Download or read book The Iguana Tree written by Michel Stone and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. Michel Stone s harrowing novel meticulously examines the obstacles each faces in pursuing a new life: manipulation, rape, and murder in the perilous commerce of border crossings; betrayal by family and friends; exploitation by corrupt officials and rapacious landowners on the U.S. side; and, finally, the inexorable workings of the U.S. justice system. Hector and Lilia meet Americans willing to help them with legal assistance and offers of responsible employment, but their illegal entry seems certain to prove their undoing. The consequences of their decisions are devastating. In the end, The Iguana Tree is a universal story of loss, grief, and human dignity.
Download or read book The Iguana Tree written by Michel Stone and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. Michel Stone s harrowing novel meticulously examines the obstacles each faces in pursuing a new life: manipulation, rape, and murder in the perilous commerce of border crossings; betrayal by family and friends; exploitation by corrupt officials and rapacious landowners on the U.S. side; and, finally, the inexorable workings of the U.S. justice system. Hector and Lilia meet Americans willing to help them with legal assistance and offers of responsible employment, but their illegal entry seems certain to prove their undoing. The consequences of their decisions are devastating. In the end, The Iguana Tree is a universal story of loss, grief, and human dignity.
Download or read book Border Child written by Michel Stone and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Héctor and Lilia, pursuit of the American Dream became every parent's worst fear when their infant daughter vanished as they crossed from Mexico to the United States—now they must try to get her back. With great empathy and a keen awareness of current events, Michel Stone delivers a novel of surpassing sensitivity and heart. Young lovers Héctor and Lilia dreamed of a brighter future for their family in the United States. Héctor left Mexico first, to secure work and housing, but when Lilia, desperate to be with Héctor, impetuously crossed the border with their infant daughter, Alejandra, mother and child were separated. Alejandra disappeared. Now, four years later, the family has a chance to reunite, but the trauma of the past may well be permanent. Back in their sleepy hometown of Oaxaca, the couple enjoys a semblance of normal life, with a toddler son and another baby on the way. Then they receive an unexpected tip that might lead them to Alejandra, and both agree they must seize this chance, whatever the cost. Working increasingly illegal jobs to earn money for his journey north, Héctor seeks more information about his long-absent daughter. Meanwhile, a bedridden Lilia awaits the birth of their third child, but cannot keep herself from reliving the worst mistakes of her past. In luminous, compassionate prose, Michel Stone drops readers into the whirlwind of the contemporary immigrant experience, where a marriage is strained to the breaking point by the consequences of wanting more for the next generation.
Download or read book Ma ana Iguana written by Ann Whitford Paul and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comical takeoff on the familiar Little Red Hen story, this upbeat read-along is brought vividly to life through Brian and Rosi Amador's tandem narration. ...Soft Latin background music is a lilting accompaniment." -Booklist
Download or read book Chomp written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller, one kid has to wrangle gators, snakes, bats that bite, and a reality show host gone rogue! This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! When Wahoo Cray’s dad—a professional animal wrangler—takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival!, Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself to keep his father from killing Derek Badger, the show's inept and egotistical star. But the job keeps getting more complicated: Derek Badger insists on using wild animals for his stunts; and Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna—a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her father and needs a place to hide out. They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . . It's anyone's guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival. . . “Only in Florida—and in the fiction of its native son Carl Hiaasen—does a dead iguana fall from a palm tree and kill somebody.” —New York Post “Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.” —Los Angeles Times
Download or read book Sliced Iguana written by Isabella Tree and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-01-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the facade of sombreros and tequila, tourist traps and holiday resorts, there lies a very different Mexico. In Sliced Iguana, Isabella Tree finds a town controlled by arm-wrestling matriarchs and party-mad transvestites and in war-torn Chiapas she discovers shamans worshipping Mayan gods inside Catholic churches and conducting exorcisms with the aid of Pepsi. This is a story of Mexico like no other, capturing the essence of its psyche and illuminating the struggles and hopes of a people and a country on the cusp of change.
