Isabel Allende
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
Author
Publisher
Rayo, HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Basada en una investigacion meticulosa, esta novela narra la vida de Ines Suarez. Espanola de una familia pobre, Ines trabaja como costurera. Es el siglo dieciseis, y la conquista de America esta apenas comenzando. Cuando un dia el esposo de Ines des
Based on meticulous research, this novel tells the life story of In Suez. It is the sixteenth century, and the conquest of America has just begun. In is a poor seamstress in Spain....
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Dr. Victor Dalmau and pianist Roser Bruguera flee Spain after the Civil War to travel aboard the Winnipeg and settle in Chile, but are again uprooted after the 1973 coup againt Victor's chess partner Salvador Allende.
Author
Publisher
Rayo/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Nacido en 1795 en la California hispana, Diego de la Vega esta atrapado entre dos mundos. Su padre es militar convertido en prospero hacendado, su madre es guerrera indigena y su abuela materna es la sabia chaman de su tribu.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she is separated from her mother.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Isabel Allende parte de la celebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendi por fin que habia en mi un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografia humana de unos personajes propios de la America de hoy que se hallan "en el mas profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...