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7 Questions for Adriana Páramo: Author of 'Looking for Esperanza'

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Colombian author and mother Adriana Páramo’s brother and father left her family when she was seven, so she grew up in a household of women: her mother, four sisters and aunts. Her powerful new book, Looking for Esperanza, is also about…
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Let Me Help!/¡Quiero ayudar!

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Let Me Help!/¡Quiero ayudar! By Alma Flor Ada • Illustrated by Angela Domínguez Lee & Low Books • 2012 • 32 pages Paperback ($8.95) ISBN: 978-0-89239-239-1 Ages 8-10 Precious lessons are bundled in this fun read that presents…
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On My Block: Stories and Paintings by Fifteen Artists

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On My Block: Stories and Paintings by Fifteen Artists Editied by Dana Goldberg Lee & Low • 2012 • 30 pages Paperback ($8.95) ISBN: 978-0892392407 Ages 6 and up On My Block is a true celebration of diversity in words and pictures.…
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The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos

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The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos By Lucía González • Illustrated by Lulu Delacre Lee & Low Books • 2012 • 32 pages Paperback ($9.95) ISBN: 978-0892392377 Ages 6-8 Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican…
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Growing Vegetable Soup/A sembrar sopa de verduras

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Growing Vegetable Soup/A sembrar sopa de verduras Written & Illustrated by Lois Ehlert Translated by Alma Flor Ada & F. Isabel Campoy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2012 • 32 pages Board Book ($4.99) ISBN: 978-0-547-73497-2 Ages…
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That Mad Game: Growing Up in a Warzone

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That Mad Game: Growing Up in a Warzone An Anthology of Essays from Around the Globe Edited by J.L. Powers Cinco Puntos • 2012 • 231 pages Trade Paperback ($16.95) ISBN: 978-1-935955-22-1 Ages 14 and up “Some people consider…
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I Know the River Loves Me/Yo sé que el río me ama

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I Know the River Loves Me/Yo sé que el río me ama Written & Illustrated by Maya Christina González Lee & Low Books • 2012 • 24 pages Paperback ($8.95) ISBN: 978-0-89239-236-0 Ages 5-7 This follow up to González’s…
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Exploring Geography & Culture with Foods & Recipes

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Two of my kids’ favorite subjects are geography and culture. Both go hand-in-hand really, since you can hardly have one without the other. My children especially love exploring different people, traditions, languages, and lands. And one…
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Quince Crashers

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Excerpted from: Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceañera Stories, edited by Adriana Lopez. “You did what?” I asked. Suddenly, a coughing fit seized me and warm Coke blew out from my…