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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
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"A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winnerin the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans....
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"When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm at Shiloh), and a passionate naturalist and geologist, in 1869 Powell tackled the vast and dangerous gorge carved by the Colorado River and known today...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Journey's end: the first crossing of America, 1536 -- Camino Real: the royal road to Mexico City, 1536 -- Mexico City: July 1536 -- Fiesta: July 1536 -- Negro Alarabe -- Natural de Azamor: the slave trade -- Jerez: 1522 -- Seville: 1522-1527 -- Oviedo and Cabeza de Vaca -- Dorantes and the archive of the Indies -- Atlantic crossing: 1527 -- Cuba: 1527-1528 -- Florida: 1528 -- The isle of misfortune: 1528-1529 -- Texas: 1529-1533 -- Shamanism: 1533-1535...
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint? Inan attempt to find out, Fine moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico, where he brazenly vows to grow his own food, use sunlight to power his world, and drive on restaurant grease. Never mind that he...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...
12) Deb Haaland
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As a child of two military parents, Deb Haaland moved around a lot when she was young before finally settling in Albuquerque to be near family. But she persisted, studying hard and eventually earning a law degree. An enrolled member of the Pueblo Laguna nation, Deb was one of the first two Native American women to be elected to Congress, where she represented New Mexico's 1st District. In 2021, when the Senate confirmed her as President Biden's secretary...
13) Pershing
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A portrait of America's first modern combat commander follows his military career from his education, through his service in the Philippines and Mexico, to his role as the leader of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The most renowned Native American Indian potter of her time, Maria Poveka Martinez learned pottery as a child under the guiding hands of her Ko-oo, her aunt. She grew up to discover a new firing technique that turned her pots black and shiny, and made them-and Maria-famous. This inspiring story of family and creativity illuminates how Maria's belief in sharing her love of clay brought success and joy from her New Mexico Pueblo to people all across...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A profile of the twelfth president traces his rise in the military and successes in the Mexican war to his election as the first president without a prior political office, in an account that also offers insight into Taylor's views on slavery and his sudden death.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search of...
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