Download or read book The Iguana Killer written by Alberto Ríos and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set along the Southwestern border, these stories explore growing up Hispanic and weaving together three distinct worlds--Mexico, the United States, and childhood.
Download or read book Grumpy the Iguana written by Susan Marie Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT AN IGUANA THAT LIVES IN FLAMINGO PARK IN MIAMI BEACH. GRUMPY IS A HAPPY IGUANA UNTIL ONE DAY WHEN SOMETHING GOES TERRIBLY WRONG. IT IS NOT UNTIL GRUMPY MAKES A NEW FRIEND THAT HE IS ABLE TO PUT HIS LIFE BACK TOGETHER
Download or read book The Flight of the Iguana written by David Quammen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-02-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author brings to life the weird and wonderful pageant of nature in essays ranging from tales of vegetarian piranha to dogs without voices.
Download or read book I Wanna Iguana written by Karen Kaufman Orloff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious notes between a son and his mom show how kid logic can be very persuasive. Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home. Alex's reassures her: It takes fifteen years for an iguana to get that big. I'll be married by then and probably living in my own house His mom's reply: How are you going to get a girl to marry you when you own a giant reptile? Kis will be in hysterics as the negotiations go back and forth through notes, and the lively, imaginative illustrations showing their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana take the humor to even higher heights.
Download or read book Izzy the Iguana written by Kaley Owen and published by Animal Alphabet. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Tree Named Steve written by Alan Zweibel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Kids, A long time ago, when you were little, Mom and I took you to where we wanted to build a house. . . . I remember there was one tree, however, that the three of you couldn’t stop staring at. . . . After the family spares him from the builders, Steve the tree quickly works his way into their lives. He holds their underwear when the dryer breaks down, he’s there when Adam and Lindsay get their first crushes, and he’s the centerpiece at their outdoor family parties. With a surprising lack of anthropomorphizing, this is a uniquely poignant celebration of fatherhood, families, love, and change.
Download or read book I d Rather Have an Iguana written by Heidi Stetson Mario and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mom brings home a new baby, a little girl thinks she would rather have an iguana until she starts to get to know her baby brother.
Download or read book The Color Tree written by Denise Bennett Minnerly and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Color Tree is a magical fantasy for readers ages 3-8, in which lessons of color and color mixing are being taught. A little boy coming upon a colorless landscape realizes the world needs color and begins throwing magical apples at everything in sight. With each hit, color appears until the entire landscape is awash in color. 32 pages, hardcover.
Download or read book Days and Nights of the Blue Iguana written by Heather H. Royes and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica is the thematic epicenter of this compassionate, painterly collection of poems about the islands of the Caribbean and beyond. The story of the Ancestors--a nomadic family that wanders up and down Jamaica--is related with a breathtaking descriptiveness that uncovers both love and exasperation for the tropical island. This collection also contains a selection of the most popular poems from the author's first book of poetry, The Caribbean Raj.
Download or read book Keala Up a Tree written by Patricia McLean and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gecko needs a home, and Keala is determined to find him one! The nene, the dophins, the butterflies, and all of her Hawaiian animal friends are on hand to help as Keala starts her hunt. But where does gecko want to live? Up in the palm tree, Keala can see all of Maui, and maybe the perfect place for her fussy friend!
Download or read book The Iguana Den s Care and Keeping of Giant Green Iguanas written by Meredith Martin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giant Green Iguanas have become a very popular pet in recent years. Unfortunately, too many people who own iguanas either donât have the right care information or are given the wrong information, and many of these iguanas do not make it to adulthood. The Iguana Denâs Care and Keeping of Giant Green Iguanas provides tested, true, and up to date methods of iguana husbandry that have been developed from years of rescuing and rehabbing iguanas. This book is a must-have for both new and experienced iguana keepers. The book is based on the original Iguana Den website: www.iguanaden.com, and all proceeds from the sale benefit the shelter animals at Scales and Tails Rescue, Inc., a non-profit organization.
