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Learn Over 70 World Languages with Mango
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Although her family and friends know her as ?rsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, the world refers to her simply as Celia Cruz. Starting her career in 1950, Celia grew increasingly popular as the new lead singer of the Cuban band Sonora Matancera. Her exceptional vocal range and flashy costumes made fans fall in love with her. Celia's talent took her all around the world, including the United States. After Fidel Castro came to power in...
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English
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Anita watches the dragons high above her as she hops from one cement roof to another in her village in the Dominican Republic. But being the valiant princesa she is, she never lets them scare her. Will she be brave enough to enter the belly of the beast and take flight to new adventures?
9) Dale
Author
Publisher
Mr. 305 Records
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Pitbull is back and ready to get the party started with his highly anticipated second Spanish language album. It promises to start the summer off right and keep the good times going throughout the year.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
During his life, and perhaps even more since his death, Che has elicited controversy and wildly divergent opinions as to who he was and what he represented. In Che: A Graphic Biography, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón -- the graphic duo who made the 9/11 Commission Report understandable in their bestselling The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation and who most recently explained the ongoing war on terror in After 9/11 -- have come together again to give...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the rise of coffee in the Americas, and how it connected and divided the modern world. Sedgewick reveals how the growth of coffee production, trade, and consumption went hand in hand with the rise of the scientific idea of energy as a universal force, which transformed thinking about how the human body works as well as ideas about the relationship of one person's work to another's. In the process, both El Salvador and the United...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Nearly 200 years ago, Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands and found a variety of plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on the planet. Learn how these fantastic islands were formed by volcanoes and how their unique wildlife came to live on them
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. As she begins to create a world of words for herself, Oriol learns...
14) Across the bay
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Carlitos lives in a happy home with his mother, his abuela, and Coco the cat. Life in his hometown is cozy as can be, but the call of the capital city pulls Carlitos across the bay in search of his father. Jolly pirag?eros, mischievous cats, and costumed musicians color this tale of love, family, and the true meaning of home.
15) Water day
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
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