Multicultural Reading : Central America

Sehome High School Library

9/22/2005

327.730 Dickey

Dickey, Christopher. With the Contras : a reporter in the wilds

of Nicaragua. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1985. The

first North American newspaperman to go into the Nicaraguan

mountains with the Contras and come out alive recounts his

experiences.

327.7307 Nicaragua

Nicaragua under siege. San Francisco : Synthesis Publications,

c1984. Reagan's escalating war: from economic strangulation

to CIA attack. Nicaragua's search for peace. Defending the

revolution. Christians and the revolutionary state.

Democracy in the new Nicaragua. Perspectives on revolution,

intervention, and negotiations.

398.2 Finger

Finger, Charles J. Tales from silver lands. New York :

Doubleday & Company, 1924. Folklore and stories from the

Latin American countries of Mexico, Brazil, Honduras,

Guiana, Chile, the Andes, etc.

868 Colford

Colford, William Edward, 1908- ed. and tr. Classic tales from

Spanish America. Great Neck, N.Y., : Barron's Educational

Series, [c1962]. The Cub. The Glass of milk, by Manuel

Rojas.--Like sisters, by Eduardo Barrios.--The abyss, by

Baldomero Lillo.--Indian justice, by Ricardo Jaimes

Freyre.--The magistrate's ears. Margarita's nightgown, by

Ricardo Palma.--Father's Day, by Hector Velarde.--Yzur, by

Leopoldo Lugones.--The owl, by Alberto Gerchunoff.--The

horse-breaker, by Javier de Viana.--The contract workers, by

Horacia Quiroga.--The voice, by Arturo Uslar Pietri.--The

death of the Empress of China, by Ruben Dario.--One hope, by

Amado Nervo.--A letter to God, by Gregorio Lopez y

Fuentes.--Natural causes, by Rafael Bernal.--The valley, by

Gonzalo Mazas Garbayo.--Against regulations, by Enrique

Serpa.--The pirate's treasure, by Cayetano Coll y

Toste.--Santo Clo comes to La Cuchilla, by Abelardo Diaz

Alfaro.

917.04 Theroux

Theroux, Paul. The old Patagonian express : by train through the

Americas. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Theroux travels

through Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, the Andean

high plains of Peru and the Argentine pampas, encountering

extraordinary, eccentric, boorish and exotic people.

917.285 Everett

Everett, Melissa. Bearing witness, building bridges : interviews

with North Americans living & working in Nicaragua.

Philadelphia, Pa. : New Society Publishers, c1986.

917.285 Ridenour

Ridenour, Ron. Yankee Sandinistas : interviews with North

Americans living & working in the new Nicaragua.

Willimantic, CT : New York, NY : Curbstone Press ;

Distributed by the Talman Co., c1986.

972.84 Clements

Clements, Charles. Witness to war : an American doctor in El

Salvador. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, c1984. A

Quaker doctor with military background tells of his work in

rebel held territory in El Salvador.

972.85 Gelman

Gelman, Rita Golden. Inside Nicaragua : young people's dreams

and fears. New York : F. Watts, 1988. Arrival -- Managua

-- The Neighborhoods -- The Rivera Family -- Second arrival

-- Making a revolution -- Toward a united front -- The

Literacy crusade -- Problems -- Families in the war zone --

The Army -- Another kind of war -- A study in contrasts --

The question again. The author describes her experiences

traveling through Nicaragua and the effects of the present

conflict on the lives of the young people of this troubled

country.

972.85 Nicaragua

Nicaragua, unfinished revolution : the new Nicaragua reader. 1st

Grove Press ed. New York : Grove Press, c1986. The debate

-- The terms -- Threat to its neighbors? -- A totalitarian

state? -- Historical setting: Nicaragua and the U.S. --

Building the revolution -- Since the Sandinistas:

developments since 1979 -- The War: The Contra War -- The

Escalation -- Legal, diplomatic, and economic facets of the

war -- Nicaragua today: political power -- Accomplishments

of the revolution -- Problems and conflicts. In 1979, the

Sandinistas overthrew the dictator Somoza and announced

plans for social and economic reform. Within two years the

small Central American country became the target of a masive

U.S. effort to topple the Sandinista-led government. Why has

the U.S. poured millions of dollars into the most aggressive

military action undertaken in Central America in recent

history.

F Moeri

Moeri, Louise. The forty-third war. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,

1989. Twelve-year-old Uno is conscripted into the army of a

revolutionary force in a Central American country that is

fighting for its freedom.

F O'Dell

O'Dell, Scott, 1903-. The amethyst ring. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, 1983. Spanish seminarian Julián Escobar, known to

the Mayas as Lord Kukulcán and worshipped as a god,

witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with

the coming of Cortés and Pizarro.

F Temple

Temple, Frances. Grab hands and run. New York : Orchard Books,

c1993. After his father disappears, Felipe, his mother, and

his younger sister set out on a difficult and dangerous

journey, trying to make their way from El Salvador to

Canada.