Resau, Laura

Summary: Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants totalk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019

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Theroux, Paul.

Summary: Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005

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Resau, Laura.

Summary: A child in Ecuador is sent to be the servant of a rich mestizo family where she is mistreated. She teaches herself to read and write and escapes, but she is lost between two cultures. Based on a true story.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011

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Córdova, Zoraida

Summary: "Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, this is a gorgeously written novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited, from the author of the acclaimed and "giddily exciting" (The New York Times Book Review) Brooklyn Brujas series"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

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