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For as long as Estrella Alvarez can remember, her mother has beenplanning to throw her an elaborate quinceañera for her fifteenthbirthday -- complete with a mariachi band, cheesy decorations, and ahideous dress. Just thinking about her quince makes Estrella cringe. Buther mother insists that it's tradition.

Estrella has other things on her mind, anyway -- like dating Speedy. Doesit matter that her new friends -- and her parents -- would never approve of aguy from el barrio? Estrella's almost fifteen and wants to start makingher own decisions. But is she ready to find out who she is -- and who shereally wants to be?.
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Organized by El Museo del Barrio in New York to coincide with a major exhibition, this is the first comprehensive English-language publication on the fascinating legacy of Taíno art and culture Showcasing over one hundred rare and beautiful ceremonial and domestic artworks and individual masterpieces of this ancient culture -- produced in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas between A.D. 1200 and 1500 -- Taíno includes examples of finely detailed and polished sculptures carved in wood, precious ornaments of shell and bone, and ceramics decorated with animals, birds, and intricate geometric motifs. The contributors include ten of the foremost scholars of pre-Columbian culture and art, and an appendix features writings from Spanish explorers who had contact with the Taíno.

Of Arawak descent, the Taíno -- whose ancestors migrated to the Caribbean from the Amazon Basin in South America during the sixth century -- were the first people encountered by Christopher Columbus. Although they ceased to exist as an autonomous society within sixty years of the arrival of Spanish colonizers, the Taíno -- skilled agriculturists and navigators and accomplished weavers, potters, and carvers -- developed a complex political, religious, and social system, and made a substantial contribution to the biological, cultural, and linguistic makeup of large areas of the Caribbean. To this date, Caribbean communities in the Antilles and in New York and other large American cities exhibit the survival of Taíno practices in their worldviews, religious beliefs, language, music, and food..
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"Do you guys have Internet?"..."How about TiVo?"..."You do get American TV?" The house was dark. Wait a minute -- do they even have electricity?

Even though Sofi Mendoza was born in Mexico, she's spent most of her life in California -- the closest she gets to a south-of-the-border experience is eating at Taco Bell. But when Sofi and her friends sneak off for a weekend in Tijuana, she gets in real trouble. To Sofi's shock, the border patrol says that her green card is counterfeit. Until her parents can sort out the paperwork and legal issues, Sofi is stuck in Mexico.

In the meantime, Sofi's parents arrange for her to stay with long-lost relatives in rural Baja. It's bad enough that Sofi has to miss senior prom and even graduation, but her aunt, uncle, and cousins live on a ranch with no indoor plumbing! As the weeks pass, though, she finds herself adapting to her surroundings. Sofi starts helping out on the ranch, getting along with her bratty cousins, and she even meets a guy with more potential than anyone from school. Through the unexpected crash course in her heritage, Sofi comes to appreciate that she has a home on both sides of the border..
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“Estas historias, algunas cómicas, todas inspiradoras, me mantienen leyendo toda la noche. Son definitivamente un calmante curativo para los resfriados del alma”.
Taran Smith, actor de, Home Improvement

“Sopa de pollo para el Alma de los Niños no es un libro lleno de historias de adultos de ‘Cuando Yo era un Niño...’ Es de niños para niños — ¡debe de leerse!”
Rick Dees, anfitrión de, Weekly Top 40

¡El Poder de los Niños en Acción!

Los niños querían su propio libro de Sopa de pollo, así que ¡aquí está! Sopa de Pollo para el Alma de los Niños es para niños entre las edades de nueve a trece años y “¡es todo lo que se esperaba!”

Algunas veces te sientes como si la vida fuera una explosión total, desde anotar el gol ganador hasta pasar tiempo con tus amigos. Sin embargo otras veces la vida es demasiado complicada: parece que cada vez que te volteas ves violencia, más padres se divorcian, tu mejor amigo se muda lejos de ti, o te sientes como que no congenias con nadie.

Ahora hay un lugar donde encontrarás respuestas y estímulo y que te ayudará a darte cuenta que tus sueños de veras se pueden hacer realidad.
Contiene historias cómicas sobre la amistad y la familia, e historias serias sobre niños heroicos y decisiones difíciles. Este libro te hará reir, llorar, pensar y sentirte bien contigo mismo.

Jack Canfield y Victor Hansen, coautores del éxito #1 del New York Times, la serie de Sopa de Pollo para el Alma, se unen a Patty Hansen e Irene Dunlap para crear el primer libro de Sopa de pollo solamente para niños. Patty Hansen es la esposa de Mark y es gerente financiera de MVH & Associates, coautora de Sopa de Pollo Condensada para el Alma y es madre de dos niños. Irene Dunlap es escritora, vocalista de Jazz y madre de dos, que está involucrada en aumentar la calidad de la educación pública en su comunidad.

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"An important contribution to the study of Central American testimonial fiction... in relation to Latin American, 'Third World, ' and even broader currents, including such specific concerns as postmodernity, postcolonialism, and feminism". -- Marc Zimmerman, University of Illinois at Chicago "Represents the first systematic effort to analyze individual writers from Central America and place them within the testimonial vein.... A cogent account of literary developments in this understudied area". -- Elzbieta Sklodowska, Washington University, St. Louis In Novels of Testimony and Resistance, Linda Craft defines and describes the testimonial novel, traces its recent history in E1 Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, and examines the historical and political context that has given rise to this hybrid literary form. Focusing on some of the most compelling recent examples of this literature of resistance, she considers the ways in which mediated "eyewitness testimonies" can be contaminated by even a sympathetic collaborator and explores the tensions between writing history and writing an artistic elaboration of an event. Craft's is the first systematic attempt to analyze specific Central American novelists in the testimonial genre. She examines most closely the work of Claribel Alegria, Manlio Argueta, Arturo Arias, and Gioconda Belli, novelists from countries that have experienced great turmoil in recent decades and whose novels are positioned at the margins, where they offer a voice for the voiceless -- peasants, political prisoners, guerrilla fighters, women and children, indigenous peoples, and others who have been discredited, disenfranchised, or dispossessed. With politicalturmoil subsiding in Central America, Craft's study is particularly timely, given its attempt to take stock of recent developments in this literature and to argue for its inclusion in an enlarged, multicultural literary canon..
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