Blanca Camacho
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
290L
Language
English
Description
A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types of animals. She grazes on grass, and she likes to say, 'Moo!' I don't think that is what a llama would do." In this favorite, whimsical rhyming riddles help Lloyd the baby llama guess what kind of animal everyone's mama really is. But it's his friend Lyn the llama that finally leads Lloyd to the answer he most longs to hear. Is your...
2) Owen
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Everest
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." -The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters-Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía-and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father's role in an attempt...