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Classic Teen Books: Must-Reads for the Modern Young Adult

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With blockbuster franchises like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games, there is no shortage of books to get teens excited about reading. But so much media hype and fan frenzy over the movies and the actors who star in them makes it…
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Books to Celebrate All The Holidays, Not Just Christmas!

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As more and more of us are marrying into non-Latino families and blending together different cultural traditions, our children are likely to be exposed to a number of different year-end holidays beyond Christmas and New Year’s. To help…
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The Missing Link: Latinos in Books & Publishing

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Earlier this week the New York Times ran an article citing the Pew Hispanic Center study that says Latino children make up a quarter of students enrolled in public schools around the country. Yet they do not have nearly enough books available with…
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Count Me In! A Parade of Mexican Folk Art Numbers in English and Spanish

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Count Me In! A Parade of Mexican Folk Art Numbers in English and Spanish By Cynthia Weill • Illustrated by The Aguilar Sisters Cinco Puntos Press • 2012 • 32 pages Hardcover ($14.95) ISBN: 978-1-935955-39-9 Ages 3-6 With the…
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3 Simple Steps to Start A Book Club

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Do you love reading? Do you wish you could be part of a book club where you could get together with other book lovers and talk character and plot lines? Don’t wait for an invitation. Start your own book club. It’s easier than you think! That’s…
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Spike the Mixed-up Monster

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Spike the Mixed-up Monster By Susan Hood • Illustrated by Melissa Sweet Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books • 2012 • 40 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-1442406018 Ages 4-8 Meet Spike, the axolotl, and his three amigos—a…
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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind

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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind Meg Medina Candlewick Press • 2012 • 246 pages Hardcover ($17.99) ISBN: 978-0-7636-4602-8 Ages 13 and up Sonia Ocampo is not a typical small-town teenager. She was born during a terrible storm…
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Summer of the Mariposas

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Summer of the Mariposas Guadalupe Garcia McCall Tu Books • 2012 • 355 pages Hardcover ($19.95) ISBN 978-1-60060-900-8 Ages 12 and up Mothers and daughters. As our girls grow up, the relationship becomes more difficult to navigate;…
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I See The Sun In Mexico/Veo el Sol en México

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I See The Sun In Mexico/Veo el Sol en México By Dedie King • Illustrated by Judith Inglese Translated by Julio Ortiz Manzo Satya House Publishers • 2012 • 40 pages Paperback ($12.95) ISBN: 978-1-9358741-4-0 Ages: 5-8 A delightful…