audience at the Youth-Senior Mentoring Project workshop quietly listened while 71-year-old, white haired volunteer Annie Stephens talked about her joyful experience as a senior working with youth. She described how enthusiastic young people were to meet seniors, and how they worked together on projects like making Christmas cookies or putting together a scrapbook. “It’s great when we have generations coming …
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Chanting, dancing, singing, burning sage and ‘doing their little thing’ on the catwalk. That’s how true Mission locals like Encantada Gallery owner, Mia Gonzalez, and her crew of fashionistas throw down. Dia de Los Muertos might look a little like Halloween, but it’s much much deeper…and in this case, a whole lot sexier too. NOVEMBER …
BUY What happens when reality overcomes fiction? Then you have a story like ALMA DE LOBO. This novella is the true story of Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja. His is the only documented case in Spain of a feral child. SUMMARY: At the age of seven, Marcos was sold by his father to work as a shepherd in a …
BUY EL PEQUEÑO ÁNGEL DE COLOMBIA is the extraordinary true story of Albeiro Vargas, a Colombian boy famous for his magnificent humanitarian work. SUMMARY: Albeiro is only six when he starts playing and taking care of his ill grandfather. After his death, Albeiro befriends some elderly neighbors in Ciudad Norte, an impoverished area of Bucaramanga, Colombia, where he lives. …
BUY SOÑADORES gives a face to the millions of children that live as undocumented immigrants and brings to light the challenges they face to live a normal life in the United States. This story is ideal for Spanish Level 3 Learners. The story is written in conversational Spanish, using simple grammatical structures in various forms of …
BUY SUMMARY After experiencing the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Aleja, a Mexican-American teen, plans to throw a big Día de los Muertos party at her home in California. The tricky thing is that her best friend plans to throw a big Halloween party on the same day. Aleja narrates this light-hearted story mostly in the present tense and …
BUY This compelling novella, told from a dog’s point of view, is based on the true events that turned Arthur, an Ecuadorian stray dog, into a global celebrity. SUMMARY Arthur’s journey began when he attached himself to the captain of an extreme sports team who was competing in the 2014 Adventure Racing World Championship. It …
Point Molate served as a U.S. Navy fuel station on the shoreline of Richmond between 1942 and 1995. The area was then entrusted to the city of Richmond, which in 2004 entered into an agreement with the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians, in association with developer Upstream LCC, to develop 266 acres of Point Molate …
