The Wayland Atlas of Rain Forests (The Wayland Atlas Of)
by Anna Lewington
This book puts the Amazon rain forest, its people, plants and animals into perspective allowing children to make comparisons between this and the rainforests in the north-west coast of America to the tip of Australia and South-East Asia. Each continent is introduced with a large introductory map and subsequent feature pages highlight areas children will find particularly interesting.
Puerto Rico (Caribbean Today) (Discovering The Caribbean)
by Romel Hernandez
Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.
Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled. After eleven years, he decided he would go find...
“Un relato conmovedor que le da un rostro humano a los indocumentados, tan bello como marcado de cicatrices. Imprescindible”.—Kirkus Reviews, reseña destacada. Basada en el libro homónimo para adultos, La Travesía de Enrique de Sonia Nazario está disponible en su versión adaptada para lectores jóvenes traducida al español por Ana Ras. Esta es la verdadera historia de Enrique, un adolescente hondureño que emprende un viaje arduo y peligroso en busca de su madre, quien se vio forzada a dejarlo d...
Bolivia (Discovering South America) (South America Today)
by LeeAnne Gelletly
Award-winning author and storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy takes readers through her personal immigration journey from her island roots in Havana, Cuba, to a small-town southern life in Decatur, Georgia. In this collection of twelve stories, Deedy introduces us to the wise and witty Agra family and the hilarious and often poignant collision of cultures they experience when they immigrate to the US. From adventures with a neighborhood friend to her mother standing before a judge, these storie...
Developing World: Brazil and Rio de Janeiro (Developing World)
by Louise Spilsbury
A high-end geography series that explores some of the fastest-developing countries and cities in the world and assesses how they are dealing with the challenges of the 21st century. Topics looked at include: population structure, the economy, environmental sustainability and the outlook for the future. Each title also features a closer look at an individual city within the country. The fastest developing country in South America, Brazil is going through an exciting period of rapid economic and...
Brazil (Countries Of The World)
Hurricane Dancers (Pura Belpre Honor Books - Author (Narrative))
by MS Margarita Engle
The Jews in the Caribbean (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
The Portuguese Jewish diaspora was born out of a double tragedy: the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and the forced conversion/expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497. The potent combination of expulsion, Inquisition, and crypto-Judaism left people neither wholly Jewish nor wholly Christian in their identity. Subsequently many left the Iberian peninsula; some found refuge in the Caribbean, but succeeded in maintaining strong connections with Portuguese Jews in western Europe, the Ot...
Growing Up in Brazil (Growing Up Around the World)
by John Allen
Young people under age twenty-four make up more than 40 percent of Brazil s population, increasing the need for better schools and more jobs. Brazilian youth grow up in a country that values its rich cultural diversity even while it struggles with issues of corruption and poverty. Featured is an overview of the country, as well as insights into how Brazil s youth experience home and family, education and work, social life, and more.
Surveys the geography, history, industry, agriculture, people, culture, and future prospects of Argentina.