Joe Cepeda
Author
Language
English
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Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Pura Belpré Award winners
YS eNewsletter Spotlight: Audio books for the Whole Family
Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Pura Belpré Award winners
YS eNewsletter Spotlight: Audio books for the Whole Family
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
2) I dig
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"At the beach, a boy digs a tunnel where he finds a crab, starfish, and best of all, a dog"--
3) The swing
Author
Publisher
A. A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Josey uses the new swing attached to the tree in her messy yard, she retrieves all the things her parents thought they had lost over the years, including Leopoldo, their dog.
4) I see
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An easy reader where a boy sees insects and animals"--
5) I hop
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A boy rides a pogo stick to a visit with Grandma.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A polar cub gets separated from his mother and finds that the big world is no place to be from his mom. He searches for anything that had a black nose like mamma, but they were not his mom. But, the love of a mother finds him and his world is sweet and comfortable again.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
An adaptation of the song "The wheels on the bus," written in Spanish and English, which follows two children who see and hear a train, a fire truck, an ambulance, and other vehicles on their way to an amusement park. Includes music.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
There is no one like Nana in the whole wide world. She is the best. Nana knows how to take an ordinary afternoon and make it extra special! Nap time, story time, and playtime are transformed by fairies, dragons, dancing, and pretending -- and then mixing and fixing yummy, yummy fudge just like Nana and Mommy did not so many years ago.... -- from Amazon.
13) Nappy hair
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Various people at a backyard picnic offer their comments on a young girl's tightly curled, "nappy" hair.
14) N is for Navidad
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A rhyming book that outlines the preparations for and celebration of the Christmas season, with Spanish words for each letter of the alphabet translated in a glossary.
16) Mice and beans
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.
Author
Series
Golden hamster saga volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature.
Author
Series
Golden hamster saga volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Freddy the golden hamster and his animal cohorts, along with a computerized, robotic golden hamster, travel back in time to Assyria, where some of them are captured by crusaders and Freddy gets a taste of undomesticated living.
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