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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Más allá del invierno Más allá del invierno Isabel Allende In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a … OL17721361W
Journey of dreams Journey of dreams Marjorie White Pellegrino When their village is destroyed in the Guatemalan Civil War, Tomasa and her family, except her mother and brother, who have been taken by the authorities, begin the long trek north in search of somew… OL17731392W
My pig Amarillo My pig Amarillo Satomi Ichikawa Pablito, a Guatemalan boy whose pet pig Amarillo has disappeared, uses a kite to send him a message that he still loves him. OL18335464W
Tree Girl Tree Girl Ben Mikaelsen When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb a… OL1839866W
Iguana Beach Iguana Beach Kristine L. Franklin Though little Reina has promised not to swim in the waves during her first trip to the ocean, it becomes intolerable for her to keep that promise as her cousins frolic in the water--and then she find… OL1954673W
Rainbow weaver Rainbow weaver Linda Elovitz Marshall,Elisa Chavarri Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings. Includes glossary and author's note. OL19664343W
Colibri Colibri Ann Cameron Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the p… OL54926W