Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Migrant by Maxine Trottier, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault

From chapters.ca:
Each spring Anna leaves her home in Mexico and travels north with her family where they will work on farms. Sometimes she feels like a bird, flying north in the spring and south in the fall. Sometimes she feels like a jack rabbit living in an abandoned burrow, as her family moves into an empty house near the fields. But most of all she wonders what it would be like to stay in one place.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Glass Slipper Gold Sandal by Paul Fleischman, illustrated by Julie Paschkis

From chapters.ca:
Once upon a time, in Mexico...in Ireland...in Zimbabwe...there lived a girl who worked all day in the rice fields...then spent the night by the hearth, sleeping among the cinders. Her name is Ashpet, Sootface, Cendrillon...Cinderella. Her story has been passed down the centuries and across continents. Now Paul Fleischman and Julie Paschkis craft its many versions into one hymn to the rich variety and the enduring constants of our cultures.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

The Giant Rat of Sumatra or Pirates Galore by Sid Fleischman

From the back of the book:
A swashbuckling pirate ship cuts through the early morning fog. Crouching like a tiger about to spring, her figurehead is a huge and ferocious rat with crooked teeth and gouged-out eyes. When the daring Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego, twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to Boston. Instead he encounters: snarling mutineers, barefoot bandits, hairbreadth, escapes, duels, cunning barkeeps, simmering revenge, secret identities, scrappy orphans, betrayals, lost loves, old enemies, new villains, heroic last stands, and razzle-dazzle treasure so well hidden that only someone as quick and clever as Shipwreck could keep up with it.
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