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El narrador es entrañable, informativo y está lleno de sentimientos.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublicaremos simultáneamente una edición en inglés (Caravan to the North: Misael’s Long Walk) y una edición en español (Caravana al Norte: La larga caminata de Misael).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEl libro incluirá una nota del autor y un mapa ilustrando la travesía de Misael desde El Salvador hasta la frontera de los Estados Unidos.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConexiones curriculares: Estudios Sociales \/ Inmigración, refugiados, derechos humanos; artes del lenguaje \/ poesía, novela en verso.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“The award-winning Salvadoran writer Argueta offers a brief but powerful novel in verse. … [His] spare text is given emotional potency through Misael’s observations of the members of the caravan …” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Deceptively simple black-and-white line drawings accompany this wrenching account of the humanitarian crisis taking place in Central America and at the U.S. border. … This moving work should help children understand the current national discussion.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"El relato de un niño viajando de El Salvador hacia los EE.UU. ilumina la realidad de los inmigrantes centroamericanos cuya única opción es abandonar su hogar.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2019-10-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"El relato de un niño viajando de El Salvador hacia los EE.UU. ilumina la realidad de los inmigrantes centroamericanos cuya única opción es abandonar su hogar.","Subtitle":"La larga caminata de Misael","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 9
and up
/ grades 4
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Caravana al Norte
El relato de un niño viajando de El Salvador hacia los EE.UU. ilumina la realidad de los inmigrantes centroamericanos cuya única opción es abandonar su hogar.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
A Boy Is Not a Ghost
In this sequel to the award-winning A Boy Is Not a Bird, a boy is exiled to Siberia during World War II. Based on a true story.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
Odd Man Out
When Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, he discovers a very puzzling binder his late father kept.
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The Baby Project
A mother's new pregnancy leaves a family touched and forever changed.
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ages 13
and up
/ grades 8
and up
Broken Memory
Moments of grace and tenderness undercut the terror and pain of this powerful story of the genocidal war in Rwanda.
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Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades Persia in 1918, and her family must flee into the mountains. Will she ever see home again?
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ages 14
and up
/ grades 9
and up
The News
This Groundwork Guide takes a critical look at the state of the news worldwide. Television, radio, newspaper and internet — who owns these sources?
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Why Are You Doing That?
A curious little boy learns all about food and where it comes from in this companion to Amado and Monroy’s first picture book, What Are You Doing?
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The Elevator Ghost
An eccentric babysitter has a knack for telling stories that are eerily well suited to her young charges.
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ages 14
and up
/ grades 9
and up
Watching Traffic
A stunning debut novel about that uncertain summer after high-school graduation.
