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[In 1978] at the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi -- a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing the military regime that took her mother -- it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina's elite girls. Mavi tries to embrace the strangeness of the imposing house -- despite warnings not to roam at night, threats from an enigmatic...
6) 9 kilometers
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"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
7) Jemmy Button
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Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.
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Pedro, que tiene nueve anos, realiza gradualmente de la opresión de su gobierno cuando observa el arresto de un amigo de su padre y la composición que escribe en la escuela sobre las actividades nocturnas de su familia.
Nine-year-old Pedro gradually becomes aware of the oppressive nature of the government when he witnesses the arrest of his friend's father and the composition he must write at school about his family's activities at night.
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Introduces young readers to the power of civil debate through a story about some upper-elementary-aged Chilean students who are divided on the issue of whether a much-loved old monkey puzzle tree should be cut down to make room for new science classrooms and computer labs at their school. Includes monkey puzzle tree facts.
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Celeste Marconi siempre ha sido una soñadora. Su mayor deseo es que todo vuelva a ser como era antes. Antes de la dictadura. Antes de que sus padres tuvieran que esconderse. Antes de que la enviaran desde Chile a vivir con su tía a la costa de Maine. Antes de regresar a casa solo para descubrir que muchas cosas habían cambiado. Pero, más que nada, anhela saber qué le pasó a su mejor amiga. Lucila desapareció durante la dictadura junto con tanto...
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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people...
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