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1) Dreamers
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2019 Graded Reading Lists: Grades K &1
Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Pura Belpré Award winners
Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Pura Belpré Award winners
Formats
Description
"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
2) Soñadores
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"This Spanish edition of Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales's Dreamers, published simultaneously with the English edition, is the author's own immigration story and a tribute to the transformative power of hope. and reading. In 1994, 25-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Xalapa, Mexico, to the San Francisco Bay Area with her two-month-old son, Kelly, in order to secure permanent residency in this country. Her passage was not easy and she...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border - la frontera - and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Descubra por qu�e Selena, la reina de la m�usica tejana, �se convirti�o en una de las artistas m�exico-americanas m�as c�elebres del siglo XX! De joven, Selena Quintanilla cantaba en un grupo llamado Selena y Los Dinos con su hermano y su hermana. La familia actuaba en ferias, bodas, fiestas de quince a�nos y en las esquinas de su Texas natal. Selena aprendi�o a cantar en espa�nol y pronto se hizo muy popular entre la comunidad...
6) Cesar Chavez
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American union leader who fought to get migrant farm workers better wages.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. Theyll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border ? la frontera ? and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, Simon and Schuster Childrens Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, Una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
La impresionante historia de la activista social y autora de éxito nacional Julissa Arce sobre su niñez en Texas y su lucha por alcanzar su Sueño Americano, aun siendo indocumentada. Nacida en Taxco, México, Julissa Arce se quedaba en su pintoresco pueblo durante meses con sus dos hermanas, una niñera y su abuela, mientras que sus padres viajaban incansablemente a Estados Unidos con la esperanza de construir una casa y buscar mejores oportunidades...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Now a powerful graphic novel, this award-winning memoir is an honest and evocative account of a family's journey from Mexico to the fields of California as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.
13) Imagina
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
A buoyant, breathtaking poem from Juan Felipe Herrera - brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo - speaks to every dreaming heart. Now in a Spanish-language edition! ¿ALGUNA VEZ has imaginado quién serás cuando crezcas? Cuando Juan Felipe Herrera era niño, recogió flores, ayudó a su mamá a alimentar a los pollitos, durmió bajo el cielo centelleante y aprendió a decirles adiós a sus amiguitos cada vez que su familia seguía...
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