What Is Saudade?
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Rosie stepped away from her mother’s embrace. She could tell by her mother’s eyes that she had been crying.
“Maé,” Rosie asked, “why are you sad?”
Rosie’s mother wiped a tear from her cheek and smiled at her daughter.
“I was on the phone with your grandmother, Avózinha,” her mother explained. “It’s just saudade.”
“What does that mean, Maé?” Rosie asked.
“Sometimes I miss my island and that makes me feel sad,” Rosie’s mom said.
Follow Rosie on her journey to her mother’s homeland in the Azores where she learns about the history and rich culture of her Portuguese ancestry and the true meaning of “saudade.”
Jenny unexpectedly finds something in her mother’s closet, a witch’s hat! Jenny is left confused and frightened by this discovery. Is her mother a witch?
Read how Jenny’s imagination soars out the window in this comical and enduring story between a mother and her young daughter.
The Hat In The Closet
Nina And I
"Lisa!" Miss Maxwell shouts.
"Stop kicking Nina's chair this instant!"
I stop kicking and apologize, but it's not fair! It makes me angry when I get in trouble. Why can't Nina understand that all I want is to be her friend?
Sometimes it's hard to make friends at school. So how can Lisa find a way to get Nina's attention without coming across as a bully? Nina and I is an uplifting story of how two children learn how their unique differences make a friendship fun and exciting.
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