puerto rico

Examines the life and career of Roberto Clemente, a baseball player from Puerto Rico who overcame racism and other challenges to become a hero to the Spanish-speaking world, and the first Latin American player to be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame.

Drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Le?n, Ana Cubillas becomes involved with enamored twin brothers Ram?n and Inocente before convincing them to claim a sugar plantation they have inherited.

This myth explains the origin of the sea, the forest, and the island now called Puerto Rico.

Presents a biography of major league baseball player Roberto Clemente and describes his impoverished childhood in Puerto Rico, love for baseball, and entrance into professional sports in the U.S. where he played for both the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburg Pirates.

When the youngest son succeeds in capturing the dazzling seven-color horse that has been trampling his father's fields, the horse bargains for his freedom by granting the young man three favors.

A collection of four folktales about Juan Bobo and his mother in which the boy learns about work and manners.

Tells the life story of baseball star Roberto Clemente, describing his childhood in Puerto Rico, minor and major league careers, tragic death, and induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Forced to stay with her mother in Puerto Rico for weeks after her grandmother's funeral, half-Jewish Emily, who has just graduated from a Westchester, New York, high school, does not find it easy to connect with her Puerto Rican heritage and relatives she had never met.

Surveys the history of the island nation of Puerto Rico, from its colonization by Spain through its time under American control to debate over statehood and independence.

Traces the personal life and baseball career of the Puerto Rican baseball superstar, from his childhood love of the game through his professional career and untimely death to his election to the Hall of Fame in 1973.