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Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime--the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed. As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this deadly game of worlds ending. Metzi, Ahkin's treacherous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cast into the underworld after an act of shattering betrayal, Mayana and Ahkin must overcome unimaginable odds if they are to return home and reclaim the throne of the Chicome. A river of blood and demons disguised as children are only two of the challenges standing in their way. Fortunately Mayana's royal blood controls the power of water, and Prince Ahkin wields the power of the sun itself. Back in the lands above, Yemania has survived the empress...
Author
Series
Age of the seventh sun volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all of Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose blood controls the power of water, the old emperor's death...
5) Passport
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages: chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American living abroad, when she has hardly spent any of her life in America. Everything changes when she reads a letter she was never meant to see and uncovers her parents' secret. They are not who they say they are. They are working for the CIA. As Sophia tries...
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Perri and Archer are on another whimsical, time traveling adventure. This time they're in Central America with the Maya. Travel with them as they bounce on botanicals, study the stars, and wrestle with rubber" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Author
Series
Prophecy of days volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caity Mac Fireland of San Francisco accompanies her parents to an isle off the coast of Scotland where she finds a Mayan relic and, guided by a motley crew of advisors, uncovers an incredible secret that an elite group of power-brokers will stop at nothing to control.
Author
Series
Prophecy of days volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While attending a boarding school that allows her to travel around the globe, Caity continues her mission to fulfill a Mayan prophecy and mobilize the world's young people to stop the devastating global reign of the Fraternitas.
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books, an imprint of Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
420L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
As a boy and his Papá travel from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with Mamá, his wonderful new shoes help to distract him from the long and difficult journey.
12) Rain player
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
To bring rain to his thirsty village, Pik challenges the rain god to a game of pok-a-tok.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings. Includes glossary and author's note.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
Español
Description
Young Chico Canta discovers the advantages of being bilingual when the cat Gato-Gatito threatens his mouse family's production of "The Three Little Pigs."
Joven Chico Canta descubre las ventajas de ser bilingüe cuando el gato Gato-Gatito amenaza la producción de su familia de ratones "Los tres cerditos."
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
NC 1310L
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in free-verse narratives, Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.