Download or read book Santiago s Children written by Steve Reifenberg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runner-up, Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Awards: Memoir/Autobiography Category, 2009 Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little more than good intentions and very limited Spanish, the 23-year-old Reifenberg plunged into the life of the Hogar Domingo Savio, becoming a foster father to kids who stretched his capacities for compassion and understanding in ways he never could have imagined back in the United States. In this beautifully written memoir, Reifenberg recalls his two years at the Hogar Domingo Savio. His vivid descriptions create indelible portraits of a dozen remarkable kids—mature-beyond-her-years Verónica; sullen, unresponsive Marcelo; and irrepressible toddler Andrés, among them. As Reifenberg learns more about the children's circumstances, he begins to see the bigger picture of life in Chile at a crucial moment in its history. The early 1980s were a time of economic crisis and political uprising against the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Reifenberg skillfully interweaves the story of the orphanage with the broader national and international forces that dramatically impact the lives of the kids. By the end of Santiago's Children, Reifenberg has told an engrossing story not only of his own coming-of-age, but also of the courage and resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable residents of Latin America.
Download or read book Santiago s Road Home written by Alexandra Diaz and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With every chapter, readers will be further immersed in Santiago’s story as they root for his triumph over injustice.” —Booklist (starred review) “With unflinching conviction, Diaz sketches a frank, brief account of refugee youth in an uncaring bureaucratic system.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Harrowing but deeply illuminating.” —School Library Journal “Diaz’s crucial narrative shines a disconcerting light on the plight of children in US detention centers along the southern border.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States in this timely and unflinching novel by award-winning author Alexandra Diaz. The bed creaks under Santiago’s shivering body. They say a person’s life flashes by before dying. But it’s not his whole life. Just the events that led to this. The important ones, and the ones Santiago would rather forget. The coins in Santiago’s hand are meant for the bus fare back to his abusive abuela’s house. Except he refuses to return; he won’t be missed. His future is uncertain until he meets the kind, maternal María Dolores and her young daughter, Alegría, who help Santiago decide what comes next: He will accompany them to el otro lado, the United States of America. They embark with little, just backpacks with water and a bit of food. To travel together will require trust from all parties, and Santiago is used to going it alone. None of the three travelers realizes that the journey through Mexico to the border is just the beginning of their story.
Download or read book The Children of Santiago written by Don Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about the child spies of the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s that shocked the military attach�, diplomatic and intelligence establishments. And, should be a wake-up call on what can happen to any family living abroad or traveling outside their country. This astonishing disclosure reveals kids such as Aaron, Valerie and Robert, and their military attach� handler, General Santiago, along with the lurking perils that lay hidden in overseas life. Not only was there psychological damage to the youngsters and physical dangers to adults and children alike but the covert maneuver left a perpetual and troublesome scar in the international spy world and with worldwide families. Note; The Children of Santiago is the book 'Archangel'. The eBook and paperback of Archangel has been retired. The Children of Santiago eBook and paperback is the new version, re-titled and updated.
Download or read book Santiago the Dreamer in Land Among the Stars written by Ricky Martin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you reach for the moon sometimes you land among the stars. Santiago’s biggest dream is to perform on stage. But when he doesn’t get the lead role in the school play, he can’t help but doubt himself. Encouraged by his father’s inspiring words, Santiago rebuilds his confidence and finds that with passion and dedication, you can achieve amazing things beyond your wildest imagination. From international superstar Ricky Martin, comes a timeless story of a boy who follows his heart and a father who believes in his son’s boundless potential.
Download or read book When I Was Puerto Rican written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.
