The Américas Award

The Américas Award
Author: Laretta Henderson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2015-12-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1498501613

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First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere. The Award is unique in that selects Latino/a youth literature for classroom use and in that it focuses on the entire Western Hemisphere. Scholars from the fields of literature, education, lbrary science, and theater engage with Latino/a Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) in this ecollection of essays about the Américas Award, the Award-winning and honored books, and the contexts in which the books are used. This collection offers essays on the history of the award, close readings of Award-winning and honored books situated in the classroom, and discussions of how best to use the books in the classroom, library and theater.

Immigration and Children’s Literature

Immigration and Children’s Literature
Author: Wilma Robles-Melendez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2023-06-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350255920

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This book explores the issues faced by immigrant children through the lens of children's literature. The authors employ the UN convention of the Rights of the Child, the lens of equity, and Freire's principles of critical consciousness as a framework for analysing children's literature and immigration. They focus on circumstances and experiences of immigration from the perspective of young children who are leaving their homelands and growing up as immigrants. The book focuses primarily on children from birth to 8 years old but with crossover and implications for older children. The chapters reveal the social, economic, and political issues faced by child immigrants, refugees and asylees throughout the global context, viewed through and alongside children's literature. The book provides suggestions for the implementation of children's literature in the curriculum and provides tools for educators and researchers working with immigrant and refugee children, showing how they can better understand their students and families. A variety of children's literature is covered, including analysis of works by Jairo Buitrago, Yanksook Choi, Sandra leGuen, Rosemary McCartney, Bao Phi and Jeanette Winter.

Bridges to Understanding

Bridges to Understanding
Author: Linda Pavonetti
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2011-10-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810881063

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This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 and 2009. This annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, with descriptions of nearly 700 books representing more than 70 countries, is a valuableresource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. Like its predecessors, it will be an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.

Angelina's Choice

Angelina's Choice
Author: Nick Bryan
Publisher: Nick Bryan
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre:
ISBN:

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“Finding my real parents isn’t as simple as I hoped, but after all the trouble Hobson’s past gives us, surely I’m owed my chance?” After solving other people’s cases all summer, Angelina Choi is itching to look into her most personal mystery - who were her birth-parents? Why did they abandon their infant daughter in a cardboard box next to a pub? But with her detective boss John Hobson trapped in the dark underbelly of London’s trendy online taxi services, Angelina ploughs on with her investigation alone. Will her single-minded obsession cause irreparable harm? Can discovering the truth about her family make her happy? Angelina’s Choice, the fifth volume in the Hobson & Choi series, brings the dark comedy-drama detective saga to a crossroads, with every character forced to question their decisions past and present. But as the end looms nearer, their options are vanishing.

Angelina's Island

Angelina's Island
Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007-04-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780374303495

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Every day, Angelina dreams of her home in Jamaica and imagines she is there, until her mother finds a wonderful way to convince her that New York is now their home.

Let Her Cry

Let Her Cry
Author:
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 222
Release:
Genre: Popular music
ISBN: 0595315771

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Angelina's Journey

Angelina's Journey
Author: Gwen Beaudean Thoma EdD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 157
Release: 1901
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664119124

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Angelina’s Journey is a sequel to Gwen Thoma’s fifth book, The King of Hearts. Angelina Harper is a nineteen-year-old college freshmen at Southeast Missouri State College in 1967. She had just declared her major in the nursing program at the college when she became a key witness in the trial of John Noble, better known as the King of Hearts. Angelina had been stalked by John Noble for three years while she was in high school. She and the police had discovered that her stalker had been murdering Angelina’s boyfriends in high school and had left king of hearts playing cards with each body of these seven young men. Angelina knew she was being stalked but did not discover that he was a serial killer until she and the police realized the King of Hearts was following her and leaving king of hearts playing cards wherever she went. Angelina thought that she was done with her stalker once he was caught and sentenced to life in prison. Nothing was further from the truth. Somehow, he knew what was going on in her life, and he sent her letters and called her with threatening warnings. Angelina’s saga continues until the dramatic and suspenseful end to her journey. This book is filled with mystery, suspense, and romance as Angelina lives the rest of her life.

Angelina

Angelina
Author: Gerard Hindmarsh
Publisher: Craig Potton Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: D'Urville Island (New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781877333217

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Together they shared their own struggles, their different cultures and lack of English language; a process that awakened Angelina to her own inner strengths. Angelina and Vincenzo finally left D'Urville Island in 1946, and both died within a few months of each other in Wellington in 1954.

Matching Books and Readers

Matching Books and Readers
Author: Nancy L. Hadaway
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-08-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1606238833

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Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.

Angelina at the Palace

Angelina at the Palace
Author: Katharine Holabird
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1534497218

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Originally published: London: Puffin, 2005.