The Desert Is My Mother
By: Pat Mora
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A girl with long, dark hair appreciates the surprisingly lush and colorful desert: "I say feed me,/She serves red prickly pears…" The poetic text in both Spanish and English is placed on different colors on one side of the page; crisp, full-color illus

By: Denys Cazet
Bovine buddies Minnie and Moo are inspired after reading about Zorro. Moo decides that there are just not enough heroes and so she and her friend don disguises to become Juanita del Zorro del Moo and
By: Rosalyn Schanzer
Benjamin Franklin was amazing. He was a musician, a printer, a cartoonist, a shopkeeper, an inventor and more. He figured out how to solve many problems – including how to steal lightening from the sky to
By: Star Livingstone
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Harley is loner who just can't seem to get along with the other llamas. But a shepherd who needs to protect his flock from coyotes sees something else in

Lori is a Mexican-American girl who lives in a town near the border. Every summer, all the relatives from both sides of the border gather at her aunt's house in Mexico to celebrate the birthday of Lori's older sister.

A librarian rides on a donkey
By: Jeanette Winter

Product Description: Luis loves to read, but soon his house in Colombia is so full of books there's barely room for the family. What to do? Then he comes up with the perfect solution — a traveling library!

Illustration of children pile of tamales
By: Gary Soto
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For their family's Christmas celebration, María's mother makes lots of tamales. But while María is helping out, she tries on her mother's ring and loses it in the dough.

This book is set in Oaxaca, Mexico, during the fun and excitement of a traditional music and dance festival. The main character, Naty, joins the celebration in a giant mouse costume, but later gets separated from her father.

Cartoons of skeletons dancing
By: Luis San Vicente

With the humor and spirit of the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead, this imaginative festival depicts the travels, dances, and songs of happy skulls and skeletons.

By: Matthew Gollub
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With the tempo and rhythm of a Mexican fiesta, this bouncy Spanish rendition re-creates the folklore and traditions of the people of Oaxaca, Mexico, as the jealous moon decides to have her own fiesta where people can sing, eat, parade, and dance.

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