Sara Palacios
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores Latin American traditions for celebrating Christmas Eve in a text that combines English and Spanish words and follows the rhythm of Clement Moore's "The Night Before Christmas".
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To escape the noise of her boisterous tías, Martina imagines a peaceful island where she plays quietly with a little mouse, but when she wants to tell of her adventure, she realizes there is no one around--that is until she hears her tías in the next room.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Lola helps her mother at the family's hotel, she learns about compassion, social injustice, and how one voice can lead to change. Includes author's note on Dolores Huerta, a labor organizer who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Albert Einstein had a theory. He thought that somewhere out among the stars, there were collisions in space that might carry many secrets of the distant universe. But was only a theory. Many years later, an immigrant scientist from Argentina named Gabriela González asked the same questions. Armed with modern technology, Gaby joined the team of physicists who set out to prove Einstein's theory. At first, there was nothing. But then. . . they heard...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this simple and moving book, a young family takes a plane to their new home. While onboard, they encounter all the people you meet on a plane: a bookworm, a businessperson, tourists, crying babies, and daydreamers . . . all with their own stories, all heading somewhere special." --
11) Pockets of love
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2024
Language
English
Description
"Grandma Monona always made the best empanadas for Mami's birthday. But this year Monona is in heaven and Mami is sad. Her birthday won't be the same without Monona. Star and Sebi know they need a special birthday surprise to cheer up Mami. Maybe they can make Mami Monona's empanadas themselves! But will they be able to capture the same magic as Monona's empanadas if they don't know her secret ingredient?"--
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 2
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A unique, spunky, multiracial, bilingual girl plans a one-of-a-kind birthday party and hopes her abuelita (grandma) will be able to come from Peru to join the festivities. Includes an author's note and glossaries"--
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 1
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A creative, unique, bilingual Peruvian Scottish-American-soccer-playing artist celebrates her uniqueness.
Author
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Latin Grammy Award-winning children's musical duo 123 Andr�es brings us a bilingual friendship song in board book form!--Amazon.com.
�Esta canci�on divertida y vivaz de 123 Andr�es, incluida en su album ganador de un Grammy, cobra vida de un modo totalmente nuevo, perfecto para la hora del cuento! Por su parte, Sara Palacios anima esta popular canci�on con ilustraciones frescas y vibrantes que involucrar�an a los peque�nos y a sus padres.--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry Holton comes from an ice hockey-obsessed family, but despite his comfort on the ice, his aspirations lead him to pursue another sport--ice dancing.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Jyoti is overwhelmed when she visits her grandmother in India for the first time, but she and Sita Pati quickly form a bond. When Pati visits Jyoti in America, it is Jyoti's turn to help her grandmother feel welcome.
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A scarecrow stood in the garden. Tall, proud, and smiling. Every day a girl brought her favorite books to the garden and she read to him. He heard tales of courage and of hope. And when she said, "The End," the scarecrow always felt a little bit taller and braver. Year after year, she came and she read to him. Until one spring, two different hands picked him up from the garden shed and placed him in the garden. He waited, but she didn't come to read...