Linda McGinnis

Youth at Risk in Latin America provides evidence-based guidance to policymakers that will help increase the effectiveness of their youth investment program. Drawing on the authors' detailed analyses, the book describes twenty-three policies and programs that youth development experts agree are the basis of a quality youth development portfolio, from early childhood development programs to parent training to cash transfers for positive behaviors. It also lays out strategies for implementing this effective youth portfolio in a budget-constrained environment by reallocation of resources away from ineffective programs, collection and use of data on program effectiveness, and implementation of the portfolio by a diverse set of actors based on their comparative advantages.

Alonzo Herrera has lived in the shadow of his brother for most of his life. After a bitter fight over the woman they both love, he leaves the pueblo, but can't leave behind his dream of helping his people with a water harvesting system. Luz Fragua is a photographer from Jemez Pueblo. The last thing she expects at a demonstration dance at the Pueblo Indian Cultural Center is to photograph a dancer as haunted and powerful in front of the lens as she is behind it. The attraction between them is immediate, but so much stands in their way-how can she trust a man who has left his culture behind? And how can he face the future with a woman whose photographs expose that culture-both the beautiful and the tragic? And yet...the fire that sparks when they're together is more than either can fight. Can the two of them realize their dreams side by side, or will the darkness win out over the light of love?

Grace Kawakami lives in paradise-at least that's what they call Hawaii in 1941. But hell breaks loose in paradise on December 7, when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and Grace's world turns upside down. Her mother, a nurse, is called to work at the hospital. Her brother, Tom, is called to serve with his ROTC unit. And her father is taken away by the authorities. Grace is alone with only herself to depend on. Perhaps most frightening of all is that her brother, Richie, is trapped in Japan and can't come home. And, since all the Kawakami children are dual citizens, Richie may be drafted into the Japanese army. Could it really be that Grace's two brothers might end up fighting each other? She's scared, uncertain and confused. All she can hope is that love will bring her family back together again...because all she has left are dreams of home.