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Other Words for Home is a 2019 free verse children's book by Jasmine Warga. The story is about a family of Syrian refugees with Jude, a 12-year-old girl, as protagonist. [ 1 ] The book won a 2020 Newbery Honor .
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents is a 1991 novel written by Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist Julia Alvarez.Told in reverse chronological order and narrated from shifting perspectives, the story spans more than thirty years in the lives of four sisters, beginning with their adult lives in the United States and ending with their childhood in the Dominican Republic, a ...
Angela Brazil was born on 30 November 1868, at her home, 1 West Cliff, Preston, Lancashire. [3] [8]: 166 [9] She was the youngest child of Clarence Brazil, a mill manager, and Angelica McKinnel, the daughter of the owner of a shipping line in Rio de Janeiro, who had a Spanish mother.
In this period, middle class girls were taught at Catholic affiliated schools. At the same time, their working class contemporaries were taught in government run schools while girls in rural Spain were largely left uneducated. [9] From 1966 to 1977, the number of primary school students increased from 4 million to 8 million.
The Schoolgirls' Own was . . . started by the Amalgamated Press as a companion paper to the successful School Friend for the girls' story paper market in the same manner as The Gem and [The] Magnet were for the boys, but as those two also had their girl readers, [Schoolgirls' Own] also drew many boy readers.
Girls of Riyadh tells the story of four college-age high class friends in Saudi Arabia, girls looking for love but stymied by a system that allows them only limited freedoms and has very specific expectations and demands. There's little contact between men and women—especially single teens and adults—but modern technology has changed that a ...
It includes Spanish short story writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Spanish women short story writers" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.