Anika Fajardo – författare

You are the mighty Greek hero Hercules. As a half-god, you are stronger than mere humans. You''ve faced many challenges. But now you face your most difficult test yet. The goddess Hera has given you a task worthy of a god - complete the dangerous 12 labours and live forever. Can you survive and win your immortality?

Just like the rest of the body, the brain needs exercise. When homework is designed well, it helps students formnew connections in their brains. Find out more in Homework, a title in the Debating the Issues series. Each title in the series features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging educational activity. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.

A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means  He loved Colombia too much to leave it. The explanation from her Minnesotan mother was enough to satisfy a child’s curiosity about her missing father. But at twenty-one, Anika Fajardo wanted more. She wanted to know her father better and to know what kind of country could have such a hold on him. And so, in 1995, Fajardo boarded a plane and flew to Colombia to discover a birthplace that was foreign to her and a father who was a stranger. There she learns that sometimes, no matter how many pieces you find, fitting together a family history isn’t easy.With her tentative entry into her father’s world, Fajardo steps on a path that will take her in surprising directions, toward unsuspected secrets about her family and herself. Set against the changing backdrops of Colombia and the American Midwest, her journey carries her back to the 1970s and the beginnings of her parents’ broken marriage, and forward to the present day, where the magic and reality of love and heartache-and her own experience as a parent-await her. The way is strewn with obstacles, physical and metaphysical-from the perils encountered on a mountain road in Colombia to the death of a loved one to the birth of her own child-but the toughest to negotiate are the shifting place of memory and truth while coming to understand her place in her family and in the world.Vivid and heartfelt in the telling, Fajardo’s story is powerfully compelling in its bridging of time and place and in its moving depiction of self-transformation. Family, she comes to find, is where you find it and what you make of it.

A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means  He loved Colombia too much to leave it. The explanation from her Minnesotan mother was enough to satisfy a child’s curiosity about her missing father. But at twenty-one, Anika Fajardo wanted more. She wanted to know her father better and to know what kind of country could have such a hold on him. And so, in 1995, Fajardo boarded a plane and flew to Colombia to discover a birthplace that was foreign to her and a father who was a stranger. There she learns that sometimes, no matter how many pieces you find, fitting together a family history isn’t easy.With her tentative entry into her father’s world, Fajardo steps on a path that will take her in surprising directions, toward unsuspected secrets about her family and herself. Set against the changing backdrops of Colombia and the American Midwest, her journey carries her back to the 1970s and the beginnings of her parents’ broken marriage, and forward to the present day, where the magic and reality of love and heartache-and her own experience as a parent-await her. The way is strewn with obstacles, physical and metaphysical-from the perils encountered on a mountain road in Colombia to the death of a loved one to the birth of her own child-but the toughest to negotiate are the shifting place of memory and truth while coming to understand her place in her family and in the world.Vivid and heartfelt in the telling, Fajardo’s story is powerfully compelling in its bridging of time and place and in its moving depiction of self-transformation. Family, she comes to find, is where you find it and what you make of it.

A whimsical, “honest and heartfelt” (Booklist) generational story of family and identity where hats turn into leeches, ghosts blow kisses from lemon trees, and the things you find at the end of your fishing line might not be a fish at all.Half-Colombian Eddie Aguado has never really felt Colombian. Especially after Papa died. And since Mama keeps her memories of Papa locked up where Eddie can’t get to them, he only has Papa’s third-place fishing tournament medal to remember him by. He’ll have to figure out how to be more Colombian on his own. As if by magic, the perfect opportunity arises. Eddie—who’s never left Minnesota—is invited to spend the summer in Colombia with his older half-brother. But as his adventure unfolds, he feels more and more like a fish out of water. Figuring out how to be a true colombiano might be more difficult than he thought.

