The Story Of Amalia

Author : Alma Flor Ada
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442424044
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Amalia written by Alma Flor Ada and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amalia deals with loss while learning about love and her cultural heritage in this tender tale from acclaimed authors Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta. Amalia’s best friend Martha is moving away, and Amalia is feeling sad and angry. And yet, even when life seems unfair, the loving, wise words of Amalia’s abuelita have a way of making everything a little bit brighter. Amalia finds great comfort in times shared with her grandmother: cooking, listening to stories and music, learning, and looking through her treasured box of family cards. But when another loss racks Amalia’s life, nothing makes sense anymore. In her sorrow, will Amalia realize just how special she is, even when the ones she loves are no longer near? From leading voices in Hispanic literature, this thoughtful and touching depiction of one girl’s transition through loss and love is available in both English and Spanish.

Author : Amalia Garcia Kastberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735527215
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Amalia written by Amalia Garcia Kastberg and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Amalia is a journey through the life and challenges of a young immigrant girl navigating a bilingual and bi-cultural upbringing in the United States of America. Her name is different and hard to pronounce The food she eats is different. Her parents don't speak English. She loves America, her American friends and way of life. But she also loves and appreciates her Spanish roots. She realizes that she can be both American and Spanish. That's what makes her life so special.

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847293
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez written by John Rechy and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Latina woman living in poverty and hoping for miracles “comes to stunning and heartbreaking life” in this novel from an award-winning author (Newsday). On a hot, still day in May, Amalia Gómez sees—or thinks she sees—a large silver cross in the sky. Does this vision foretell a miracle? The pragmatic, twice-divorced Amalia is doubtful . . . Amalia’s neighborhood—a decaying area near a shabby part of Hollywood Boulevard—is under attack from gang wars and the police. Her live-in boyfriend is behaving suspiciously, her “fast” teenage daughter Gloria has become too much to handle, and her teenage son is hinting he’s in serious trouble. Most of all, Amalia is haunted by thoughts of her past and her first-born, dead in jail under mysterious circumstances. As the epiphanies and small omens of Amalia’s day build to a climax as wondrous as it is shattering, PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award–winning author John Rechy takes us into the complicated life of a Chicano family living in Los Angeles—in all its spirited, gritty reality, giving us “a novel with more truth in it than a carload of best-sellers” (The Washington Post). “A fierce book . . . [told in] tough, uninhibited prose.” —Hartford Courant “A vivid and touching novel . . . Rough, heartbreaking . . . Rechy is masterful.” —San Antonio Express-News “A triumph, a sad, beautiful and loving book rooted in cultural experience as well as deep intuition.” —Newsday “[An] ardently feminist piece of writing. By portraying her abusive past, the poverty and the narrow choices facing Amalia G[ó]mez, Rechy illuminates the plight of certain minority women who remain locked in the dark ages of female emancipation, shut off from any help . . . Amalia G[ó]mez may be the main character, but poverty and ignorance, injustice and fear, are the real subjects of this engaging novel.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Duncan Tonatiuh
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 168335110X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Danza! written by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of Amalia Hernández, dancer and founder of El Ballet Folklórico de México. Published in time for the 100th anniversary of Hernández’s birth, Danza! is the first picture book about the famous dancer and choreographer. Danza! is a celebration of Hernández’s life and of the rich history of dance in Mexico. As a child, Amalia always thought she would grow up to be a teacher, until she saw a performance of dancers in her town square. She was fascinated by the way the dancers twirled and swayed, and she knew that someday she would be a dancer, too. She began to study many different types of dance, including ballet and modern, under some of the best teachers in the world. Hernández traveled throughout Mexico studying and learning regional dances. Soon she founded her own dance company, El Ballet Folklórico de México, where she integrated her knowledge of ballet and modern dance with folkloric dances. The group began to perform all over the country and soon all over the world, becoming an international sensation that still tours today. Duncan Tonatiuh’s picture books have been honored with many awards and accolades, including the Pura Belpré Award, the Robert F. Sibert Award, and the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award. With Tonatiuh’s distinctive Mixtec-inspired artwork and colorful drawings that seem to leap off the page, Danza! will enthrall and inspire young readers with the fascinating story of this important dancer and choreographer.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547344902
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amalia's Tale written by David I. Kertzer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from the mountains near Bologna, is forced by poverty to take in a child from the city’s foundling home to wet-nurse. When Amalia contracts syphilis from the sickly and malformed baby given to her, the city fathers callously dismiss her pleas for treatment and restitution. Bewildered and frightened, she seeks out Augusto Barbieri, an ambitious attorney looking to make a name for himself. He takes up Amalia’s cause, fighting the case for years through the Italian courts before winning an unprecedented and stunning victory for his by now broken client. The unforgettable story of a landmark struggle for basic human rights, Amalia’s Tale is the moving drama of a rural woman whose life was ruined and the man from the city who would not stop -- or so it seemed -- until he had seen justice done.

Author : Amalia Balch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737156703
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Child of Greece written by Amalia Balch and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann M. Martin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590298384
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Diaries #04 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth-grader Amalia is excited when she and James, an eleventh-grader, start to get serious, but when he gets jealous whenever she talks to other guys and tells her he'll die without her, she gets scared.

Author : Jerry Tello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780545377577
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amalia and the Grasshopper written by Jerry Tello and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amalia learns to play basketball with the help of her grandfather and a grasshopper.

Author : Amalia Ulman
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791384184
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excellences & Perfections written by Amalia Ulman and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the fiercely intelligent internet-based performance of artist Amalia Ulman, which she eventually revealed to be a critical artwork about issues of online identity. Amalia Ulman's performance "Excellences & Perfections", which unfolded on Instagram in 2014, follows an aspiring it-girl who undergoes a series of cosmetic surgeries and lifestyle changes to help jumpstart her career. For six months Ulman mesmerized her followers with nearly daily posts that documented a young woman trying on different personas in order to make her way in the world. Finally, the real Amalia Ulman revealed the fiction that she had created--a performance piece about identity, gender, class, sexuality, and lifestyle porn. The illustrations are presented in chronological order to give readers the experience of viewing the work as an uninterrupted stream, in the way her followers first saw them on social media. A forerunner of a new brand of performance art, Ulman has made a significant statement about the intersection of life and art--one that couldn't be more timely or compelling.

Author : Peggy Parish
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0694012963
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amelia Bedelia written by Peggy Parish and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-03-06 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia Bedelia, the housekeeper with a literal mind, merrily upsets the household when she "dresses" the chicken and "trims" the steak with ribbons and lace.