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Niño wrestles the world

2013

by Yuyi Morales

Lucha Libre champion Niño has no trouble fending off monstrous opponents, but when his little sisters awaken from their naps, he is in for a no-holds-barred wrestling match that will truly test his skills.

Maggie’s chopsticks

2012

by Alan Woo and Isabelle Malenfant

Maggie has new chopsticks, but her family tells her that she is holding them all wrong, until Father comes along to tell her that she is unique and can do it her own way

Elan, son of two peoples

2014

by Heidi Smith Hyde and Mikela Prevost

In 1898, just after his Bar Mitzvah, thirteen-year-old Elan and his family travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he meets his mother's family and participates in the Pueblo ceremony of becoming a man.

A piñata in a pine tree

2009

by Pat Mora and Magaly Morales

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

2008

by Susan Middleton Elya and Jenny Mattheson

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 stone cutter & The Navajo maiden / Tsé yitsidí dóó chʼiḱę́ęh bitsédaashjééʼ

2008

by Vee. Browne and Johnson Yazzie

When the metate, or grinding stone, that Cinnibah uses to grind corn into flour breaks, she sets out on a quest to mend the precious family heirloom.

The cucuy stole my cascarones

2013

by Spelile Rivas and Valeria Cervantes

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

2009

by Elizabeth O. Dulemba

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

2010

by Jorge Argueta

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

Level up / Paso de nivel