Rio Grande stories

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While preparing a book which highlights the people and traditions of the diverse culture found in Albuquerque, a group of seventh-graders discover interesting things about their city and families.

White lilacs

By Carolyn Meyer, Rob Lewis

In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to...

A voice from Japan

By Carolyn Meyer

The author relates her visit to Japan where she interviewed adults and children and recorded their feelings about life in a country experiencing drastic changes in lifestyle.

A Voice from Japan

By Carolyn Meyer

Voices of Northern Ireland

By Carolyn Meyer

The author relates her visit to Northern Ireland where she interviewed Protestants and Catholics and recorded their feelings growing up in a country torn apart by religious and political conflict.

Voices of Northern Ireland

By Carolyn Meyer

Voices of South Africa

By Carolyn Meyer

The author recounts her visit to South Africa where she interviewed numerous young people, both black and white, to find out what growing up is like in a country torn apart by racial strife.

Voices of South Africa

By Carolyn Meyer

Where the broken heart still beats

By Carolyn Meyer

Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only fr...

Jubilee journey

By Carolyn Meyer

Emily Rose has always felt comfortable growing up in Connecticut with her African American mother and her "French American" father, but when they spend some time with her great-grandmother in Texas...