A Mango In The Hand

Author : Antonio Sacre
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613120873

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A Mango in the Hand by Antonio Sacre Pdf

Francisco is finally old enough to journey to the mango grove all by himself to gather the mangoes for a special dinner. But bees swarm the fruit, and Francisco has trouble picking them from the tree. He returns to his father several times, and each time his father shares a different proverb to inspire Francisco to continue trying. "Querer es poder. Where there's a will, there's a way!" Finally, Francisco is able to gather some mangoes, and on his way home he stops to visit his uncle, grandmother, and aunt. Francisco shares his mangoes with them, and by the time he gets home he no longer has any! "Es mejor dar que recibir. Sometimes it's better to give than to receive." Luckily for Francisco, his generosity does not go unnoticed. "Amor con amor se paga. Love is repaid with love." Readers are sure to be charmed by this humorous story about problem solving and sharing. The book includes a glossary of Spanish words. Praise for A Mango in the Hand “A "story told through proverbs" could easily go terribly wrong, but this sweet tale succeeds beautifully. This smoothly written family story is filled with warmth and humor and incorporates a blending of well-placed proverbs in both Spanish and English to drive the story’s themes. Digitally colored pencil-and-ink cartoon drawings reflect the lush greens of summertime and outdoor living in this intergenerational barrio.” –Kirkus Reviews

Author : Mariatu Kamara
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554512140

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The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara Pdf

As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands. Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived. The sweet taste of a mango, her first food after the attack, reaffirmed her desire to live, but the challenge of clutching the fruit in her bloodied arms reinforced the grim new reality that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her and living in a refugee camp, she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown. As told to her by Mariatu, journalist Susan McClelland has written the heartbreaking true story of the brutal attack, its aftermath and Mariatu’s eventual arrival in Toronto where she began to pull together the pieces of her broken life with courage, astonishing resilience and hope.

Author : Kereen Getten
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593173992

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When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten Pdf

Named to Oprah Magazine's Best Caribbean Books for Your 2021 reading list, imagination and adventure run wild in the most talked about middle grade debut of the year! A small village on a Jamaican island. A girl who doesn't remember the previous summer. A best friend who is no longer acting like one; a new girl who fills that hole in her heart. A summer of finding fallen mangos, creating made up games and dancing in the rain. Secrets she keeps from others...and herself. The courage to face the truth even in the toughest of storms. Inspired by the author's childhood experiences, When Life Give You Mangos is a celebration of island life as well as a rich, lyrical mystery. Read it...and don't spoil the unforgettable ending! A recommended read for classroom discussons and educators looking for diverse offerings. "A heartfelt and accessible debut about friendship, memory, and forgiveness." —Tae Keller, author of Newbery Medal winner When You Trap a Tiger "A wonderful story with great heart, mystery, and insight. Kereen Getten is a bright new voice." —Clare Vanderpool, author of Newbery Medal winner Moon Over Manifest and Printz Honor book Navigating Early "A heartwarming yet suspenseful debut about the strength of family, the turmoil of friendships lost and found, and most importantly, remembering who you are." —Lynne Kelly, author of the Schneider award winner Song for a Whale

Author : Sandra Hardy
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460244470

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Roots as Strong as a Mango Tree by Sandra Hardy Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Pickersgill, the only child of an upper middle class Jamaican couple, finds her idyllic life turned upside down when her family suffers a tragic loss. That seminal moment in her life is eclipsed, however, when she discovers that her parents have been keeping a shocking secret. At first, she wants to learn more but is quickly overwhelmed by what she finds. Hiding a deep-seated shame, she decides to put it all behind her in the same tight-lipped tradition of her family. When she meets Stephen Blake, a handsome, self-confident boy, she falls devotedly in love with him. But Stephen has a secret of his own that brings their relationship to a sudden end, devastating Victoria. Surprisingly it is Jean King, the family's housekeeper, who becomes her anchor, guiding her until she leaves for college with the goal of leaving her demons behind. But the past intrudes on the present. Stephen comes back into her life six years after breaking her heart, determined to get her back. And new revelations regarding that long buried secret, forces Victoria to ask herself if it's possible to chart her future if she cannot face her past.

Author : Evy Journey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996247483

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The Shade Under the Mango Tree by Evy Journey Pdf

After two heartbreaking losses, Luna wants adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. She ends up in place where she gets more than she bargained for.Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger's journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don't stop him. His decision to go on reading changes his life.Months later, Luna and Lucien meet at a bookstore where Luna works and which Lucien frequents. Fascinated by his stories and adventurous spirit, Luna goes to a rural rice-growing village in a country steeped in an ancient culture and a deadly history. What she finds there defies anything she could have imagined. Will she leave this world unscathed?An epistolary tale of courage, resilience of the human spirit, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.

Author : Victor Halstrøm
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788743031963

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Ringing the Bell of Freedom by Victor Halstrøm Pdf

From the book: "Okay, let's do it" she said and tried to sound brave although I could tell by her shaking voice that she was scared by the thought. She somehow found resources inside her to be brave. It happened so quickly in her heart and mind that I got the idea that she had done this several times before. Panic was washed away from her face and her eyes glowed soothingly, so I hardly could imagine the fear that had been torturing her soul just seconds earlier. An airplane crashes into the jungle carrying two people, the American man, Shen Mi Ren, and the Chinese woman, Nian Ye. They both survive the accident and find themselves among snakes, bats, crocodiles, and other enemies of the environment. They share the same goal as they both want to get back to civili-zation. And they both suffer from amnesia. But that is all they have in common. They must work together, but can they trust each other when only the jungle law rules? The story origins from a book which my friend Captain Fleet has found in the desert. He claims that the book itself has written the story. Is that even possible?

