Matt de la Peña
1) Love
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate the bonds of love that connect us all.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This jacketed picture book pairs Newbery Winner Matt de la Pena and Pixar artist Ana Ramirez with the highly anticipated Pixar Studios film, Coco. Featuring a beautiful original story based on the characters of the film, as well as vibrant stylized artwork.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
5) We were here
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dak, Sera, and Riq have fixed the Great Breaks in history ... but the SQ isn't beaten yet, and the biggest, boldest Infinity Ring adventure of all time has just begun!
8) The living
Author
Series
The living volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
9) Amor
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate the bonds of love that connect us all.
En el comienzo hay luz, y dos siluetas de grandes ojos al pie de tu cuna, y el sonido de sus voces es amor. Amor es la melodía que nos acompaña todos y cada uno de los días de nuestra vida. Ya sea el suave arrullo de nuestros padres a la hora de dormir, la risa divertida que provoca un cuento inventado por nuestro tío o el abrazo cálido de un ser querido que...
11) The hunted
Author
Series
The living volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
After surviving the earthquake and tsunami, Shy manages to make it back to land, but he's far from safe because a secret his cruise ship coworker Addie shared with him is one that people have killed for, and now that Shy knows, he's become a moving target.
13) I will save you
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.
Author
Series
Language
English
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2019 - Most Popular Picture Books
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Newbery Medal Award Winners
Three, Four Tell Me More: My Family
2020 - The Most Popular Picture Books
Newbery Medal Award Winners
Three, Four Tell Me More: My Family
Description
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty-and fun-in their routine and the world around them. -- from Amazon.
15) Pocho
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Danny es alto y delgado. A pesar de no ser fuerte, sus brazos son lo suficientemente largos como para lanzar un balón de fútbol americano con tanta fuerza, que cualquier cazatalentos lo contrataría sin pensarlo dos veces. Pero Danny ni siquiera es parte de un equipo. Cada vez que se entra en el campo, es como si perdiera sus poderes. Pero eso no tiene importancia. No es como si en la escuela privada a la que va esperen mucho de el. Danny es morenito....
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Milo hace un largo viaje en metro. Para pasar el tiempo, observa a la gente a su alrededor y hace dibujos de cómo se imagina que son sus vidas. Está el hombre de bigotes con un crucigrama; Milo lo dibuja jugando al solitario en un apartamento desordenado. Está la mujer vestida de novia; Milo la dibuja en una gran ceremonia en la catedral. Y luego está el chico del traje; Milo lo dibuja llegando a su hogar, que es un castillo. ¿Pero qué pasa...
17) Retazos
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Del autor ganador de la Medalla Newbery, Matt de la Peña, y de la ilustradora bestseller del New York Times, Corinna Luyken, llega esta profundamente conmovedora oda a las infinitas posibilidades que cada niño promete: Una joven bailarina podría convertirse un día en programadora. Un jugador de baloncesto podría convertirse en poeta. La chistosa de la clase podría llegar a ser una maestra inspiradora. Y la niña silenciosa y solidaria de hoy...
19) Aquí estuvimos
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
c2021.
Language
Español
Description
Desde las calles de Stockton hasta las playas de Venice Beach, y hasta la frontera con México, Aquí estuvimos narra el viaje de autodescubrimiento de un niño que intenta perdonarse a sí mismo en un mundo implacable. Cuando sucedió, a Miguel lo enviaron al centro de detención juvenil. El juez lo sentenció a un año en una casa hogar para menores; dijo que tenía que escribir en un diario para que algún consejero pudiera tratar de entender su...
20) Mexican whiteboy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound, he loses it. But at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny is brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone...
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