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"First published in 1974, when it was awarded the Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, this remains the only extensive survey of Hispanic building and art on the late Colorado frontier. Because most of the villages where the author found his subjects are now either abandoned or transformed by developers, the book is likely to stand as the only full visual record of what Spanish Americans along the...
4) Corduroy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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The classic original Corduroy story, issued in a larger board book format. A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.
5) Once minutos
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"Relata la historia de María, una joven proveniente de una villa brasileña, cuyos primeros roces inocentes con el amor la dejan con el corazón destrozado. Un encuentro casual en Rio la lleva a Ginebra, donde sueña con conseguir fama y fortuna. Sin embargo, termina trabajando de prostituta. En Ginebra, la opinión desesperanzada que María tiene del amor se pone a prueba al conocer a un apuesto joven pintor. En esta odisea de descubrimiento personal,...
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"In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners--Rosa's family among...
9) Coraline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Coraline has just moved into an old mansion shrouded in fog. While her parents work, the girl is entertained by exploring the place. In the living room, discover with suspicion a door that first leads to a brick wall and then to a fantastic world and attractive, curiously similar to his.
10) Eragon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 26
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In Alagas︠ia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
En el reino legendario de Alagas︠ia la guerra se est ̀gestando. Cuando Eragon, un joven de 15 aǫs que vive en una pequeą aldea, se encuentra con una piedra preciosa en medio del bosque a donde ha ido a cazar, poco se espera que...
11) Big machines
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Demonstrates how the crane, bulldozer, dump truck, and other construction machines all play a part in building a new park.
13) The Spanish West
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Discusses the land, history, and people of the Southwestern United States.
14) Esperanza renace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
18) The angel's game
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Cemetery of forgotten books volume 2
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In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martn, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the citys underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters...
19) Colorado
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2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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This book describes the geography, history, and state facts of Colorado.
20) Mujercitas
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[1994?]
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.