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1) The dreamer
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English
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4th Grade Rocks
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
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Butterfly Hill volume 2
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English
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After fourteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns to Valparaiso from Maine, she decides to uncover the truth about what happened in Butterfly Hill during the dictatorship and find her missing friend, Lucila.
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English
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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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[2021]
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English
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It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People." His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to...
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2019.
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Español
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During the Spanish Civil War, a young doctor and his pianist companion go into exile in Chile, where they're received as heroes, but find themselves uprooted again after the coup d'état that overthrew Salvador Allende.
Un viaje a través de la historia del siglo XX de la mano de unos personajes inolvidables que descubrirán que en una sola vida caben muchas vidas y que, a veces, lo difícil no es huir sino volver. En plena Guerra Civil española,...
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