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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times)
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Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
"Adriana Mora, a Latina photojournalist born and raised in Los Angeles, haunted by childhood memories of her parents death, abuse and displacement, journeys south to Chiapas, Mexico, in search of images to record on film. Initially, Mora finds a place in a small village where her path also crosses that of Chan Kin, the aged Lacandon shaman and interpreter of his people's mysticism."--Back cover.
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn, and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world.
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she's nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire. But dust always rises in a storm. Hassa moves through the...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Fleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate Yellow Fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town's eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa's life - including her relationship with local boy Guillermo - comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York, leaving the young girl disoriented...
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Language
English
Description
Angela Y. Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements. Fifty years after its original publication, the author revisits her life's story in print. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, An Autobiography is an account of her early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most...
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Plume
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
Español
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“Un libro importante…Emocionalmente sobrecogedor. Alvarez nos hace un regalo cargado de rara generosidad y coraje.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune
Ellas eran lasa cuatro hermanas Mirabal—símbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un país ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperación. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad....
Ellas eran lasa cuatro hermanas Mirabal—símbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un país ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperación. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad....
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For generations, General Rafael Trujillo has ruled the Dominican Republic with a mixture of terror and savagery, until Minerva Mirabal dares to oppose him. Inspired by her love for a rebel leader, Minerva and her sisters, known as Las Mariposas, endure unimaginable hardships in a battle for the very soul of a nation. But as their acts of bravery gain notoriety, Trujillos forces close in determined to put an end to Minervas heroics.
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"¡Jovita soñaba con usar pantalones! Odiaba las faldas amplias que su abuela la obligaba a usar. ¡Quería trepar al árbol de mezquite más alto de su rancho, montar a caballo y sentir que el viento le enroscaba el rostro en una sonrisa! Cuando su padre y sus hermanos se unieron a la Guerra Cristera para luchar por la libertad religiosa, Jovita también quiso ir. Como se lo prohibieron, desafió a su padre y a la sociedad, y encontró una forma...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Por qué a usted no la mataron?", le preguntan constantemente a Dede Mirabal. "Quedé viva para contarles la historia", responde ella. Y en las páginas de Vivas en su jardín hace exactamente eso: nos cuenta la historia de sus tres hermanas, Patria, Minerva y María Teresa, conocidas como "las Mariposas, cuya oposición a la dictadura de Rafael Leonidas Trujillo les costó la vida, sacudió los cimientos de la sociedad dominicana y desencadenó...
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