Download or read book CARRYING THE SPANIARD S CHILD written by Jennie Lucas and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Just for tonight, forget about the future. Be with me…” Those are the words Angel, a very wealthy mogul from New York, whispered to Belle, the far-less-wealthy waitress. She has trouble believing the hot, arrogant prince wants her. It can’t be… But with the way his gleaming eyes are looking at her, his attraction can’t be denied. Belle decides that, for once, she won’t be the good girl! It was just supposed to be a night to remember. Belle didn’t expect it to become something she might regret for the rest of her life…
Download or read book Santiago s Children written by Steve Reifenberg and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runner-up, Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Awards: Memoir/Autobiography Category, 2009 Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little more than good intentions and very limited Spanish, the 23-year-old Reifenberg plunged into the life of the Hogar Domingo Savio, becoming a foster father to kids who stretched his capacities for compassion and understanding in ways he never could have imagined back in the United States. In this beautifully written memoir, Reifenberg recalls his two years at the Hogar Domingo Savio. His vivid descriptions create indelible portraits of a dozen remarkable kids—mature-beyond-her-years Verónica; sullen, unresponsive Marcelo; and irrepressible toddler Andrés, among them. As Reifenberg learns more about the children's circumstances, he begins to see the bigger picture of life in Chile at a crucial moment in its history. The early 1980s were a time of economic crisis and political uprising against the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Reifenberg skillfully interweaves the story of the orphanage with the broader national and international forces that dramatically impact the lives of the kids. By the end of Santiago's Children, Reifenberg has told an engrossing story not only of his own coming-of-age, but also of the courage and resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable residents of Latin America.
Download or read book Children Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Santiago s Love Child written by Kim Lawrence and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santiago Morais is strong, proud and fiercely passionate—everything that Lily's treacherous husband wasn't. It's in Santiago's arms that Lily finds herself awakened—she's not the frigid woman she believed herself to be. But a shocking discovery convinces Santiago that Lily has betrayed him, and he sends her away, not realizing that he is the father of her unborn child. Will Lily face motherhood alone?
Download or read book Santiago Stays written by Angela Dominguez and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominguez presents a humorous and endearing portrait of a stubborn French bulldog and a determined little boy. Full color.
Download or read book Conquistadora written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in the United States, and Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own in this epic novel of love, discovery and adventure.
Download or read book SANTIAGO S LOVE CHILD Vol 2 written by Kim Lawrence and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After times get tough for Lily, her best friend, Rachel, has an idea for how to cheer her up—a weekend getaway with a handsome man! It takes some convincing, but Lily agrees to go along with it…only to find out that the man in question is Santiago Morais, a man she loved and thought she’d never see again. What a cruel coincidence! Lily curses her luck. She met Santiago in Spain the year before. One split second was all it took for them to fall in love. But after days of passionate bliss, their love shattered into a million little pieces. Santiago thought he had Lily all figured out—he thought she was a heartless woman who would say anything to seduce a man… Now she has to face him again and look him in the eye…but unlike last year, his eyes now burn with anger.
Download or read book Pilgrim s Guide to the Camino Frances written by John Brierley and published by Findhorn Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The route of St Jean Pied de Port in the foothills of the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela represents one of the most popular Christian pilgrimages in the world. Walked by millions over the millennia it represents a force for spiritual transformation. This title offers a guide to the pilgrimage, including a fold out map and route planner, 33 daily stage maps with contour guides, 10 town maps including Santiago, a Sun Compass, to orientate your direction and information on all pilgrim hostels along the way together with details of alternative accommodation.
Download or read book Happy Birthday Santiago The Big Birthday Activity Book written by BirthdayDr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Birthday Santiago is a personalized kids activity book, it includes personalized crosswords, word searches, number puzzles, jokes, drawing and coloring >It is suitable for children between 6-11 years old It is the perfect birthday present for Santiago, and is a great keepsake for parents to remember their child's early years and birthdays This personalized book is available for other names also This is a great gift for children and an amazing keepsake for parents Happy Birthday Santiago
Download or read book The Storyteller s Candle written by Lucía M. González and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early years of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican library, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.
Download or read book Our Forest Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whole Child Whole School written by Eileen Santiago and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique examination on the ways in which educating the whole child in the community school serves to ameliorate the conditions of poverty and obstacles to learning faced by students. Using a case study approach the book will highlight the successful journey of one school that transformed itself into a community school. Given the rise in poverty nation–wide and the unprecedented economic crisis, many school districts are looking for innovative ways to garner resources for their schools. The strategies outlined in this book will provide suggestions for using the resources of community partnerships as a framework for school renewal and improvement in student achievement. The authors share their first hand experiences building a community school from the ground up, as well as providing the national perspective on community schools. Given the power of the community school, this book concludes with a “call to action” for the dissemination of this model and its embrace of whole child education
