Abuela's weave
Omar S. Castaņeda; Enrique O. Sanchez
1993 New York: Lee & Low Books.
A young Guatemalan girl and her grandmother grow closer as they
weave some special creations and then make a trip to the market in
hopes of selling them.
Call Number: PZ7.C26859 Ab 1993
Among the volcanoes
Omar S. Castaņeda
1991 New York: Lodestar Books.
When her mother becomes ill, Isabel, a Mayan girl living in
contemporary Guatemala, must care for her and continue her search
for her own identity in a world fraught with upheaval and change.
Call Number: PZ7.C26859 Am 1991
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Imagining Isabel
Omar S. Castaņeda
1994 New York: Lodestar Books.
Isabel, a newly married fifteen-year-old who lives in a
traditional Mayan village, is invited to join a government-run,
teacher-training program, and is thrown into the turbulent
political reality of contemporary Guatemala.
Journey of the sparrows
Fran Leeper Buss; Daisy Cubias
1991 New York: Lodestar Books.
Call Number: PZ7.B9655 Jo 1993
Maria and her brother and sister, Salvadoran refugees, are
smuggled into the United States in crates and try to eke out a
living in Chicago with the help of a sympathetic family. |
