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Publisher
B
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Una vida de lucha por el trono. Una batalla de reyes en la que se alzará una reina. 1100 d. C. La turbulenta línea de sucesión de los reinos de León, Castilla y Galicia obliga a doña Urraca de Zamora, hermana y mano derecha del rey Alfonso VI, a asegurar un futuro para su sobrina, la infanta Urraca, a la que el monarca ha apartado del trono en favor de su hijo menor, Sancho Alfónsez. Sin embargo, la consejera real no está dispuesta a permitirlo...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Petra Luna is in America, having escaped the Mexican Revolution and the terror of the Federales. Now that they are safe, Petra and her family can begin again, in this country that promises so much. Still, twelve-year-old Petra knows that her abuelita, little sister, and baby brother depend on her to survive. She leads her family from a smallpox-stricken refugee camp on the Texas border to the buzzing city of San Antonio, where they work hard to build...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Teresa, la abuela, creció aislada en un orfanato en medio de la Sierra Gorda queretana, y desde pequeña ha visto con verguenza su facilidad para servir como médium a las almas en pena. A través deellas recibe la ubicación de un tesoro escondido y una popularidad que atrae a los políticos del momento para que les hable de su suerte. De sus hijos, uno se ordena como sacerdote, mientras otro se une a su primo para armar la Revolución y terminar...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The people of northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires. But nothing could have prepared them for the devastating 2018 fire season, the deadliest in 100 years and the most destructive in history. In the 20th 'I Survived' book, readers join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his affluent New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his mother was born and raised. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself"--OCLC.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Cuando a los seis años de edad, Gabriella escucha que los adultos hablan de algo llamado "una revolución" en su Cuba natal, no entiende lo que eso significa. Poco después, todo cambia cuando de repente sus padres se van del país, y ella se queda con sus abuelos. Pronto llega el día en el que se va a vivir con sus padres a un lugar llamado el Bronx. Su vida ahí es diferente --el clima es frío, los edificios son altísimos, y todos hablan inglés--....
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, [this book] is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet...
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