Follows host Ian Wright as he attends an authentic Hula ceremony, explores a silver mine, rides the road of death, visits the highest city in the world, and has other adventures while traveling in Bolivia.
Friends Dewi, Kartika, and Kinara, who live in a remote Indonesian village, hear metal music from the rock band Metallica on YouTube and feel a freedom they've never before experienced. With the help of their teacher, they decide to start a rock band in secret, fearing what their parents will say. When the girls become good enough, they earn the recognition of a local music producer and find the courage to tell their parents of their musical passion.
Draws on the manuscripts, letters, logbooks, and private papers of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett to relate the experiences of the explorer in the Amazon in search of the Lost City of Z.
"Although they are told that wrestling is for boys, preteen girls Noelia and Wara put on traditional costumes of the Aymara women of Bolivia and head to the fighting ring as Cholitas (or luchadoras). During the week they train physically and develop their fighting styles, and although they realize they can't wrestle forever, they both will use the lessons they've learned in the ring to follow their other dreams"--OCLC.
Explores the geography, history, government, economy, environment, and culture of Bolivia. Also discusses the country's religions, language, art, and food. Includes fact boxes, color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
After a mining accident kills her father and leaves her brother missing, twelve-year-old Ana puts her dreams on hold and goes into the mine to help her family survive in their impoverished Bolivian silver mining community.
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
After a mining accident kills her father and leaves her brother missing, twelve-year-old Ana puts her dreams on hold and goes into the mine to help her family survive in their impoverished Bolivian silver mining community.
