Calling the Doves / El Canto de Las Palomas
Calling the Doves / El Canto de Las Palomas
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Calling the Doves / El Canto de Las Palomas

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7 - 10
Reading age
32
Page count
37
Words per page
910L
Lexile measure
Apr 1, 2014
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Bilingual English/Spanish. Calling the Doves is Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s story of his migrant farmworker childhood. Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera’s story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains. He remembers his mother’s songs and poetry, and his father’s stories and his calling the doves. For Juan Felipe, the farmworker road was also the beginning of his personal road to becoming a writer.

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Americaspanishhard workCaliforniarural livingchildhoodagricultureauthorssocial life and customsmigrant labor

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780892391660
    Publication Date
    April 1, 2014
    Publisher
    Children's Book Press (CA)
    Page Count
    32
    Words Per Page
    37
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    7 - 10 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    94045901
    WorldCat Number (OCLC)
    31868014
    Lexile® Level
    910L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~V
    ATOS® Book Level
    4.5
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    0.5
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    18328
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    LG

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