Just Maria
Just Maria

Author: Jay Hardwig

Publisher: Fitzroy Books

Published: 2022-01-07

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781646030828

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Just Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria's task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble City Middle as a double-dork paste-eater. When JJ draws Maria into his latest hare-brained scheme--a series of public challenges to prove their worth as gumshoes for his Twinnoggin Detective Agency--she fears she's lost her last chance to go unnoticed. When a young girl goes missing on the streets of Marble City, Maria's new-found confidence is tested in ways she never anticipated. Use your cane and your brain, and figure it out . . . Aimed at middle-grade readers, Just Maria explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.

Love in English
Love in English

Author: Maria E. Andreu

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0062996533

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A fresh, joyful YA novel that is layered with themes of immigration, cultural identity, and finding your voice in any language. Sixteen-year-old Ana is a poet and a lover of language. Except that since she moved to New Jersey from Argentina, she can barely find the words to express how she feels. At first Ana just wants to return home. Then she meets Harrison, the very cute, very American boy in her math class, and discovers the universal language of racing hearts. But when she begins to spend time with Neo, the Greek Cypriot boy from ESL, Ana wonders how figuring out what her heart wants can be even more confusing than the grammar they’re both trying to master. After all, the rules of English may be confounding, but there are no rules when it comes to love. With playful and poetic breakouts exploring the idiosyncrasies of the English language, Love in English is witty and effervescent, while telling a beautifully observed story about what it means to become “American.”

Summer Birds
Summer Birds

Author: Margarita Engle

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 0805089373

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The story of a young girl living in the Middle Ages who took the time to observe the life cycle of butteflies--and in so doing disproved a theory that went all the way back to ancient Greece. Includes historical note.

Delphi Complete Novels of Maria Edgeworth (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Novels of Maria Edgeworth (Illustrated)

Author: Maria Edgeworth

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2013-11-18

Total Pages: 7894

ISBN-13:

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The esteemed contemporary of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer writer of children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe, whose works depict advanced views on the rights of women, politics, education and her beloved Ireland. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete novels of Maria Edgeworth, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing for the first time in digital print, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Edgeworth's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 9 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Many short story collections – including the classic children’s collections EARLY LESSONS and FRANK, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Also includes the rare short story collection THE MOST UNFORTUNATE DAY OF MY LIFE AND OTHER STORIES, which was published posthumously * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Edgeworth’s plays and a selection of non-fiction * Includes Edgeworth's letters - spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence, with detailed table of contents * Features two biographies, including a selection of her husband’s memoirs - explore Edgeworth's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels CASTLE RACKRENT BELINDA THE MODERN GRISELDA LEONORA PATRONAGE HARRINGTON ORMOND HELEN ORLANDINO The Shorter Fiction THE PARENT’S ASSISTANT HARRY AND LUCY: BEING THE FIRST PART OF EARLY LESSONS MORAL TALES POPULAR TALES TALES OF FASHIONABLE LIFE FRANK: A SEQUEL OF EARLY LESSONS GARRY OWEN; OR, THE SNOW-WOMAN, AND OTHER STORIES THE LITTLE DOG TRUSTY; THE ORANGE MAN; AND THE CHERRY ORCHARD THE MOST UNFORTUNATE DAY OF MY LIFE AND OTHER STORIES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays COMIC DRAMAS IN THREE ACTS The Letters THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARIA EDGEWORTH The Non-Fiction PRACTICAL EDUCATION ESSAY ON IRISH BULLS AN ESSAY ON THE NOBLE SCIENCE OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION The Biographies RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH: A SELECTION FROM HIS MEMOIRS MARIA EDGEWORTH by Helen Zimmern Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Maria Shaw's Book of Love
Maria Shaw's Book of Love

Author: Maria Shaw

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780738705453

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A guide to using astrology, numerology, and palmistry to find friendship and love.

Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian

Author: Sarah B. Pomeroy

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1947440012

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In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis—years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of miles from their home in the Netherlands into the rainforests of South America seeking new and amazing insects to observe and illustrate. Years after her death, Merian’s accurate and beautiful illustrations were used by scientists, including Carl Linnaeus, to classify species, and today her prints and paintings are prized by museums around the world. More than a dozen species of plants and animals are named after Merian. The first Merian biography written for ages 10 and up, this book will enchant budding scientists and artists alike. Readers will be inspired by Merian’s talent, curiosity, and grit and will be swept up in the story of her life, which was adventurous even by today’s standards. With its lively text, quotations from Merian’s own study book, and fascinating sidebars on history, art, and science, this volume is an ideal STEAM title for readers of all ages and interests.

Maria
Maria

Author: Michelle Moran

Publisher: Dell

Published: 2024-07-30

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0593499484

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Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before. “As immersive, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive as the musical . . . This one is not to be missed.”—Allison Pataki, author of Finding Margaret Fuller In the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of a woman named Maria von Trapp. He’s intrigued to learn that she was once a novice who hoped to live quietly as an Austrian nun before her abbey sent her away to teach a widowed baron’s sickly child. What should have been a ten-month assignment, however, unexpectedly turned into a marriage proposal. And when the family was forced to flee their home to escape the Nazis, it was Maria who instructed them on how to survive using nothing but the power of their voices. It’s an inspirational story, to be sure, and as half of the famous Rodgers & Hammerstein duo, Hammerstein knows it has big Broadway potential. Yet much of Maria’s life will have to be reinvented for the stage, and with the horrors of war still fresh in people’s minds, Hammerstein can’t let audiences see just how close the von Trapps came to losing their lives. But when Maria sees the script that is supposedly based on her life, she becomes so incensed that she sets off to confront Hammerstein in person. Told that he’s busy, she is asked to express her concerns to his secretary, Fran, instead. The pair strike up an unlikely friendship as Maria tells Fran about her life, contradicting much of what will eventually appear in The Sound of Music. A tale of love, loss, and the difficult choices that we are often forced to make, Maria is a powerful reminder that the truth is usually more complicated—and certainly more compelling—than the stories immortalized by Hollywood.

Maria Dracula
Maria Dracula

Author: Alice Rose

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-05-06

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0615150993

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A witch apprentice from Salem discovers that she is the great-granddaughter of Dracula from Transylvania - Maria Dracula - and, with his help, she battles a cruel regime and frees his fantastic country. *www.mariadracula.com *A previous version of MARIA DRACULA was a finalist in FOREWORD MAGAZINE's 2005 Book of the Year Annual Awards. *Angela Ursillo, whose work can be seen in such movies as LORD OF THE RINGS and KING KONG, signs the illustrations.

María
María

Author: Alice Lee Marriott

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780806120485

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Major events in the life of Maria Martinez and her husband Julian who revived the ancient Pueblo Indian craft of pottery-making.

Maria's Journey
Maria's Journey

Author: Ramon Arredondo

Publisher: Indiana Historical Society

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0871953196

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Born into the Mexican Revolution, Maria Perez entered an arranged marriage at age fourteen to Miguel Arredondo. The couple and their tiny daughter immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, living in a boxcar while Miguel worked for a Texas railroad and eventually settling in East Chicago, Indiana, where Miguel worked for Inland Steel. Their story includes much of early-twentieth-century America: the rise of unions, the plunge into the Great Depression, the patriotism of World War II, and the starkness of McCarthyism. It is flavored by delivery men hawking fruit and ice, street sports, and Saturday matinees that began with newsreels. Immigration status colors every scene, adding to their story deportation and citizenship, generational problems unique to new immigrants, and a miraculous message of hope.