“A romp of a read!” —Rebecca Balcárcel, Pura Belpré Honor–winning author of The Other Half of Happy When new classmates Mattie and Mercedes meet and realize they have the same Colombian dad, the two team up in a Parent Trap–inspired misadventure to meet him for the first time in this sharp and poignant middle grade novel about the bonds that make a family.Mattie Gomez feels directionless after being uprooted from her beloved Minnesota and forced to move in with her new stepfamily in California. So when she meets a girl at her new middle school who looks exactly like her, she’s not sure what to make of it. But her doppelganger, the popular Mercedes Miller, doesn’t like it one bit. Mercedes is used to getting what she wants, when she wants; Mattie would rather be invisible and blend into the background. Mercedes lives in a big empty house with her nanny; Mattie’s new home is packed-to-the-gills, twenty-four/seven chaos. Mercedes has a short fuse; Mattie is a planner. Though they may look alike, the two of them couldn’t be more different. Soon enough, however, Mattie and Mercedes learn that they have at least one thing in common: a dad from Colombia that neither of them has ever met. Determined to meet the father they’ve never known, these polar opposites suddenly have to work together to fake sleepovers, evade their friends, and plot daring escapes from school field trips in an effort to track down him down. If only they could stop bickering long enough to get the show on the road.

Provides a thorough overview of the major pros and cons of homework. Readable text, interesting sidebars, and illuminating infographics invite readers to jump in and join the debate.

Provides a thorough overview of the major pros and cons of homework. Readable text, interesting sidebars, and illuminating infographics invite readers to jump in and join the debate.

GOLD MEDAL in Best Popular FictionInternational Latino Book Awards For fans of Rebecca Serle and Elizabeth Acevedo, a magically insightful novel about a womans journey to discover her roots and what it means to carry our ancestors with us.Dolores Moores dead relatives refuse to stay quiet. They trail after her like a Greek chorus with no respect for personal boundaries, filling her crumbling Victorian with unsolicited advice, family gossip, and increasingly urgent opinions about her return to Colombiathe birthplace she barely remembers. Dorrie would rather stay in Minneapolis, where the problems are manageable: an ex she hasnt forgotten, a cartography career thats evaporated overnight, a creaky inherited house, and two needy orange cats. But when a cryptic hand-drawn map surfaces and an old flame offers to watch the house, the voices leave her no choice. So begins a journey to Colombia guided by photographs of her mother, half-remembered stories about her father, and a little bit of magic as Dorrie searches for the truth about where she came fromand whats been calling her to her rightful place.

GOLD MEDAL in Best Popular FictionInternational Latino Book Awards For fans of Rebecca Serle and Elizabeth Acevedo, a magically insightful novel about a womans journey to discover her roots and what it means to carry our ancestors with us.Dolores Moores dead relatives refuse to stay quiet. They trail after her like a Greek chorus with no respect for personal boundaries, filling her crumbling Victorian with unsolicited advice, family gossip, and increasingly urgent opinions about her return to Colombiathe birthplace she barely remembers. Dorrie would rather stay in Minneapolis, where the problems are manageable: an ex she hasnt forgotten, a cartography career thats evaporated overnight, a creaky inherited house, and two needy orange cats. But when a cryptic hand-drawn map surfaces and an old flame offers to watch the house, the voices leave her no choice. So begins a journey to Colombia guided by photographs of her mother, half-remembered stories about her father, and a little bit of magic as Dorrie searches for the truth about where she came fromand whats been calling her to her rightful place.

Fremde, die zu Schwestern werden: Warmherzig, charmant und witzig!Ein Neuanfang ist nie einfach, und ans andere Ende des Landes zu ziehen und alles zurückzulassen, was man kennt, erst recht nicht. Mattie Gomez ist nicht gerade begeistert darüber, ab jetzt zusammen mit ihrer neuen Patchworkfamilie in Kalifornien zu wohnen. Doch dann lernt sie Mercedes Miller kennen, die ihre Welt ganz schön auf den Kopf stellt. Dieses fremde Mädchen sieht ihr unglaublich ähnlich! Charakterlich könnten die beiden zwar nicht unterschiedlicher sein, doch schon bald stellen Mattie und Mercedes fest, dass sie zumindest eines gemeinsam haben: einen Vater aus Kolumbien, den keine von ihnen je kennengelernt hat. Um ihn zu finden, müssen sie sich zusammenschließen, Übernachtungen vortäuschen, ihren Freunden aus dem Weg gehen und waghalsige Fluchten von Schulausflügen planen.Wenn sie nur lange genug aufhören könnten, sich zu zanken...