so that her life can return to normal.

Author : Jacqueline Jules
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515823431
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Day Is Exciting written by Jacqueline Jules and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sofia is around, every moment of every day is exciting. This spunky 7-year-old can even make having the hiccups fun! Can you imagine what kind of fun Sofia will have at her first quincea_era or when the lights go out? No matter what happens, it will be memorable if Sofia is involved! This early chapter book from the Sofia Martinez series includes Spanish words in the text and a Spanish glossary.

Author : Jeska Verstegen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1646141180
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'll Keep You Close written by Jeska Verstegen and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from? When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid. With the help of an old family photo album, her father's encyclopedia collection, and the unquestioning friendship of a stray cat, the silence begins to melt into frightening clarity: Jeska's family survived a terror that they’ve worked hard to keep secret all her life. And somehow, it has both nothing and everything to do with her, all at once. A true story of navigating generational trauma as a child, I'll Keep You Close is about what comes after disaster: how survivors move forward, what they bring with them when they do, and the promise of beginning again while always keeping the past close.

Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480402699
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blossoms and the Green Phantom written by Betsy Byars and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ALA Notable Book for Children: “The Blossoms are totally real and believable, yet quirky enough to be fun” (School Library Journal). Junior Blossom has created the most spectacular invention of all time: a homemade UFO. The Green Phantom took all of the garbage bags and Day-Glo paint Junior could find, but now it requires one more very special ingredient. Although Junior needs help, his family seems too busy to notice. Then when Pap and his dog, Mud, don't come home from town, the Blossoms are pulled apart even farther. Are Pap and Mud in serious trouble? Can a Blossom promise bring everyone back together again? The strength of family love triumphs in this adventurous third title of the best-selling Blossom Family series by Newbery Medal–winning author Betsy Byars.

Author : Griffin Ondaatje
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554984394
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mosquito Brothers written by Griffin Ondaatje and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by quirky line drawings by Spanish illustrator Erica Salcedo, this is a gently humorous and remarkably informative nature-adventure story about an unlikely pointy-nosed hero with big dreams and an even bigger heart. After he nearly drowns in a parking-lot puddle, Dinnn Needles is fearful of many things, including flying. When his four hundred siblings swarm off without him, he finds time to dream —about family stories, a lost brother, adventure in The Wild and, above all, how to be cool. At school in an abandoned air-conditioner, Dinnn learns about the deadly Pondhawk dragonfly and other dangers that lie beyond his home under a drive-in theater screen. But Dinnn never really takes to city life. Lonely and left out, he is filled with an unexplained longing. He sips spilled cola from abandoned pop cans, but it is not as tasty as flower nectar. He tries to make friends with the local street mosquitoes, but that just lands him in a sewer filled with spiders and water snakes. He hears about the red mini-van that brought his parents together and wonders about his extended family in the country. He even finds a great black jacket in a roadside ditch, but it doesn’t make him cool. And then one day, as fate would have it, the red mini-van reappears, giving Dinnn a chance to visit to his relatives in The Wild, where new perils await an inexperienced city mosquito — being struck by a raindrop, zapped by a porch light or snapped up by a hungry fish at dusk. But in the end Dinnn discovers that being cool is a matter of what you do, especially for one’s friends and family, including two new brothers. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events

Author : Alison Hughes
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459807626
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatrice More Moves In written by Alison Hughes and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatrice struggles to manage her hopelessly disorganized family in an effort to make a professional start in her new neighborhood.