central america

Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings. Includes glossary and author's note.

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the mythology of Native Americans in North, Central, and South America that includes entries on more than nine hundred characters and themes such as life, afterlife, creation, monsters, and sacred landscapes, with over five hundred color photographs, paintings, and drawings.

As a thank-you from Merlin and Morgan, Jack and Annie are sent on what should be a vacation at a luxurious resort in Cozumel, Mexico, but is, by mistake, an adventure with ancient Mayans, instead.

When his father is reported murdered in Mexico, supposedly by the husband of his lover, thirteen-year-old Josh refuses to believe it and sets out to get the true story, which he believes involves UFOs and alien abduction.

Presents 100 facts about pyramids. Includes photographs, artwork, puzzles, quizzes, and activities.

Traces the subjugation of the Maya population in Guatemala from the Conquest to the present.

Provides an overview of the fashion and dress, diet, hygiene, medicine, and other cultural aspects of ancient Mesoamerica, including some gross-out facts.

Chronicles the journey of American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood, friends and fellow explorers, to Central America in 1839, chasing rumors of strange stone ruins in the then-unmapped jungles, and how they discovered the ancient Maya civilization.

A collection of one hundred facts about ancient pyramids.