Pam Muñoz Ryan
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
23) Mud is cake
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brother and sister find that when they use their imagination , mud can become cake and they themselves, can bedome almost anything.
24) Yo, Naomi Leon
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.
27) When Marian sang
Author
Pub. Date
c. 2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography about Black woman singer Marian Anderson (1897-1993). She sang concerts and opera music.
29) Pinta el viento
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
30) El soñador
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A fictionalized biography of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who grew up as a painfully shy child ridiculed by his overbearing father.
31) Mananaland
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Maximiliano Cordoba loves stories, especially the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow. If Max could see tomorrow, he would know if he will make Santa Maria's celebrated futbol team and whether he'll ever meet his mother, who disappeared when he was a baby. He longs to know more about her, but Papa won't talk. So when Max uncovers a buried family secret -- involving an underground...
32) Esperanza rising
Author
Formats
Description
When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"The kids in these humorous short stories each have a minor superpower they're learning to live with. One can shape-shift--but only part of her body, and only on Mondays. Another can always tell whether an avocado is perfectly ripe. One can even hear the thoughts of the animals in the pet store! But what these stories are really about is their young protagonists "owning" a power that contributes to their individuality, that allows them to find their...