Books for Children and Young Adults in Spanish 2021

Jim Gigliotti ¿Quién fue la Madre Teresa? Who Was Mother Teresa? ILLUSTRATIONS David Groff GR P Humanitarians / Diseases, Illnesses, and Injuries / Poverty 9781631134258 5½" x 7½" / 112 pp $10.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / Biography / History Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She joined a religious order and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa walked the streets of Calcutta tending to the needs of the destitute. Her charity work expanded internationally, and her name remains synonymous with compassion and devotion to the poor. Dana Meachen Rau ¿Quién fue María Antonieta? ILLUSTRATIONS John O’Brien GR R French Revolution / Europe / Politics and Government 9781631134234 5½" x 7½" / 112 pp $10.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / Biography / History Marie Antoinette was born into royalty in 1755 and married the future king of France at age fifteen. She enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of masquerade balls, sky-high wigs, and extravagant food. The poor people of France blamed her for their poverty. Her spending helped incite the French Revolution. In 1793, she literally lost her head because of it. Whether she was blameless or guilty is debatable, but Marie Antoinette remains woven into the fabric of history and popular culture. Megan Stine ¿Quién fue Marie Curie? Who Was Marie Curie? ILLUSTRATIONS Ted Hammond GR R Scientists / Radioactivity / History of Science 9781631134241 5½" x 7½"/ 112 pp $10.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / Biography / History Born in Poland in 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. They discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. Marie won another Nobel in 1911. She died in 1934, a victim of years of exposure to radiation. Who Was Marie Antoinette? HISPANIC CULTURE AND OTHER CULTURES AUTHENTIC TITLE AWARD-WINNER 211