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Show FiltersLupita’s papalote / El papalote de Lupita
A young girl wants to fly a kite, but her family cannot afford to buy one, so her father helps her make a kite of her own.
Ricardo’s race / La carrera de Ricardo
Recounts, in Spanish and in English, the story of Ricardo Romo, a Hispanic-American All-American athlete and scholar who became, among other things, a U.S. representative to the United Nations, and the president of University of Texas at San Antonio.
Imagine
"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mamá feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for their place in life"--Dust jacket
Gathering the sun
A book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet
Iguanas in the snow y otros poemas de invierno
These poems celebrate winter in San Francisco and the mountains of Northern California
Salsa
Provides a poetic recipe for making salsa by grinding the ingredients together on a black lava mocaljete as the early Mesoamericans did
The quiet place
A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life
The dead family Diaz
Angelito Diaz is afraid of walking among the Living on the Day of the Dead - Dìa de los Muertos -- especially with his older sister, Estrellita, teasing him, but once in the Land of the Living, he quickly makes a new friend.
Nana’s big surprise
Amada and her family build a chicken coop, hoping that her grandmother, visiting from Mexico, will enjoy raising the chickens and be distracted from her grief at Grandfather's death.