Jake y la Migraci'on de la Monarca

In Spanish. A young girl describes what a typical day is like in her parents' Chinese store in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Recipient of a Pura Belpr� Illustrator Award Honor in 2000.

For use in schools and libraries only. A collection of fifteen Latin American folktales which include some variations on traditional stories as well as Aztec and Mayan creation myths and ghost stories.

"¿Te gustaría aprender a cultivar una hortaliza? Visita el huerto de Pico el erizo y juega con los mecanismos de solapas y lengüetas para aprender, paso a paso, la transformación de una semilla en una sabrosa zanahoria." -- from publisher

A young woman travels to a new world, and discovers who she really is. In October 1829, Georgiana Molloy embarked on a gruelling five-month sea journey from her home in England, hopeful of a prosperous future in the new settlement in Western Australia. But the land she finds is harsh and unyielding, food is often short, and the struggle of colonial life spells dreadful loneliness. Yet despite the hardships, she begins to see the unique beauty of her adopted country, and becomes fascinated with its amazing plant life, so different from anything she has known in England. Based on the real life...