Man in front of a school bus
By: Penny M. Thomas
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Nimoshom loved to drive the school bus. Every day, on the way to and from school, he had something to say to the children who rode his bus. Sometimes, he told the kids silly stories.

Two children in the forest
By: Margarita Engle

Edver isn't happy about being shipped off to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows.

Cat with a popsicle
By: Isabel Quintero
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Ugly Cat is dying for a paleta, or ice pop, and his impeccably dressed mouse friend Pablo is determined to help him get one by scaring a little girl who is enjoying a coconut paleta in the park.

The Memory of Light
By: Francisco X. Stork

When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: After her suicide attempt, she shouldn't be alive. But then she meets Mona, the live wire; Gabriel, the saint; E.M., always angry; and Dr.

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