Sparky's bark / El ladrido de Sparky

by Mimi Chapra, Viví Escrivá and Cristián Pietrapiana

When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English.

Themes

Genres: Fiction

Categories: Beautiful Life, Cross Group

Content: Bi/multilingual

Settings: Northern America, Ohio, United States of America

Ethnicity: Unknown

Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant, Non-Immigrant

Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman

Race/Culture: Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American, White/European American/Caucasian

Cross Group Sub: Central, Direct, Positive

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ISBNs	9780060531720 006053172X z9780060531737 q(lib. bdg.) z0060531738 q(lib. bdg.)
Author	Chapra, Mimi
Title	Sparky's bark = bEl ladrido de Sparky / cby Mimi Chapra ; illustrated by Vivi Escrivá ; [translation by Cristián Pietrapiana]
Alternate Title	Ladrido de Sparky
Edition	1st ed
Published	New York : bKatherine Tegen Books, c©2006
Physical Description	1 volume (unpaged) : bcolor illustrations ; c29 cm
Summary	When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English
Subject	Homesickness English language Latin Americans Dogs Spanish language materials Dogs. English language. Homesickness. Latin Americans.
Genre/Form	Fiction. Juvenile works.
Illustrator	Escrivá, Viví, eillustrator Pietrapiana, Cristián, etranslator Chapra, Mimi. tSparky's bark. lSpanish