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Juan, a Quichâe Indian boy from the village of Santiago Sacatepâequez, Guatemala, his brother, and his friends make a giant kite to fly on the Day of the Dead in memory of Juan's grandfather, who taught him how to make the traditional kites.
Reinforced:
9780606175708 | Demco Media, June 1, 1999, cover price $15.80 | About this edition: A Quiche boy makes a giant kite
Hardcover:
9780888993670 | Groundwood Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A Quiche boy makes a giant kite
Paperback:
9780888993816 | Groundwood Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A Quiche boy makes a giant kite
Hardcover:
9780888993663 | Groundwood Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Juan, a Quiche Indian boy from Guatemala, his brother, and his friends make a giant kite to fly on the Day of the Dead
Hardcover:
9780888994301 | Groundwood Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When a pesky mosquito interrupts their sleep, Andrâes and Julliana flee to the jungle to escape the sound and find help, but the animals they find--a monkey, a snake, and a crocodile--are all fast asleep.
Retells the Carib legend about the great flood, when Kaputano descended from Heaven to ask for help in building a great canoe to carry the Caribs and the animals while the earth was covered with water.
Hardcover:
9780888994448 | Groundwood Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Retells the Carib legend about the great flood, when Kaputano descended from Heaven to ask for help in building a great canoe to carry the Caribs and the animals while the earth was covered with water.
Hardcover:
9780888993908 | Groundwood Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When a government official comes into a third grade classroom and tells the students to write a composition entitled 'What My Family Does at Night,' Pedro must decide how he feels about the military dictatorship that is running his country.
Paperback:
9780888995506 | Groundwood Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When his friend's father is arrested and an army captain visits the school and asks them to write a paper on 'What my family does at night,' nine-year-old Pedro must make a difficult decision.
Reinforced:
9780606279727, titled "Composition" | Demco Media, April 1, 2002, cover price $14.70 | About this edition: When his friend's father is arrested and an army captain visits the school and asks them to write a paper on 'What my family does at night,' nine-year-old Pedro must make a difficult decision.
Hardcover:
9780888995483 | Groundwood Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A girl observes family life in two different households--that of her father and grandmother, which is quiet and full of beautiful things, and that of her other grandmother's house where her cousin also lives, which is alive with many people dropping by.
Hardcover:
9780888994592 | Groundwood Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A girl observes family life in two different households--that of her father and grandmother, which is quiet and full of beautiful things, and that of her other grandmother's house where her cousin also lives, which is alive with many people dropping by.
Hardcover:
9780888995582 | Bilingual edition (Groundwood Books, April 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The song of the rooster brings up the sun but in due course the night comes to continue the cycle.
Hardcover:
9780888997135 | Big tra edition (Groundwood Books, September 30, 2006), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: When their father disappears one day, Napâi, an imaginative Mazatec Indian girl, and her brother Niclâe raft upriver to search for him, and their quest turns into a magical journey of self-discovery as various animals offer help and advice.
Hardcover:
9780888998101 | Mul edition (Groundwood Books, March 19, 2007), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Presents illustrations of the twenty symbols for the days of the month from the Aztec calendar, with their names in English, Nahuatl--the Aztec language--and Spanish, along with information on the sculptured calendar known as the Sun Stone.
Hardcover:
9780888996138 | Groundwood Books, May 15, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When Margarita, who lives in a mansion, sees Rosario, her neighbor and friend, steal her tricycle and hide it under a pile of boxes, she decides to lie to protect her friend, in a story about class and conscience.
Hardcover:
9780888996145 | Groundwood Books, May 16, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When Margarita, who lives in a mansion, sees Rosario, her neighbor and friend, steal her tricycle and hide it under a pile of boxes, she decides to lie to protect her friend, in a story about class and conscience.
Hardcover:
9780888997890 | Bilingual edition (Groundwood Books, October 28, 2007), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In a time when death does not yet exist, a nimble figure dreams up a way of keeping the world from being overpopulated by challenging the endlessly reproducing people and animals one by one to a rope-jumping contest with very high stakes.
Product Description: Every single morning of his life, Ivan does the same thing. He gets up. He eats breakfast. He sits at the table. In theory, he does his homework. But instead of studying, Ivan sits at the table and stares hypnotically out the window, mesmerized by the huge morning glory vine growing on the opposite wall...read more
Hardcover:
9780888996428 | Groundwood Books, October 13, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Every morning Ivan goes through his routine of breakfast, homework, and enjoying the beauty of the morning glory vine, but when he sees a rat climbing it one day and begins to scream, chaos ensues as neighbors, the media, and various officials come to see what all the fuss is about.
Prebinding:
9781417812578 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2008, cover price $17.15 | also contains Morning Glory | About this edition: Every single morning of his life, Ivan does the same thing.
Hardcover:
9780888998057 | Bilingual edition (Groundwood Books, April 26, 2007), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In a poetic tale, a boy crashes his bicycle into the sky and breaks off a few pieces, which he takes to school with surprising results, before his classmates repair the breach.
Prebinding:
9781435256583 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $21.95
Hardcover:
9780888998736 | Groundwood Books, June 28, 2008, cover price $17.95
Hardcover:
9780888997951 | Bilingual edition (Groundwood Books, July 28, 2008), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Oloyou the Cat, the very first creature that the God-child creates, is also the very first friend.
Hardcover:
9780888999658, titled "Napi funda un pueblo / Napi Makes a Village" | Bilingual edition (Groundwood Books, March 16, 2010), cover price $18.95 | also contains Napi funda un pueblo / Napi Makes a Village | About this edition: In this third book about NapÃ, the government is building a dam, forcing the Mazateca people to make a new village for themselves on inhospitable land.
Hardcover:
9780888999474 | Groundwood Books, March 1, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Petit is puzzled.
Hardcover:
9781554981786 | Groundwood Books, April 24, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Jimmy lives in a small Caribbean town where there's not a whole lot to do.
Hardcover:
9781554981922 | Groundwood Books, July 24, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: When Stephen spots a beetle he takes off his shoe and raises his arm, ready to strike⦠but then he has second thoughts.
Hardcover:
9781554981793 | Spiral-bound edition (Groundwood Books, August 26, 2012), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Nocturne: Dream Recipes is a unique bedtime book that hints at the magic inherent in dreaming.
Hardcover:
9781554983001 | Bilingual edition (Groundwood Books, March 26, 2013), cover price $18.95
Hardcover:
9781554983322 | Groundwood Books, March 26, 2013, cover price $16.95
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