A Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia
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After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are oranges like the ones Maria's parents once ate in their homeland, Valencia, Spain. That very day Maria and her family plant the seeds that soon yield a magnificent orange grove and save the farm. But who was the mysterious lady who appeared in her dream and will Maria ever find her again?
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If you have read a book aloud twenty-nine times, I think you have the right to call it a read book. And that's what I did last week with this book.
We visited the Dominican Republic. We chose our books to Dominican music including Chichi Peralta and Ramon Orlando. We smelled a just-peeled orange (“like tickling in your nose”). We looked at necklaces and candles of Our Lady of Guadalupe. We talked about legends. But most of all, we read this beautiful old story from the Dominican Republic, as waited with Maria for her father to come home and dreamed with Maria as she learned about planting oranges and saying gracias and rejoiced with Maria as the old friend of her father's unrolled a blanket with an image of Our Lady made from falling stars.
It was a beautiful week.
