In Puppy Love, a female dog abandons three scrawny, little puppies, and two little boys find them. One of the boys feels sorry for them, so he takes them to his house. There are three pets living with the family already, so the father plans to put the puppies up for adoption as soon as they regain their healthy appearance. His plans go awry as his three little daughters refuse to give them up. Soon, the entire family falls under the spell of the puppies, and the father has a tougher time deciding whether to keep them or to put them up for adoption as planned. Will the puppies stay with the family? Or will they be adopted? Read the story and find out.
In A Boy Becomes a Man, an unfortunate event, the loss of his father, sets a boy’s life into hardship. At the age of ten he has to quit school to start working as a goat herder. He, occasionally, trades jobs with his friend, Manuel, who is the pig herder. His many hair-raising experiences lead him to mature and grow beyond his age. A year later, he has to quit his job and say good-bye to his boss and to his friend because his family has to move to San Antonio, from where they plan to emigrate to the United States.
Short Stories, Childhood Anecdotes and Simple Poems for Everyone contains four stories. In one, a little girl is traumatized by two auto accidents that claimed the lives of all her relatives. At the Los Nios Receiving Home, she attends school, and she is bullied. She becomes rebellious at school and at her foster homes, so she is returned to Los Nios. Finally, a school friend invites her to live with her family and her existence becomes more pleasant. She eventually graduates from college with a teaching credential and soon marries her prince charming. Another story deals with a hate-love feud between classmates that ends up in matrimony. In the next two stories, children and adults are taught that heeding advice can help avoid unpleasant consequences. Finally, the anecdotes and the poems listed are mainly personal experiences expressed in prose or in simple rhyme for everyone to fully understand and enjoy.
In Puppy Love, a female dog abandons three scrawny, little puppies, and two little boys find them. One of the boys feels sorry for them, so he takes them to his house. There are three pets living with the family already, so the father plans to put the puppies up for adoption as soon as they regain their healthy appearance. His plans go awry as his three little daughters refuse to give them up. Soon, the entire family falls under the spell of the puppies, and the father has a tougher time deciding whether to keep them or to put them up for adoption as planned. Will the puppies stay with the family? Or will they be adopted? Read the story and find out.
A cat named Ginger preys upon two parakeets, whose cage sits atop a dresser, simply out of jealousy. She thinks the family is paying more attention to them than to her. Her chance to get even with the birds comes when she jumps on a chair leaning on the dresser, and takes a swipe at their cage, sending it crashing thunderously to the floor. The noise brings Mrs. Guzmn, who threatens Ginger with sending her to the Animal Haven Home if she does it again. The feud continues until a strange turn of events occurs at the end of the story that surprises the pets as well as the Guzmn family. Read the story to find out how their feud turns out.
Short Stories, Childhood Anecdotes and Simple Poems for Everyone contains four stories. In one, a little girl is traumatized by two auto accidents that claimed the lives of all her relatives. At the Los Nios Receiving Home, she attends school, and she is bullied. She becomes rebellious at school and at her foster homes, so she is returned to Los Nios. Finally, a school friend invites her to live with her family and her existence becomes more pleasant. She eventually graduates from college with a teaching credential and soon marries her prince charming. Another story deals with a hate-love feud between classmates that ends up in matrimony. In the next two stories, children and adults are taught that heeding advice can help avoid unpleasant consequences. Finally, the anecdotes and the poems listed are mainly personal experiences expressed in prose or in simple rhyme for everyone to fully understand and enjoy.
A cat named Ginger preys upon two parakeets, whose cage sits atop a dresser, simply out of jealousy. She thinks the family is paying more attention to them than to her. Her chance to get even with the birds comes when she jumps on a chair leaning on the dresser, and takes a swipe at their cage, sending it crashing thunderously to the floor. The noise brings Mrs. Guzmn, who threatens Ginger with sending her to the Animal Haven Home if she does it again. The feud continues until a strange turn of events occurs at the end of the story that surprises the pets as well as the Guzmn family. Read the story to find out how their feud turns out.
In A Boy Becomes a Man, an unfortunate event, the loss of his father, sets a boy's life into hardship. At the age of ten he has to quit school to start working as a goat herder. He, occasionally, trades jobs with his friend, Manuel, who is the pig herder. His many hair-raising experiences lead him to mature and grow beyond his age. A year later, he has to quit his job and say good-bye to his boss and to his friend because his family has to move to San Antonio, from where they plan to emigrate to the United States.
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