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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Can Lety find her voice before it's too late? Lety Muñoz's first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the Furry Friends Animal Shelter because the dogs and cats there don't care if she can't always find the right word. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance. But grumpy classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles--so now they have...
4) El barrio
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A young boy explores his vibrant Latino neighborhood, with its vegetable gardens instead of lawns, Nativity parades, quinceañera parties, and tejana and salsa music.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
Pedro dreams of playing goalie for the next big soccer match. But he worries he's too slow and too small. Will Pedro meet his big goal? Reader-support tools, such as a glossary and discussion questions, make this a great choice for early-readers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
With a new clubhouse in his yard, Pedro decides to start a mystery-solving club. Will he and his friends find the clues to crack the case? A simple plot, relatable characters, and reader-support tools are delivered with the young reader in mind.
11) Invisible
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? There's George: the brain, Sara: the loner, Dayara: the tough kid, Nico: the rich kid, and Miguel: the athlete. And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their school's community service hours. Although they're sure they have nothing in common with one another, some people see them as all the same--just five Spanish-speaking kids. Then they meet someone who truly needs their help,...
12) Mamá and me
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A girl and her mother spend a day together gardening, making cookies, and visiting a neighbor. Includes Spanish words interspersed in the text.
14) Zally's book
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When thirteen-year-old Zally Guevara's grandmother gives her the family's magical cacao seed talisman, Zally dreams her way to Aventurine, an enchanted land where fairy-godmothers-in-training awaken their individual powers.
16) Taking sides
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 10
Description
Desmond and Andres attend a school dance at Kersville Elementary that is complicated by reluctant dancers, over-loud music, teacher supervision, and ghouls on the dance floor.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
19) Pedro goes buggy
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Pedro collects a lot of different bugs for a class assignment, but when his brother lets them out in the house their parents are furious, and ban any further collecting.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In this highly anticipated conclusion to New York Times best-selling author Amy Tintera's All These Monsters duology, Clara and Team Seven's quest to expose the truth behind the scrab menace has them facing their biggest threat yet: their own demons.
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