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In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramirez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field--an...
Baker & Taylor"In brief poems, the animals who live in and around Iguazú Falls in South America introduce themselves and the rain forest world they inhabit. K. PW. "Perseus PublishingIn the lush rainforest of the Iguazú National Park, toucans and...
A rhyming retelling of an Indian folktale from Brazil about tiny, playful monkeys and why they have no place to call home
While the Wright Brothers were "gliding" over Kitty Hawk, the charming Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont was making his own mark on the history of flight, becoming the first person to fly a self-propelled airplane. Full color
A boy describes the building, people, weather, games, and activities he can observe from his window in a favela, a neighborhood in Rio de Janiero. Includes notes about favelas and the author's experiences growing up in one.