Quick view Details Zulema and the Witch Owl / Zulema Y La Bruja Lechuza by Xavier Garza by Xavier Garza
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Quick view Details A School Named for Someone Like Me/Una Escuela Con Un Nombre Como El Mio by Martinez Davila
Quick view Details Estas manos: Manitas de mi familia / These Hands: My Familys Hands by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo
Quick view Details Estrellita en la ciudad grande/ Estrellita in the Big City by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo
Quick view Pepita Talks Twice/Pepita Habla Dos Veces by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman Pepita, a little girl who can converse in Spanish and English, decides not to "speak twice" until unanticipated problems cause her to think twice about her decision. View Details
Quick view Zulema and the Witch Owl / Zulema Y La Bruja Lechuza by Xavier Garza by Xavier Garza Nine-year-old Zulema, the meanest girl in school, decides to change her wicked ways after receiving a visit from the witch owl. View Details
Quick view Pepita on Pepper Street/ Pepita En La Calle Pepper by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman Pepita, unhappy about her family's move to a street where everything is new to her, is not very friendly to her neighbors as they pass by, but later has another chance to make friends. View Details
Quick view Estrellita Se Despide De Su Isla/Estrellita Says Good-bye to Her Island by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo As Estrellita leaves her beloved Caribbean island home, she combines all of its features into an ode celebrating its green and eternal beauty. View Details
Quick view Chave's Memories/Los Recuerdos de Chave by Maria Isabel Delgado A woman recalls childhood visits to her grandparents' ranch in Mexico, where she and her brother played with her cousins and listened to the stories of an old Indian ranch hand. View Details
Quick view A School Named for Someone Like Me/Una Escuela Con Un Nombre Como El Mio by Martinez Davila The sister of Jaime Dâavila, a promising young lawyer and Mexican American community leader, recounts his boyhood, education, and death and describes how a school came to be named after him. View Details
Quick view Estas manos: Manitas de mi familia / These Hands: My Familys Hands by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo In this heart-warming ode to family, the young narrator compares the hands of family members to plants in the natural world. Your hands, the most tender hands! / When I'm scared, / They soothe me, she says to her mother. The girl compares her mother's... View Details
Quick view A Mummy in Her Backpack / Una momia en su mochila by James Luna Flor enjoyed her two-week trip to Mexico, though she's glad to be back at school. But when she tries to pull her homework out of her backpack, she's shocked to feel a cold hand clutching hers. Thinking that the pesky boys in her class are playing a trick... View Details
Quick view The Last Doll / La Ultima Muneca by Diane Gonzales Bertrand A beautiful old-fashioned doll, long neglected on a toy store's shelves, becomes the last special doll given to a Mexican American girl when she celebrates her fifteenth birthday. View Details
Quick view Estrellita en la ciudad grande/ Estrellita in the Big City by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo Relates, in Spanish and English, a telephone conversation in which young Estrellita, who has recently moved to Brooklyn, New York, tells her grandmother, who still lives in Puerto Rico, all about her adventures in and near Manhattan. View Details
Quick view Chave's Memories/ Los Recuerdos De Chave by Maria Isabel Delgado A woman recalls childhood visits to her grandparents' ranch in Mexico, where she and her brother played with her cousins and listened to the stories of an old Indian ranch hand. View Details
Quick view Sofia and the Purple Dress / Sofia y el vestido morado by Diane Gonzales Bertrand Third-grader Sofia wants to wear a beautiful, hand-me-down dress to her cousin Rosario's quinceaänara, but first she will have to lose some weight by exercising and eating healthier foods, with help from her mother and sister. View Details