Download or read book Just Maria written by Jay Hardwig and published by Fitzroy Books. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria's task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble City Middle as a double-dork paste-eater. When JJ draws Maria into his latest hare-brained scheme--a series of public challenges to prove their worth as gumshoes for his Twinnoggin Detective Agency--she fears she's lost her last chance to go unnoticed. When a young girl goes missing on the streets of Marble City, Maria's new-found confidence is tested in ways she never anticipated. Use your cane and your brain, and figure it out . . . Aimed at middle-grade readers, Just Maria explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.

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Download or read book Maria Never Gives Up written by Mary Baliker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Never Gives Up is a story of hope and bravery when a little girl becomes ill and how life as she knew it changed. Maria was diagnosed with kidney disease at the age of nine. It is based on real life events. This book is designed to help children in their personal struggle with the emotional and physical roller coaster that is brought on by a chronic illness to ease the process and understand. What makes the story unique is it is told by Maria's Teddy Bear, Teddy. He makes her life a little more "Bear-able." Maria is a brave little girl and never gives up. "Are You Like Me?"

Download or read book The Treasure of Maria Mamoun written by Michelle Chalfoun and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Arab American Book Award Twelve-year-old Maria lives a lonely, latchkey-kid's life in the Bronx. Her Lebanese mother is working two nursing jobs to keep them afloat, and Maria keeps her worries to herself, not wanting to be a burden. Then something happens one day between home and school that changes everything. Mom whisks them to an altogether different world on Martha's Vineyard, where she's found a job on a seaside estate. While the mysterious bedridden owner—a former film director—keeps her mother busy, Maria has the freedom to explore a place she thought could only exist in the movies. Making friends with a troublesome local character, Maria finds an old sailboat that could make a marvelous clubhouse. She also stumbles upon an old map that she is sure will lead to pirate's plunder—but golden treasure may not be the most valuable thing she discovers for herself this special summer.

Download or read book Taste of Darkness written by Maria V. Snyder and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the compelling mystical world of the Healer series by New York Times bestselling author Maria V. Snyder. She’s fought death and won. But how can she fight her fears? Avry knows hardship and trouble. She fought the plague and survived. She took on King Tohon and defeated him. But now her heart-mate, Kerrick, is missing, and Avry fears he’s gone forever. But there’s a more immediate threat. The Skeleton King plots to claim the Fifteen Realms for his own. With armies in disarray and the dead not staying down, Avry’s healing powers are needed now more than ever. Torn between love and loyalty, Avry must choose her path carefully. For the future of her world depends on her decision… Originally published in 2014

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Download or read book Mar a written by Jorge Issacs and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: María (1867) is a novel by Jorge Isaacs. Partly inspired by his own life, María is a moving story of romance, hope, and tragedy by a leading author of the Spanish Romantic movement. The novel was Isaacs’ debut work of fiction and seemed to promise him a lengthy career in Colombian literature. As he dedicated himself to politics, however, he largely abandoned his youthful commitment to writing in favor of a more conventional career. Raised in the idyllic countryside of Valle del Cauca, María and Efraín develop a love for one another that refuses to die. Forced apart by familial expectations, Efraín leaves his lover to study in Bogotá, and remains in the Colombian capital for six years. Desperate to return, he leaves the city and reunites with María, who waited patiently the whole time he was away. As the two begin preparing for a life together in their beautiful homeland, Efraín learns that his family has other plans for him. In a few months’ time, he is expected to travel to London and enroll in medical school, guaranteeing years away from his home and his young, faithful love. As the day of his departure approaches, Efraín and María attempt to recapture the simplistic joy of their youth but find themselves drifting further into doubt than ever before. María is a masterpiece of Romantic literature from a talented writer who blossomed early and never managed to live up to his astounding promise. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jorge Isaacs’ María is a classic of Colombian literature reimagined for modern readers.

