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The steel pan man of Harlem
A mysterious man appears in Harlem and promises to rid the city of its rats by playing the steel pan drum. Includes an author's note about the origins of the story, the setting, and the history of steel drums
Can’t scare me!
A fearless little boy ignores Grandma's warning about nighttime monsters until he runs away and meets the two- headed giant's three-headed brother
The magical tooth fairies
"The tooth fairies travel to Mexico to help a boy whose tooth has been stolen by parrots as McCavity and Dee Kay try to take back control of Tooth Fairy Town"--|cProvided by publisher
Never forgotten
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
The best gift of all / El mejor regalo del mundo
Retellling of the Dominican folk character, La Vieja Belén , who leaves gifts for poor children a week after the Feast of the Epiphany.
Mulan
There was once an extraordinary girl who was as beautiful as she was brave. She knew how to read and write and sew. She loved to ride horses and shoot her bow and arrows. But it was the love for her family and her father that made her into a great soldier.--Back cover
The Shark King
In graphic novel format, retells the Hawaiian story of Nanaue, born of human mother and shark father, who struggles to find his place in a village of humans. -- publisher
Papa gave me a stick
After seeing a mariachi band, Antonio wants a guitar of his own but his father cannot afford one and gives Antonio a stick, instead, which leads Antonio to perform a series of good deeds, each of which provides a seemingly useless reward. Includes glossary of Spanish terms
Juan and the Jackalope
Competing for the hand of the lovely Rosita and her rhubarb pie, Juan rides a Jackalope in a race against Pecos Bill