This text offers a unique approach to high school or college students of Spanish as a second language as they make the transition from intermediate to advanced-level proficiency and move from acquiring skills in the language itself to learning language through content and content through language. This text responds to the need of anthologizing samples of children's literature in Spanish, accompanied by glosses and language exercises designed to strengthen students' language proficiency, increase their vocabulary, practice critical reading skills, introduce important aspects of Hispanic cultures and familiarize students with well known Hispanic writers.

Colorin Colorado Introduccion a la Literatura Juvenil Hispana

Ann González

Running for My Life is the powerful story of Andrea McKane, a fourteenyear- old who struggles to cope with her mother's schizophrenia. She must face the heartbreaking fact that her mother, with whom she once laughed and played, has vanished into her disease, possibly forever. The book accurately portrays the difficulties a teen faces when dealing with the illness, the abuse and absence of a parent with mental illness. Running for My Life shows the effects of mental illness on a family, and a teenager's attempts to manage the changes that have shaken her life.With courage, strength, and the loving support of her friends, her father, and her therapist, Andrea finds salvation through running. Running for My Life represents a heartwarming, encouraging breakthrough effort in portraying the challenges teens confront when they have to protect themselves from a guardian.

Running for My Life

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Westside Book

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Colorin Colorado Introduccion a la Literatura Juvenil Hispana

Running for My Life