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W.S. Merwin

2004
Presents twenty-three works of criticism on five poems by twentieth-century American writer W. S. Merwin, and provides a Merwin biography, primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of themes and ideas.

Summer doorways

a memoir
2005
Poet W.S. Merwin chronicles his life in Europe in the years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952.

Elegy on the death of C?sar Ch?vez

2000
A poem eulogizing the Mexican American labor activist Cesar Chavez and his work helping organize migrant farm workers.

Desert solitaire

a season in the wilderness
1990
Author's account of his three seasons as a park ranger in Southeastern Utah.

Althea Gibson

1989
Follows the life of the first black woman to win the tennis competition at Wimbledon.

"Gizelle, save the children!"

1980
The story of how a 16-year-old girl and her three younger sisters fought to stay together and survive the Holocaust.

C?sar Ch?vez

2006
Presents a short biography of activist Cesar Chavez, who helped to form the National Farm Workers Association designed to protect the rights of all farm workers.

Learning about justice from the life of C?sar Ch?vez

1996
Examines the life of C?sar Ch?vez, the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.

Fidel Castro

1986
A biography of the man who became dictator of Cuba in 1959 after a successful revolution against Batista's military dictatorship and reorganized the country into a Communist state.

C?sar

s?, se puede! = Yes, we can!
2004
Tells the life story of C?sar Ch?vez, whose efforts as a labor leader in the mid-twentieth century brought better working conditions to migrant farmworkers in the U.S.

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