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(0)Isabel Allende
Author
Language
English
Description
The story weaves a vivid and engrossing tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect. As he journeys from the Hispanic barrio in Los Angeles to the killing fields of Vietnam to the frenetic life of a lawyer in San Francisco, Gregory Reeves loses himself in an illusory and wrongheaded quest. Only when he circles back to his roots does he find the love and acceptance he has been looking...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
Author
Series
Memorias del águila y del jaguar volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una divisiaon de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, to the Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue, and to Africa on safari into a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.
53) El plan infinito
Author
Publisher
HarperLibros
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
Español
Description
Es su primera novela situada en los Estados Unidos y con personajes nortemamericanos. Es la saga de un hombre que, durante los largos aos de su juventud y madurez, busca amor y aceptacin. Allende traza la pobreza y abandono de la niz de su protagonista, la persecuzion de las pandillas de un barrio de Los Angeles, el horror de sus experiencias en Vietnam, su vida frenica como abagodo en San Francisco--una serie de frustraciones que por fin se resuelven...
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
When men and cattle start disappearing from around their ranch near Los Angeles, fourteen-year-old Diego de la Vega, the future Zorro, and his best friend Bernardo decide they must take action.
Publisher
LIVE Home Video
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The core of this epic tale spanning three generations of the Trueba family is the stormy, yet passionate, relationship between the supernaturally gifted Clara and her controlling husband Esteban, who resists change both politically and personally.
