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Chavi's music teacher believes that only boys should play drums in Miami'sestival de la Calle Ocho, but Chavi knows she is a good musician and looksor a way to prove it.
When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces, " the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.
What do you like? How do you feel? Who are you? This brightly illustrated children's book provides a straightforward introduction to gender for anyone aged 5-8. It presents clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how we experience gender: our bodies, our expression and our identity. An interactive three-layered wheel included in the book is a simple, yet powerful, tool to clearly demonstrate the difference between our body, how we express ourselves through our clothes and hobbies, and our gender identity. Ideal for use in the classroom or at home, a short page-by-page guide for adults at the back of the book further explains the key concepts and identifies useful discussion points. This is a one-of-a-kind resource for understanding and celebrating the gender diversity that surrounds us.
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When Shai receives text messages from Marlena, the love of her life, and reads them during class, her dramatic mother finds out what her A-student daughter’s been doing behind her back and kicks her to the curb. Soon Shai becomes involved with an unusual group of friends in exotic Miami. Can a discarded free-thinker turn the corner into a world as wild, hilarious, and painful as her first love—and create a new kind of family? Bella Books is proud to bring the expanded Author’s Edition of this best-selling Young Adult classic to print. Booklist *Starred Review* Sun-filled wonderland of friends, choices, broken hearts, honesty, family and love. – Alex Sanchez, Rainbow Boys Originally published by Harper Teen 2008. Revised edition 2021.
Readers are treated to more than the delight of learning, this book about Cuba offers a rich array of culinary and cultural elements. While creating their own versions of the country's featured recipes, readers will also learn unforgettable details about its geography, history, health, daily life, celebrations, and customs. Includes recipes for picadillo, marquitas, and tres leches cake,
How do we address the idea of the literary now at the end of the second decade in the 21st century? Many traditional categories obscure or overlook significant contemporary forms of cultural production. This volume looks at literature and culture in general in this hinge period. Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national or area studies understandings of cultural production. Topics point to fresh, intersectional understandings of cultural practice, while keeping in mind the ongoing stakes in a struggle over material and intangible cultural and political borders that are being reinforced in formidable ways.
Compendio de Marianao, no ha sido concebido como un texto para especialistas, ni pretende abarcar todos los aspectos que requiere un libro especializado. Tiene carácter transitorio, mientras se continúa investigando y se recopilan las mejores experiencias de avanzada en esta dirección; este es un empeño en el que un ciudadano medio puede aumentar su cultura general integral y, con ello, incrementar su cariño hacia su localidad y su sentido de pertenencia, esto es, su identidad.