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Author
Publisher
Amanuense
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
--¿Qué haces? --quiso saber Olga. --Un bordado --respondió la abuela. --¿Qué es un bordado? --preguntó Olga. --Un bordado es una sonrisa que dibujas con aguja e hilo en un pedazo de tela que se siente muy aurrido porque es de un solo color.
"What are you doing?" Olga asked. "An embroidery,'' the grandmother replied. "What is an embroidery?" asked Olga. "An embroidery is a smile that you draw with a needle and thread on a piece of cloth that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of Donna Barba Higuera's Lupe Wong Won't Dance and Aida Salazar's The Moon Within, comes Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice -- a contemporary middle grade novel full of spunk and activist heart. Manuela Mani Semilla wants two things: to get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala, a place that has always been more of a mystery than an answer. Mani can't imagine leaving behind Las Nerdas, her band of misfit friends,...
3) Borderless
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
Author
Series
Harley James adventures volume 1
Publisher
Vision Forty Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Amateur cryptologist Harley James has just landed in the sticky jungle of Tikal, Guatemala--home to the famous Mayan ruins. She's made a few friends, a few mistakes...and a ground-breaking discovery. The legendary statue of the long-lost Mayan King. Just as she is about to impress her father with her discovery, the statue is stolen. Right from her own room! And what's worse? The legend says if the statues of the three kings are reunited, they'll...
Author
Language
English
Description
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Three teenage immigrants risk the trip from Guatemala through Mexico to the United States southern border in search of a better life. surround them.
"La travesía llena de peligros, resiliencia, dolor y esperanza de tres adolescentes guatemaltecos que cruzan la frontera entre México y Estado Unidos. En este impresionante retrato de tres vidas injustamente destrozadas, basado en hechos reales, Jenny Torres Sanchez resalta el sacrificio de los migrantes...
7) Red glass
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009], 2009
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ixchel wants to follow in the long tradition of weaving on backstrap looms, just as her mother, grandmother, and most Mayan women have done for more than two thousand years but there is not enough extra thread for Ixchel to practice with. As she walks around her village, Ixchel finds it littered with colorful plastic bags. Suddenly, Ixchel has an idea! She collects and washes the plastic bags. Then she cuts each bag into thin strips. Sitting at her...
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