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The author recalls the year when his farm worker parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school for the first time.

Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture. The English-Spanish text...

Ten-year-old Pablo falls out of his father's old truck on the way to pick melons in Arizona, but with the help of a coyote pup, he makes it across the border.

A colorful picture-and-word book all about the body and the things it can do -- from eating breakfast to running and dancing. Un colorido libro de imágenes y palabras sobre el cuerpo y lo que puede hacer: desayunar, correr, bailar y todo lo demás.

Poems in Spanish and English describe the author's boyhood as a refugee from rural El Salvador living in San Francisco, where he had to cope with a new language, a new culture, and a very different way of life.

A married couple's attempts at selling their New York apartment don't quite go as planned over the course of one crazy weekend.

Si yo fuera una oveja, tú serías un cordero. Si yo fuera una osa, tú serías un osenzo. Con su niño en brazos, una madre contempla cómo sería elamorentre ellos si fueran diferentes animales. Pero por mucho que cambien,no importa. Siempre serán "nosotros". Este cuento bilingüe es una oda eterna al lazo irrompibleentre madre e hijo. A moving bilingual ode to the unshakeable bond between a parent and child in the tradition of Runaway Bunny and...

Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...

A young Flobbit named Toto Baggypants inherits a special and powerful bean. With the help of a group of friends, Toto goes on an epic quest to discover how he should use his gift. The band of friends find many challenges along their way. Includes a "Silly songs with elves" session.