Author : Sandra Cisneros
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345807199

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

Author : James Peterson
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781607744061

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Cooking by James Peterson Pdf

In an era of outfitted home kitchens and food fascination, it's no wonder home cooks who never learned the fundamentals of the kitchen are intimidated. Twenty years ago, James Peterson could relate, and so he taught himself by cooking his way through professional kitchens and stacks of books, logging the lessons of his kitchen education one by one. Now one of the country's most revered cooking teachers, Peterson provides the confidence-building instructions home cooks need to teach themselves to cook consistently with ease and success. COOKING is the only all-in-one instructional that details the techniques that cooks really need to master, teaches all the basic recipes, and includes hundreds of photos that illuminate and inspire. • Cooking authority James Peterson's definitive, all-inclusive learn-to-cook cookbook. • 600 hard-working recipes everyone should know how to make-from the perfect roasted chicken to bouillabaisse and apple pie. • 1,500 instructional photos, showing exactly how recipes are made, teach food-literate novices to cook with confidence and more advanced cooks to expand their repertoire. • James Peterson has more than 1 million cookbooks in print. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Fracaswell Hyman
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781454923336

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Mango Delight by Fracaswell Hyman Pdf

“Mango is as delightful as her middle name indicates, and middle-grade readers will easily recognize their own experiences in her friendship struggles.” —Booklist (starred review) What happens when your BFF becomes your EFF . . . EX-Friend-Forever? When seventh-grader Mango Delight Fuller accidentally breaks her BFF Brooklyn’s new cell phone, her life falls apart. She loses her friends and her spot on the track team, and even costs her father his job as a chef. But Brooklyn’s planned revenge—sneakily signing up Mango to audition for the school musical—backfires when Mango not only wins the lead role, but becomes a YouTube sensation and attracts the attention of the school’s queen bee, Hailey Jo. Hailey Jo is from a VERY wealthy family, and expects everyone to do her bidding. Soon Mango finds herself forced to make tough choices about the kind of friend she wants to have . . . and, just as important, the kind of friend she wants to be.

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Charities
ISBN : UFL:31262058466524

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Lend a Hand by Edward Everett Hale Pdf

Author : Indian Museum,John Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Archaeological museums and collections
ISBN : BSB:BSB11551477

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Catalogue and Hand-book of the Archaeological Collections in the Indian Museum by Indian Museum,John Anderson Pdf

Author : Mohammed Hanif
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184002324

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A case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif Pdf

In August 1988, Zia gets into the presidential plane, Pak One, which explodes midway. Who killed him? The army generals growing old waiting for their promotions, the CIA, the ISI, RAW, or Ali Shigri, a junior officer at the military academy whose father, a whisky-swilling jihadi colonel, was murdered by the army? A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, black, inventive, and utterly gripping. It marks the debut of a brilliant new writer.

Author : Pratapaditya Pal,National Gallery of Canada,Bayeux Arts (Firm)
Publisher : Bayeux Arts, Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 189620905X

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Divine Images, Human Visions by Pratapaditya Pal,National Gallery of Canada,Bayeux Arts (Firm) Pdf

Over 150 exquisite color illustrations and text make this account of one of North America's finest South Asian art collections an invaluable guide.

Author : Joshua Kadison
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786864575

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Seventeen Ways to Eat a Mango by Joshua Kadison Pdf

This extraordinary novel in the form of a "discovered journal" tells the story of J., a young botanist who is sent to the remote tropical island of Sakahara to explore the possibility of installing a mango cannery for a multinational corporation. J. has every intention of collecting the necessary samples, writing a report, and returning home to collect his paycheck. But a series of "chance" encounters with an island sage names Katchumo send these plans totally awry. The old man's Buddha-like habit of distilling perfect pearls of wisdom forces J. to question everything from his association with the canning company to his perception of the world around him. With humor and compassion, Katchumo teaches J. the mysterious beauty of simple pleasures as he reveals the seventeen ways. An enchanting story about one man's discovery of life's elusive secrets, SEVENTEEN WAYS TO EAT A MANGO inspires us to embrace the magic in our own lives.

Author : Haroon Siddiqui
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459748927

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My Name Is Not Harry by Haroon Siddiqui Pdf

“A distinctive and insightful perspective on being Muslim in the post-9/11 world.” — Charles Taylor Veteran Toronto Star editor Haroon Siddiqui, brown and Muslim, has spent a life on the media front lines, covering conflicts both global and local, and tracked rising xenophobia. Canada has no official culture. It follows that there's no standard way of being Canadian, beyond obeying the law. Toronto Star editor Haroon Siddiqui shows how Canada let him succeed on his own terms. Coming from India in 1967, he didn't do in Rome as some Romans expected him to. He refused to forget his past. He didn't change his name, didn't dilute his dignity, didn't compromise his conscience or his dissident views. Championed immigration and multiculturalism when that was not popular. Upbraided media colleagues for being white-centric, Orientalist. Pioneered cross-cultural journalism, bridging divided communities. Insisted it was un-Canadian to use free speech as a licence for hate speech. Opposed the limitless American war on terror, the invasion of Iraq, the long war on Afghanistan. Exposed how liberals could also be narrow-minded and nasty. Here he shares such journalistic forays into the corridors of power, war zones, and cultural minefields. He also takes the reader along his personal journey from British colonial India to the evolution of Canada as the only Western nation where skin colour is no longer a fault line.