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Any Child 101
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Beautiful Life 101
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Biography 16
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Cross Group 52
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Folklore 18
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Activism 12
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Bi/multilingual 191
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Disability 15
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Fiction 242
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Background 29
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Lola’s fandango
After learning how to dance a style of flamenco known as the fandango, Lola plans a surprise for her mother's birthday
Doña Flor
Doña Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind the huge noise
A piñata in a pine tree
In this adaptation of the folk song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," friends exchange such gifts as a piñata and "cuatro luminarias." Includes pronunciation and glossary of Spanish words, musical notation of the song, and a description of Christmas foods and other holiday traditions from different Latin American countries
Tooth on the loose
A girl hopes her tooth will fall out so that she can have money to buy her father a birthday present. Includes index of Spanish words and phrases used in text.
The land of lost things
When he looks for his missing blue pencil, a boy enters a strange new world which contains some very familiar objects
The cucuy stole my cascarones
Roberto and his mother made thirty dozen confetti-filled eggs, or cascarones, for guests at his birthday party, and he is sure the bogeyman--the cucuy--has stolen them along with the tamales, cake, and pinata
Soap, soap, soap / Jabón, jabón, jabón
Hugo's mother sends him to the store to buy soap. As a result of his comical adventures, soap is exactly what Hugo needs when he returns home.
Arroz con leche
Provides a poetic recipe for rice pudding that not only offers instructions for making the treat but highlights the ways in which it can delight all the senses
My colors, my world / Mis colores, mi mundo
Maya longs to find brilliant, beautiful color in her world. But when the wind blows, desert sand covers everything, and turns her whole neighborhood the color of dust. With the help of a feathered friend, Maya searches high and low to find the colors in her world. And she does in the vibrant purple of Mama's flowers, the juicy green of a prickly cactus, the hot pink clouds at sunset, and the shiny black of Papi's hair. As they follow Maya's search for all the colors of the rainbow, little readers will be inspired to look around and ask themselves, where can I find the colors in my world?
Lupita’s first dance / El primer baile de Lupita
Lupita is excited about dancing La Raspa, a Mexican folk dance, with her first-grade class at a celebration of Children's Day, El Día de los Niños, but just before the performance her partner, Ernesto, sprains his ankle.