Perla and the pirate
With help from their new "pirate" neighbor, Perla uses her two superpowers--making people love her and roaring like a lion--to help find her human, Nico, after he gets lost walking home from school.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Philomel,
2025.
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| Summary: | With help from their new "pirate" neighbor, Perla uses her two superpowers--making people love her and roaring like a lion--to help find her human, Nico, after he gets lost walking home from school. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Audience: | Ages Ages 4-8 Grades K-1 |
| ISBN: | 9780593623626 0593623622 |
| Author Notes: | While living in Venezuela, Allende began writing her novels, many of them exploring the close family bonds between women. Her first novel, The House of the Spirits, has been translated into 27 languages, and was later made into a film. She then wrote Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and The Stories of Eva Luna, all set in Latin America. The Infinite Plan was her first novel to take place in the United States. She explores the issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees in her novel, In The Midst of Winter. In Paula, Allende wrote her memoirs in connection with her daughter's illness and death. She delved into the erotic connections between food and love in Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses. In addition to writing books, Allende has worked as a TV interviewer, magazine writer, school administrator, and a secretary at a U.N. office in Chile. She received the 1996 Harold Washington Literacy Award. She lives in California. Her title Maya's Notebook made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) |
