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Product Description: Sixteen-year-old Carolina "Caro" Torres is excited about spending six weeks of her summer vacation working for her Tía Matilde, mainly because she needs money to buy the car she has been eyeing. But her excitement turns to bewilderment when she finds her aunt hobbling around on a broken foot and, much to her surprise, the owner of a bed and breakfast called Las Mariposas...read more

Paperback:

9781558854949 | Pinata Books, October 31, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When sixteen-year-old Caro Torres goes to help her Tia Matilda at her bed-and-breakfast in Two Sands, California, she ends up also helping her aunt fend off the attempts of her ex-husband to buy the property and steal the treasures that are hidden there.

Prebinding:

9781442004689 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Carolina "Caro" Torres is excited about spending six weeks of her summer vacation working for her Tía Matilde, mainly because she needs money to buy the car she has been eyeing.

When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.When Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.

Paperback:

9781558853270 | Pinata Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.

Prebinding:

9781439565889 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 20, 2008), cover price $18.95 | also contains Summer of El Pintor

Product Description: This intriguing, fast-paced novel for middle-school readers traces the blossoming relationship between young Rosario Silva and her enigmatic cousin Leticia. As Rosario and Leticia begin to share more and more, Rosario ultimately learns her cousin's shocking secret.

Hardcover:

9781558852082 | Arte Publico Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Until she learns Leticia's shocking secret, eleven-year-old Rosario can't understand why adults fawn over this enigmatic cousin who does nothing but sit around the house

Paperback:

9781558852099 | Arte Publico Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Until she learns Leticia's shocking secret, eleven-year-old Rosario can't understand why adults fawn over this enigmatic cousin who does nothing but sit around the house

Prebinding:

9781439557358 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $16.95 | also contains Leticia's Secret | About this edition: This intriguing, fast-paced novel for middle-school readers traces the blossoming relationship between young Rosario Silva and her enigmatic cousin Leticia.

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When a treasured pinata is threatened, little Lupita discovers that she is big enough to help her mother

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9781558852396 | Pinata Books, August 31, 2008, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When a treasured pinata is threatened, little Lupita discovers that she is big enough to help her mother

Product Description: young adult fiction

Hardcover:

9781558851481 | Arte Publico Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When Elena and her little brother, Carlos, leave their Mexican seaside village to search for their immigrant father in Los Angeles, they encounter intrigue, crime, mystery, friendship, and love.

Paperback:

9781558851498 | Arte Publico Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When Elena and her little brother, Carlos, leave their Mexican seaside village to search for their immigrant father in Los Angeles, they encounter intrigue, crime, mystery, friendship, and love.

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9780606134286 | Demco Media, September 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: When Elena and her little brother, Carlos, leave their Mexican seaside village to search for their immigrant father in Los Angeles, they encounter intrigue, crime, mystery, friendship, and love.

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9781439543832 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $18.95 | also contains Girl from Playa Blanca | About this edition: young adult fiction

When a mysterious and valuable guitar is stolen from the shop belonging to old friends of her family, Monica determines to find out what really happened and to uncover the guitar's well-kept secret.

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9781558854123 | Pinata Books, October 31, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When a mysterious and valuable guitar is stolen from the shop belonging to old friends of her family, Monica determines to find out what really happened and to uncover the guitar's well-kept secret.

Prebinding:

9781439543900 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $18.95

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As her family prepares to move to a new home, Pepita refuses to pack her toys or say goodbye to anyone, because saying goodbye might make her cry.

Hardcover:

9781558854314 | Bilingual edition (Arte Publico Pr, November 30, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: As her family prepares to move to a new home, Pepita refuses to pack her toys or say goodbye to anyone, because saying goodbye might make her cry.

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After Tessa's father inexplicably makes her change her summer plans, she spends the summer wondering what he is hiding, experimenting with magic spells, and making a new friend.

Paperback:

9781558854482 | Pinata Books, June 30, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: After Tessa's father inexplicably makes her change her summer plans, she spends the summer wondering what he is hiding, experimenting with magic spells, and making a new friend.

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Tina's mother doesn't seem to accept her new friend, Little Bell, until the night Mamá cooks tamales, and they learn they both speak the same language, in a tale about learning to appreciate each others' differences.

Hardcover:

9781558853737 | Bilingual edition (Pinata Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tina's mother doesn't seem to accept her new friend until the night Mamâa cooks tamales, and they learn they both speak the same language.

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Pepita is afraid that her report about her family members may not be interesting, but she ultimately realizes that all of them play an important role in her life.

Hardcover:

9781558853751 | Pinata Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Pepita is afraid that her report about her family members may not be interesting, but she ultimately realizes that all of them play an important role in her life.

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Sixteen-year-old Maggie Cruz leaves her mother's and stepfathers's big city Los Angeles home in order to lead a simpler life in her grandfather's small town house and gains fresh perspective on her life.

Hardcover:

9781558853720 | Pinata Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Maggie Cruz leaves her mother's and stepfathers's big city Los Angeles home in order to lead a simpler life in her grandfather's small town house and gains fresh perspective on her life.

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Pepita thinks it doesn't matter that she is always late, until she finally realizes how her tardiness affects other people and herself.

Hardcover:

9781558853041 | Bilingual edition (Arte Publico Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Pepita thinks it doesn't matter that she is always late, until she finally realizes how her tardiness affects other people and herself.

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Pepita, who does not like the color pink, learns that it is the favorite color of the new girl next door

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9781558852402 | Arte Publico Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Pepita does not like the color pink and is dismayed to learn that it is the favorite color of the pink little girl who moves in next door.

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When a treasured pinata is threatened, little Lupita discovers that she is big enough to help her mother

Hardcover:

9781558852211 | Pinata Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When a treasured pinata is threatened, little Lupita discovers that she is big enough to help her mother

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Pepita, who does not like the color pink, learns that it is the favorite color of the new girl next door

Hardcover:

9781558852228 | Arte Publico Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Pepita does not like the color pink and is dismayed to learn that it is the favorite color of the pink little girl who moves in next door.

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After suddenly being orphaned, twelve-year-old Consuelo reluctantly moves in with her American grandmother while hoping to return soon to her Mexican American family

Hardcover:

9781558851887 | Arte Publico Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After suddenly being orphaned, twelve-year-old Consuelo reluctantly moves in with her American grandmother while hoping to return soon to her Mexican American family

Paperback:

9781558851870 | Arte Publico Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: After suddenly being orphaned, twelve-year-old Consuelo reluctantly moves in with her American grandmother while hoping to return soon to her Mexican American family

Prebinding:

9780613902540 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $20.85 | also contains Call Me Consuelo

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Pepita, who knows Spanish and English, decides not to 'speak twice'

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9781558850774 | Arte Publico Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Pepita, a little girl who can converse in Spanish and English, decides not to 'speak twice' until unanticipated problems cause her to think twice about her decision.

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