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A brief rain shower does not dampen a Latino family's enjoyment of their town's parade and summer celebration, which includes street food, bands, a corn princess, and fireworks. Spanish words, interspersed in the rhyming text, are defined in a glossary.
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Lily Lujan is known as Little Chanclas because she wears her chanclas, or flip flops, wherever she goes, especially to parties, so when the chanclas come apart while she is dancing at a family barbecue and Chewcho the bulldog eats one, Lily is inconsolable until Granny Lola arrives with a solution.
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Pedro y su papá van de excursión al bosque. Su papá no puede esperar para enseñarle a Pedro cómo sobrevivir en la naturaleza. Pero Pedro sabe mucho de plantas y de animales salvajes, y su papá no para de meterse en problemas. ¿Tendrá Pedro que ayudar a su papá a salir del bosque?
Pedro and his father go on a hike in the woods--where it turns out that Pedro knows a lot more about the plants and animals then his father does, but they both...
11) Icy watermelon
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When three generations of a family gather to eat watermelon, the grandparents reminisce about how the sweet fruit brought them together.
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Los jóvenes latinos en los Estados Unidos están redefiniendo su identidad, rompiendo moldes establecidos, y despertando políticamente de maneras sorprendentes y poderosas. Muchos de ellos--afrolatinos, indígenas, musulmanes, queer e indocumentados tanto en zonas urbanas como rurales--representan voces históricamente ignoradas en el modo en que la diversa población de casi seis millones de latinos en los Estados Unidos ha sido representada. Hasta...
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"In this personal manifesto, Ramos sets out to examine what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in present-day America. Using current research and statistics, with a journalist's nose for a story, and interweaving his own personal experience, Ramos shows us the changing face of America while also trying to find an explanation for why he, and millions of others, still feel like strangers in this country"--Back cover of English-language...
14) The day it snowed tortillas =: El día que nevaron tortillas : a classic from the American southwest
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A collection of classic tales from New Mexico, including "Pedro and Diablo, " "La Hormiguita, " "La Llorona, " and "Juan Camisón, " in both Spanish and English.
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"A young Latina girl accidentally breaks her grandfather's vihuela and searches for someone in the community to fix the instrument, which leads her to discover her grandfather's legacy as a mariachi. Includes an author's note and glossary"--
Una joven chica latina rompe accidentalmente vihuela y las búsquedas de su abuelo para alguien en la comunidad para fijar el instrumento, lo que le lleva a descubrir el legado de su abuelo como un mariachi....
16) Family pictures
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The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.
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"En No he dejado de soñar, la biografía franca, inspiradora y graciosísima de uno de los más intrépido líderes políticos del los Estados Unidos, Luis Gutiérrez hace recuento de una vida transcurrida entre dos mundos: norteamericano para Puerto Rico. Adorado pos los inmigrantes y trabajadores por cuyos derechos tanto ha luchado, Luis Gutiérrez es un testamento vivo de lo que una person puede lograr cuando se propone una meta, por muy alta...
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