by Johnston McCulley
Barnes & Noble Recommended Age: Teenager
Publisher: Townsend Press
ISBN-13: 978-1591940715
Originally titled “THE CURSE OF CAPISTRANO,” this is the first Zorro story. In California in the early 1800s, a corrupt governor and his army abuse the helpless and cheat the poor. While the evil Captain Ramón doggedly seeks revenge, the beautiful Señorita Lolita Pulido must choose between the man she loves and a man who can restore her family’s reputation. Enter Señor Zorro, a mysterious masked rider who uses his sword and his whip to stand up to the forces of evil. NOTE: This story was first published in 1919, making 2019 the 100th anniversary of the creation of Zorro.
by Rebecca Tinker
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 5 – 7
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-1328495297
For decades, people have asked the question: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? But just who is this infamous and elusive globe-trotting criminal? A skilled thief on a mysterious mission, Carmen Sandiego is pursued by ACME and Interpol. But the woman in the red fedora is always one step ahead! In this novelization, based on the Netflix animated series (with a foreword by Carmen Sandiego’s voice actress, Gina Rodriguez), Carmen shares her own backstory for the first time ever. Is she a villain or just a misunderstood heroine? It’s time to find out...who in the world is Carmen Sandiego.
by Mary Tillworth
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Preschool – 2
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0385374439
Dora and Boots are reading a book about fairytales when they hear voices calling “Help! Help us!” and “¡Ayúdennos!” from the gate to Fairytale Land. Realizing their fairytale friends need help, they race through the gate and find out that Fairytale Land will lose all of its magic unless they can get water from Sparkling Lake in time to save the magic rainbow vine from drying out. Like Carmen Sandiego, Dora is also getting a reboot with a live action movie titled “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” where she is now a teenage explorer played by Isabela Moner.
adapted by Christine Ricci
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Preschool – 2
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN-13: 978-1416915591
Based on the TV series, “Go, Diego, Go!” comes a story about Dora the Explorer’s cousin Diego. When Dora visits Diego at his Animal Rescue Centre, she’s soon helping her cousin save a wolf pup from danger. And she’s not alone. Diego’s friends help out as well as he swings into action to assist the lost pup. But even with Dora and his friends helping him, can Diego rescue the little wolf pup? Like Dora, Diego is also being rebooted in the live action movie “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” where he’s a teenager played by Jeffrey Wahlberg.
by Ángeles Donoso Macaya
Publisher: University of Florida Press
ISBN-13: 978-1683401117
After Augusto Pinochet rose to power in Chile in 1973, his government abducted, abused and executed thousands of his political opponents. “THE INSUBORDINATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY” is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations and independent media used photography to expose and protest the crimes of Pinochet’s authoritarian regime. In a culture saturated by disinformation and cover-ups and restricted by repression and censorship, photography became an essential tool to bring the truth to light. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and other archival material, this book reflects on the integral role of images in public memory and issues of reparation and justice.
by María C. Gaztambide
Publisher: University of Florida Press
ISBN-13: 978-1683400707
The work of the 1960s Caracas-based art collective El Techo de la Ballena (The Roof of the Whale) was called subversive and seen as a threat to Venezuela’s national image as an emerging industrial power. This volume details the historical and social contexts that shaped the collective, exploring how it used the visual arts to expose the depths of injustice hidden beneath the façade of Venezuela’s rapid modernization. Today, as Venezuela undergoes another dramatic series of sociopolitical changes, El Techo de la Ballena serves as a reminder of the power of art in resisting the status quo and effecting change.
by Juan G. Ramos
Publisher: University of Florida Press
ISBN-13: 978-1683400240
Bringing Latin American popular art out of the margins and into the center of serious scholarship, this informative book rethinks the cultural canon, as well as recovers previously undervalued cultural forms as art. Juan Ramos uses “decolonial aesthetics,” a theory that frees the idea of art from Eurocentric forms of expression and philosophies of the beautiful, to examine the long decade of the 1960s in Latin America—a time of cultural production that has not been studied extensively from a decolonial perspective. Ramos looks at examples of “antipoetry,” unconventional verse that challenges canonical poets and often addresses urgent social concerns.
edited by Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw
Publisher: University of Florida Press
ISBN-13: 978-1683400233
In the media, migrants are often portrayed as criminals; they are frequently dehumanized, marginalized and unable to share their experiences. “TELLING MIGRANT STORIES” explores how contemporary documentary film gives voice to Latin American immigrants whose stories would not otherwise be heard. The essays in the first part of the volume consider the documentary as a medium for Latin American immigrants to share their thoughts and experiences on migration, border crossings, displacement and identity. The second part of the volume features transcribed interviews with documentary filmmakers, which include Luis Argueta, Jenny Alexander, Tin Dirdamal, Heidi Hassan and María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa.
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