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Relates the author's most memorable childhood Christmas, spent in a farm labor tent camp, during which he drew strength from the bond of his family, in a gift book with bilingual text.

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9780395928691, titled "The Christmas Gift/ El Regalo De Navidad: El Regalo De Navidad" | Bilingual edition (Houghton Mifflin, September 27, 2000), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: When his family has to move again a few days before Christmas in order to find work, Panchito worries that he will not get the ball he has been wanting.

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Manuela wants a new yellow party dress for her birthday, but times are hard, and at first she is disappointed when she receives her mother's hand-me-down instead, but she soon realizes she has many things to be thankful for.
By Claire Cotts (illustrator) and Kristyn Estes

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9780811820851 | Chronicle Books Llc, May 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Manuela wants a new dress for her birthday, but times are hard and she is disappointed when she receives a hand-me-down instead

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Product Description: This is a spirited retelling of the true story of Manuel Cordova-Rios, who as a young man was abducted by a tribe of Indians while on a rubber-cutting expedition in the Amazon jungle in 1907. This first-person account relates Cordova-Rios' terrifying capture, his encounters with Shumu, the tribal chief, and his life among the Huni Kui, an isolated tribe possessing sophisticated knowledge of the curative powers of jungle plants and the habits and natures of the many animals that lived with them in the lush tropical jungle...read more

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9781556431739 | North Atlantic Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is a spirited retelling of the true story of Manuel Cordova-Rios, who as a young man was abducted by a tribe of Indians while on a rubber-cutting expedition in the Amazon jungle in 1907.

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