[PDF] Neela Goes To San Francisco eBook

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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
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ISBN : 9780997879001

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Neela Goes to San Francisco is a colorful counting book centered around little Neela's adventures discovering the surprises and delights of San Francisco. Accompanied by her beloved Bear-Bear, Neela delights in the big and small things that make this city so charming - watching the bustling city go by through an apartment window, seeing the giant redwood trees in Golden Gate Park and hearing the sea lions bark at each other at Pier 39. Each spread offers engagement for children through bold illustrations and encouragement to count out all of the pieces of Neela's adventure. An illustrated map of San Francisco is featured at the end of the book to highlight each discovery throughout the exploration of the city.

Author : Meenal Patel
Publisher : Beaver's Pond Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781643439556

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Priya lives in the United States and her family is from India. She feels the magic of the place her family comes from through her Babi Ba's colorful descriptions of India--from the warm smell of spices to the swish-swish sound of a rustling sari. Together, Priya and Babi Ba make their heritage live on through the traditions that they infuse into their everyday lives.

Author : Neela Vaswani
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936747170

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Short fiction that leaps across borders and boundaries: “Fierce and bold . . . beautiful” (Sena Jeter Naslund). In whirling, catch-me-if-you-can prose, Where the Long Grass Bends tells stories that subvert conventional narrative by employing Indian lore, Gaelic fable, and historical legend. Spare, fierce, and unpredictable, these tales from an American Book Award winner “play with the notion of culture and homeland from a variety of perpectives” (Kirkus Reviews). “Vaswani shows impressive range and a striking command of poetic imagery in this debut collection, which features 13 stories dealing mostly with the Indian and Asian immigrant experience. ‘Sita and Mrs. Durber’ describes a British art teacher’s struggles to deal with a formidably talented Malaysian kindergartener, whose brilliant drawings reveal uncomfortable truths. ‘Five Objects in Queens,’ in which an Indian family uses familiar references from their homeland to help them acclimate to life in New York, falls closer to the terrain carved out by writers like Bharati Mukherjee.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Juana Martinez-Neal
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536205303

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A 2019 Caldecott Honor Book What’s in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from — and who she may one day be. If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers; Esperanza, the great-grandmother who longed to travel; José, the grandfather who was an artist; and other namesakes, too. As she hears the story of her name, Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit after all — and realizes that she will one day have her own story to tell. In her author-illustrator debut, Juana Martinez-Neal opens a treasure box of discovery for children who may be curious about their own origin stories or names.

Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780606250603

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In 1939, twelve-year-old Neela meets a young freedom fighter at her sister's wedding and soon after must rely on his help when her father fails to return home from a march in Calcutta against British occupation.

Author : Susan Middleton Elya
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399545336

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The Princess and the Pea gets a fresh twist in this charming retelling with Spanish sprinkled throughout, winner of the Pura Belpré Medal for Illustration. El príncipe knows this girl is the one for him, but, as usual, his mother doesn’t agree. The queen has a secret test in mind to see if this girl is really a princesa, but the prince might just have a sneaky plan, too . . . Readers will be enchanted by this Latino twist on the classic story, and captivated by the vibrant art inspired by the culture of Peru.

Author : Brian Ascalon Roley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393340724

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A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers. Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The older brother, Tomas, fashions himself into a Mexican gangster and breeds pricey attack dogs, which he trains in German and sells to Hollywood celebrities. The narrator is younger brother Gabe, who tries to avoid the tar pit of Tomas's waywardness, yet moves ever closer to embracing it. Their mother, who moved to America to escape the caste system of Manila and is now divorced from their American father, struggles to keep her sons in line while working two dead-end jobs. When Gabe runs away, he brings shame and unforeseen consequences to the family. Full of the ache of being caught in a violent and alienating world, American Son is a debut novel that captures the underbelly of the modern immigrant experience. A Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Book, and a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist

Author : Tracy Guzeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451689780

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A debut novel already destined to be a book club favorite. “With its deft interweaving of psychological complexity and riveting narrative momentum, with its gorgeous prose and poetic justice, The Gravity of Birds is about sibling rivalry, tragedies, and resurrections. And it’s irresistibly exquisite” (San Francisco Chronicle). Forty-four years after the brilliant young painter, Thomas Bayber, first meets Alice and Natalie Kessler, Bayber unveils a never-before-seen work, Kessler Sisters—a provocative painting depicting the young Thomas, Alice, and Natalie. Bayber asks Dennis Finch, an art history professor, and Stephen Jameson, an eccentric young art authenticator, to sell the painting. But their task becomes more complicated when the artist requires that they first locate Alice and Natalie, who seem to have disappeared. Told in alternating chapters that weave revelations about the sisters’ past with clues Finch and Jameson discover in the present, this story sets three characters on a collision course with their histories, showing how families tear themselves apart and then try to bind themselves together again, not always creating the same fabric. The Gravity of Birds “combines the drama of warring sisters, the mystery of a missing painting, and the sorrow of lost love into a haunting elegy that will…leave you breathless” (Tiffany Baker, author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County).

Author : Kate Sullivan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462878938

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The Visit is a vividly told tale of Neela, a beautiful widow during the 1890s. In her mountain cabin, she earns a living by using her talents to make and sell her quilts to the nearby towns people. Six years after the death of her beloved husband, she is visited by a mysterious old man that brings her a message from her late husband, Lucas. A wonderfully rich cast of characters make this lively story an adventure, a surprise and a laugh at every turn of a page. Follow Neelas journey as she makes the beautiful quilts on a path to a new life. Just as the snowy winter melts into the glorious days of summer, this is at the on-set of the industrial revolution. Its a gentle time but awakening to all the possibilities of the modern age.

Author : Kristen-Paige Madonia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1442429224

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A teen embarks on the road trip of a lifetime in this authentic, beautifully written debut novel that Judy Blume says is “sure to appeal to both teens and adults.” Lemon grew up with Stella, a single mom who wasn’t exactly maternal. Stella always had a drink in her hand and a new boyfriend every few months, and when things got out of hand, she would whisk Lemon off to a new town for a fresh beginning. Now, just as they are moving yet again, Lemon discovers that she is pregnant from a reckless encounter—with a guy Stella had been flirting with. On the verge of revisiting her mother’s mistakes, Lemon struggles to cope with the idea of herself as a young unmarried mother, as well as the fact that she’s never met her own father. Determined to have at least one big adventure before she has the baby, Lemon sets off on a cross-country road trip, intending not only to meet her father, but to figure out who she wants to be. Lyrical and moving prose, from an original voice whose writing Judy Blume calls “luminous,” deftly depicts the nuanced conflicts of early motherhood and the search for identity.