Pam Muñoz Ryan
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English
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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
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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.
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Español
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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.
3) The dreamer
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English
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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
4) Echo
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English
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Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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Series
Tony Baloney volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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It is the first day of school for Tony Baloney, the macaroni penguin, and he wants to follow all the class rules, but Tony has a way of finding trouble.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
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Tony Baloney volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Halloween is coming! This year, Tony Baloney wants to stand out in the crowd at the school Halloween parade. But can he keep his costume intact until the day of the parade?
13) Mañanaland
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2020.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
14) Mud is cake
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Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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A brother and sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything.
15) Nacho and Lolita
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A very rare pitacohi bird falls in love with a swallow and plucks his colorful feathers to transform dry, barren San Juan Capistrano into a haven of flowers and flowing water, which the swallows can easily find when returning from their annual migration.
17) Mice and beans
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
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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.
20) Mañanaland
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Newbery Honoree Pam Muñoz Ryan weaves an entrancing tale of courage and self-discovery.
A Maximiliano Córdoba le encantan las historias, especialmente la leyenda que le cuenta Buelo sobre un mítico guardián que ayuda a los viajeros valientes de corazón puro en un viaje a la tierra del mañana.Si Max pudiera ver el mañana, sabría si lo aceptarán en el famoso club de fútbol de Santa María y si alguna vez encontrará a su madre,...Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search