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Cargando... Amor a la carrera / Mellizas de Sweet Valleypor Francine Pascal (Creator), Francine Pascal, Kate William (Autor)
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Every kid knows the story of 1773’s Boston Tea Party, in which colonists ambushed three British ships and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. But do you know the story of the New Jersey Tea Party (December 1773)? How about the Annapolis Tea Party (October 1774) or the Charleston Tea Party (November 1774)? Revolutionary America was full of these spirited protests-andTen Tea Partiesis the first book to chronicle all of them. Author and historian Joseph Cummins begins with the history of the East India Company (the biggest global corporation of the 18th century) and its staggering financial losses during the Boston Tea Party (more than $1 million worth of tea in today’s money). From there we travel to Philadelphia, where 8,000 colonists gathered on Christmas Day threatening to tar and feather the captain of a ship. Then we set sail for New York City, North Carolina, Maine, and other unexpected destinations. This gifty volume of popular history concludes with a discussion of how Americans have returned again and again to the tea party as a symbol of political protest. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Roger Barrett is scruffy and totally in love with Lila Fowler. I mean, who could blame him? She's the best brunette Queen Bee around. The trouble is, Lila has zero time for him—that is, until he races right into her heart by becoming the favourite to win the Bart: the prestigious Sweet Valley footrace that awards a scholarship to college. Suddenly, Roger's super famous and, just as suddenly, Lila decides he's actually rather cute after all. The only problem is, he's about as shy as he is good at running, which means he spends most of the book running from his beloved Lila's advances.
If you did read the last book, you'll also remember that Roger Barrett is a (gasp!) janitor at Ned Wakefield's office building. Rich girl Lila is about as tolerant of poor people as she is of last season's fashions. So nothing good is likely to come of Jess deciding that she's going to get her legal career started early by working at her father's office after school, given that she's sworn off boys completely after the Bill Chase incident. The inevitable happens and Jess hooks up with a boy (operative word: boy) from one of the other offices... and runs into Roger in his full janitor regalia.
Jess and Lila are the original frenemies, so this bit of information is delicious to Jess. Liz somehow persuades Jess to keep it to herself, though—at least for a while.
This book's DeeDee is Olivia Davidson, the arts editor for the Oracle, who is known for her truly ~individual~ (read: awful) fashion sense. She's Roger's best friend and madly in love with him. With Lila after him now, though, does she have any chance at all?
If you read Heart Breaker, you can probably answer that yourself.
This has to be a good SVH instalment because it's full of Lila, with plenty of Jess as well and not a whole lot of Elizabeth. Oh, and Lila's poem about Roger is pure gold.
Moral of the Story? Thrift store threads trump Gaultier glamour.
[re-read: previously read around four times]