Laura Resau: 9 books

Book cover of The Queen of Water
by Laura Resau, Maria Virginia Farinango
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011

An ALA Amelia Bloomer Selection An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book Born in an Andean village in Ecuador, Virginia lives with her large family in a small, earthen-walled dwelling. In her village of indígenas, it is not uncommon to work in the fields all day, even as a child, or...
Book cover of Tree of Dreams
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019

Dear Coco and Leo, I miss you! We all miss you! The whole forest misses you! I hear their thanks and wishes in my dreams. I hope you do, too. Prepare for a journey into a world filled with what so many crave -- the sweet savoring of a chocolate drop. A drop that can melt even the most troubled...
Book cover of Red Glass
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007

With a dazzling and thoughtful voice, this critically acclaimed novel deals directly with the challenges and dangers of immigration, exploring the ties that bind us together in an age when issues threaten to divide us. One night Sophie and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, a...
Book cover of Star in the Forest
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010

Zitlally's family is undocumented, and her father has just been arrested for speeding and deported back to Mexico. As her family waits for him to return—they’ve paid a coyote to guide him back across the border—they receive news that he and the coyote’s other charges have been kidnapped and...
Book cover of What the Moon Saw
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008

An intimate, award winning story of immigrants and their families, the borders they cross, and the ties that bind us all together. Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna's name means "clear moon" in Spanish. But lately, her life has felt anything but clear. A letter has arrived from her grandparents...
Book cover of The Indigo Notebook
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

An exciting new series from the acclaimed author of Red Glass. Zeeta's life with her free-spirited mother, Layla, is anything but normal. Every year Layla picks another country she wants to live in. This summer they’re in Ecuador, and Zeeta is determined to convince her mother to settle down....
Book cover of The Lightning Queen
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

Nothing exciting happens on the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico in the 1950s. There's no electricity, no plumbing, no cars, just day after day of pasturing goats. And now, without his sister and mother, eleven-year-old Teo's life feels even more barren. And then one day, the mysterious...
Book cover of The Ruby Notebook
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010

Sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her flighty English-teaching mom, Layla, have traveled the world together, settling in a different country every year, making a whole new set of friends and adopting new customs. This year, they’ve chosen to live in Aix-en-Provence, France, an enchanting city full of fountains,...
Book cover of The Jade Notebook
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

Down-to-earth Zeeta and her flighty mom, Layla, have spent years traveling the globe and soaking up everything each new culture has to offer. Now they've settled in the beachside town of Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love, Wendell, has an internship photographing rare sea turtles. At first glance,...
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