san antonio

"During the Great Depression, Ernestine Guerrero's family didn't have much. The true story of a resourceful Mexican American teen who made a remarkable gift to thank President Roosevelt for the food aid that helped them survive!"--.

Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native of Jerusalem--more than anything Yasmeen just wants to be American but it seems like she can not escape the ethnic tensions that swirl around her.

Text and photographs look at some of the different players who have played on the San Antonio Spurs.

Christina, Grant, Juan, and Rose find themselves in big trouble while trying to solve a mystery at the Alamo that their mystery book-writing grandmother says does not exist.

A biography of the Mexican-American mayor of San Antonio, Texas, including a chapter in which the mayor offers advice to young people who want to make the most of their education and future careers.

A biography of the first Mexican American mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

A biography of the young Mexican American mayor of San Antonio who was considered as a candidate for Vice-President of the United States in 1984.

Presents a collection of over one hundred thirty archival and newer photographs and illustrations describing five Spanish missions of San Antonio, and includes archeological data and discoveries.

Photographs and text introduce the San Antonio Spurs, and briefly describes the history of the professional basketball team, key players and personalities, victories and losses, their fans, and other topics.

Naturalist Edmund McGowan, and widowed innkeeper Mary Mott find themselves drawn to each other as they travel together in pursuit of Mary's sixteen-year-old son Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love has led him to war.