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Gaby, Lost and Found

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Gaby Ramirez Howard is having a rough time.  Since her mom was deported to Honduras, she has had to live with her dad. He means well; but he hasn’t been around for most of her childhood and his parenting skills are rusty, to say the least.…
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How Singalongs Help Your Child Learn Spanish #BilingualPlus

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Singalongs are a great way for kids to learn Spanish. Strolling about town, watching traffic jams, skirting bicycles and skateboarders on sidewalks, I often catch myself humming. Waiting for a traffic light to change, fellow pedestrians raise…
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Don’t Say A Word, Mamá / No Digas Nada, Mamá

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Blanca and Rosa are grownup sisters with big hearts who live in their own homes on the same street as their beloved mamá. They each have a large garden overflowing with delicious vegetables. Without telling one another, the two generous sisters…
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Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States

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When Cool Salsa first came out in 1994, I was one of its early readers. I loved the book; and 20 years later, my feelings about it have not changed. Lori M. Carlson began to study Spanish in elementary school, and went on to study abroad.…
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Maria Had a Little Llama / María tenía una llamita

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Mary had a little lamb... But this is the story of a little girl named Maria, and she had a little llama instead! Maria’s llama loves her so much that it follows her all around her village, all the way to school, where it soon finds out…
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The I'm Not Scared Book

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The I’m Not Scared Book Written and Illustrated by Todd Parr Little, Brown and Company. 2011. 32 pages Hardcover ($11) ISBN 978-0-316-0-8445-1 Ages 3-6 Parr uses his typical bright rainbow colors with chunky simple drawings that show…
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Zombie Baseball Beatdown

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Zombie Baseball Beatdown By Paolo Bacigalupi Little Brown · 2013 · 304 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-316-22078-1 Ages 10 to 13 The boys who read this—and its readers will be mostly boys—will love the frenetic action and…
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Faster! Faster! / ¡Más rápido! ¡Más rápido!

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Faster! Faster! / ¡Más rápido! ¡Más rápido! Written and Illustrated by Leslie Patricelli Candlewick Press • 2013 • 30 pages Board Book ($6.99) ISBN: 978-0-7636-6611-8 Ages 2-5 “Faster! Faster! / ¡Más rápido! ¡Más rápido!”…
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Under the Mambo Moon

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Under the Mambo Moon is really two books in one. One book tells a story in words and magnificent black and white illustrations: It’s the story of a young girl named Marisol, who helps her dad at his music store. All day long, people enter…