Beatriz Vidal

Maria's family is almost forced to leave their farm on the new island colony, until a mysterious lady appears in Maria's dream.

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.

As a boy, José Martí was inspired by the natural world. He found freedom in the river that rushed to the sea and peace in the palmas reales that swayed in the wind. Freedom, he believed, was the inherent right of all men and women. But his home island of Cuba was colonized by Spain, and some of the people were enslaved by rich landowners. Enraged, Martí took up his pen and fought against this oppression through his writings. By age seventeen, he...