Letters from Heaven / Cartas del cielo (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Celeste is heartbroken when her grandmother dies. But everything changes whena letter mysteriously comes in the mail—from Grandma! "I know you miss me asmuch as I miss you. Don't be sad. Where there is love, there is no sadness." As letterscontinue to...
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Celeste is heartbroken when her grandmother dies. But everything changes whena letter mysteriously comes in the mail—from Grandma! "I know you miss me asmuch as I miss you. Don't be sad. Where there is love, there is no sadness." As letterscontinue to arrive from the beyond, each with a recipe of a favorite food her grandmotherused to prepare, Celeste consoles herself by learning how to cook the dishes.Meanwhile, without Grandma's social security check, Mami needs to get a secondjob to make ends meet. Celeste has to quit dance lessons, and a bully at schoolgloats that she will replace Celeste as the star in the upcoming recital. To top thingsoff, her friends think that she's gone crazy; dead people can't send letters!When a final letter arrives, Celeste realizes that all the recipes combined make an entiremeal:café con leche, guava and cheese croissants,congrí, plantain chips,ropa viejaandflan. Can she really make a Cuban feast to celebrate her cherished grandmother's life?A tender story of family and friendship,Letters from Heaven / Cartas del cielocelebrates Latino traditions, especiallythose of the Spanish Caribbean. This entertaining novel is written in ten brief chapters for children ages 8-12 andincludes six traditional Cuban recipes with easy-to-follow instructions.
Autoren-Porträt von Lydia Gil
Lydia Gil was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, of Cuban parents. She is the author of a bilingual "flip" book for intermediate readers,Letters from Heaven / Cartas del cielo(Piñata Books, 2014), and a bilingual children's picture book,Mimí's Parranda / La parranda de Mimí(Piñata Books, 2007). She teaches at the University of Denver and writes for EFE, the leading Spanish-language news agency. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lydia Gil
- 2014, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Gabriela Baeza Ventura
- ISBN-10: 1611928737
- ISBN-13: 9781611928730
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2014
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