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(0)Ana Maria Machado
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English
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A fast-moving middle-grade novel set in the seventeenth century about two Portuguese orphans who are sent to Brazil where they encounter slaves from Africa. Together with their new friend, an aboriginal boy, they work towards reuniting the slaves with their families and helping them escape to freedom. The novel opens when Bento is wrongly thrown into Lisbon's prison by the king's guards, leaving his younger sibling, Manu, to fend for himself. Fortunately,...
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English
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One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet and, inside, a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother Beatrice, her Bisa Bea, and that she and her great-grandmother look very much alike. Bel convinces her mother to let her borrow the treasured photo promising to look after it carefully. To her dismay, by the time she returns home from school, the picture...
4) Wolf wanted
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English
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Manny Wolf rewrites a help wanted ad, clarifying that a real wolf is needed so that a documentary can be made to show people what real wolves are like and how different they are from their big, bad fictional counterparts who've applied for the job.
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Español
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Isabel and Enrique are spending the day at Grandma's. They play with clay and markers, and then they go out to the garden to plant seeds and water the plants. They are now all covered with mud! Grandma decides to hose them. Now the three of them and the dog are soaking wet! This very entertaining story written in verse will motivate kids to talk about their favorite pastimes and to reflect upon their relationship with their grandparents. (Authentic...