Pam Muñoz Ryan
Author
Language
English
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - Pura Belpré Award
NPM - JUV GRL V
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - Pura Belpré Award
NPM - JUV GRL V
Description
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.
2) Echo
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
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. Esperanza Ortega has a wonderful life in Mexico until tragedy shatters her dream and forces her and her mother to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp.
5) Mañanaland
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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?
8) The dreamer
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
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.
14) Pen pal
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tony Baloney and his school are celebrating pen pal month! Big Sister Baloney says her pen pal is always a friend for life. Tony Baloney hopes his pen pal will be a friend for life, too!"--Page [4] of cover.
16) Tony Baloney
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tony, a macaroni penguin, is a middle child with very exasperating siblings, and although he never looks for trouble, it often finds him.
17) Hello, Ocean
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
18) Yo, Naomi León
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Tony and his big sister can go to the indoor camping event, Books and Buddies, if they are good--but being polite and helping each other for a whole day is difficult for this brother and sister.
20) Mud is cake
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything.
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