Download or read book In the Dream House written by Carmen Maria Machado and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

Download or read book Mother Maria written by Angelic Tarasio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mother Maria," "Home-Coming"and "Bridge to the Sky" are parts of trilogy “God's Miracles in Lives of Regular People” with main character Countess Maria Kotyk-Kurbatov. Trilogy is based on journals of Countess Maria. Descriptive imagination of author transformed dry data into inspirational life and love story. The readers transcend space and time, joining Maria in her happiness and heartbreaking sadness, life-saving love and devastating losses, terrible hardships and miraculous triumphs. It motivates us to survive and succeed through the hardships of present-day time. “Mother Maria” is the first part of trilogy, where author introduces readers to life of a noble family. Countess Maria a 3rd generation physician who graduated from medical school in France. She was engaged with a French surgeon Count Alexander Kurbatov. The bride left to visit her family before wedding. In 1939, a new regime came to many territories and countries of the Eastern Europe. They were annexed from Poland and Germany by “red octopus” USSR. Tragedy of Nazi occupation pushed Maria in whirlpool of vicious events. Protecting lives of their Jewish housekeeper and her daughter Rose, Maria was thrown with Jewish people on a train that took them to concentration camp, “as raw material for Nazi experiments”. The readers discover how Maria’s faith saved her and Rose from untimed death. Instead, they were sent to a cattle farm in Germany to a violent farm owner. Join Maria, as she escaped from the farm with false label of “a Russian spy”. In a matter of few years, Maria gained lifetime experience. At life-threatening moment, when all inmates of concentration camps were ordered to be killed, Maria’s fiancé rejoins her lifepath and rescues her from Nazi slavery. The readers accompany the couple on their dangerous trip from north of Germany to borders of France, as Maria’s and Alexander’s love blooms. Marie concluded, “Nazism lost in spiritual battle because people with strong Faith and Love are victorious.” From the Author: “Dear readers, you are invited to discover the inspiring true-life journey of a regular person, whose faith saved her life under nazi and communist regimes and helped to succeed.” Content Words: • Inspirational • Romance • Family Saga • Europe • World War II • Concentration camp

Download or read book Protean Literacy written by Concha Delgado-Gaitan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996. During the author's decade of critical ethnography in Carpinteria, California, she has illuminated the intricate relationships between Latino families as together they build a sociopolitical community to bridge family and school alliances. How they extend their learning from the social networks to the family arena and to the personal, and in reverse, represents their protean responses to the diversity and adversity in their lives. This life-story captures the collective and individual texts of the Latino children, their parents and educators used to empower themselves to transform discontinuity in an age where continuity is increasingly foreign.

Download or read book Mar a of greda written by Marilyn H. Fedewa and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-10-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News of María of Ágreda's exceptional attributes spread from her cloistered convent in seventeenth-century Ågreda (Spain) to the court in Madrid and beyond. Without leaving her village, the abbess impacted the kingdom, her church, and the New World; Spanish Hapsburg king Felipe IV sought her spiritual and political counsel for over twenty-two years. Based upon her transcendent visionary experiences, Sor María chronicled the life of Mary, mother of Jesus of Nazareth, in Mystical City of God, a work the Spanish Inquisition temporarily condemned. In America, reports emerged that she had miraculously appeared to Jumano Native Americans - a feat corroborated by witnesses in Spain, Texas, and New Mexico, where she is honored today as the legendary "Lady in Blue." Lauded in Spain as one of the most influential women in its history, and in the United States as an inspiring pioneer, Sor María's story will appeal to cultural historians and to women who have struggled for equanimity against all odds. Marilyn Fedewa's biography of this fascinating woman integrates voluminous autobiographical, historical, and literary sources published by and about María of Ágreda. With liberal access to Sor María's papal delegate in Spain and convent archives in Ágreda, Fedewa skillfully reconstructs a historical and spiritual backdrop against which Sor María's voice may be heard. "Marilyn Fedewa has written a stirring portrait of María of Ágreda, a brilliant . . . remarkable player in major spiritual and secular events of [her] age." - Kenneth A. Briggs, former religion editor for the New York Times "A fascinating biography of an extraordinary woman told from the perspective of her 17th-century Spanish religious culture." - Clark A. Colahan, author of Visions of Sor María de Ágreda: Writing Knowledge and Power

Download or read book Maria s Freedom at Last written by Rita D'Alessio and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maria first came to America from Italy, she hoped that some day she would live the American dream. She thought she found her happiness when she met and married Michael. Instead, over the years, she became a battered woman. After many years and four daughters later, things changed for the better. She has now made a new life for her and her daughters. They had little problems starting their new life together without Michael, but now they have more happiness as they raise their families and enjoy each other.

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