Product Description: The watchman feels very fortunate to have a job in El Salvador after the civil war, when so many people are unemployed. It's boring but easy work, taking care of a new house that belongs to a Salvadoran couple living in Los Angeles...read more

Product Description: Like many human children, Cucuy, the little monster, doesn't like to go to bed. "I'm not sleepy," he says. "All I want to do is jump around and play!" He tries to run and hide, but Mamá manages to get him into his pajamas. Every night he kicks and screams, wiggles and jiggles, mumbles and grumbles...read more

Product Description: In this bilingual collection of five stories, Don Cecilio tells the neighborhood children stories that make their hair stand on end. In my barrio they told the story . . . and so his cuento would begin. In The Owl and the Bundle, young Tomas disappears without a trace...read more

A novel originally published in 1926 follows the Garcâia and Quijano families as they cross the border into the United States, hoping to escape the Mexican Revolution and to achieve a better life, only to face racism and heavy labor.