Product Description: Every night was routine for Adeline Abigail Adams: dinner at 6, bath at 7, brush teeth at 7:15, and thenit would come out. The GIANT, wooden, hairbrush Adeline detested the most. When Adeline ignores her mothers warning and declares she will never brush her hair again, her curls transform into something quite extraordinar...read more

An engaging bilingual picture book about migrations combines the wonder of nature with the places we carry in our hearts.

Product Description: AWARDS: 2008 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration Américas Award, International Latino Book Award, and Christopher Award-winning author. Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could...read more

Seven-year-old Lola Levine is fierce on the soccer field. She can do a slide tackle (although she's not supposed to) and even likes gooey worms. Nothing scares Lola! That is, until she is auditioning in front of EVERYONE for her class play. After Lola is overcome with stage fright, she's cast as Squirrel #2, a non-speaking part! Lola is more than a little disappointed, and she looks to her bubbe for advice and comfort. But on opening night, the curtain rises, and she finds herself smack in the middle of an exasperating turn of events. In this fun and heartfelt chapter book, can Lola give Squirrel #2 her own special stamp and make it a play to remember?

Product Description: "There's a place for us / Somewhere a place for us . . ." With the emergence of a rich body of literature chronicling the experiences of Latino and Latina gang members, popular understanding of this outlaw culture has advanced far beyond West Side Story...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Marisol is turning eight, and it's time to plan a birthday party that will be fabulous, marvelous, and divine. She also hopes that Abuelita, who lives far away in Peru, will be able to come to the celebration. At the party store, Marisol can t decide what kind of party to have...read more

A bilingual portrait of the 'Queen of Salsa' describes her childhood in Cuba, her musical career, and her move to the United States, and explains how her music brought her native Cuba to the world.

An introduction to the life and work of the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author describes his childhood in Aracataca, Colombia, and how the things that surrounded him inspired his imagination and his desire to become a storyteller.

Featuring a bilingual text and fully illustrated in color, this biography of Gabriela Mistral describes the life of a Chilean-born woman who loved words, sounds, and stories, who would grow to become the first Nobel Prize-winning Latina woman in the world.