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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A scarecrow stood in the garden. Tall, proud, and smiling. Every day a girl brought her favorite books to the garden and she read to him. He heard tales of courage and of hope. And when she said, "The End," the scarecrow always felt a little bit taller and braver. Year after year, she came and she read to him. Until one spring, two different hands picked him up from the garden shed and placed him in the garden. He waited, but she didn't come to read...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"When Jyoti visits her grandmother halfway around the world, she is overwhelmed by the differences between India and home. At first she feels lonely and out of place, but soon, despite a language barrier, she and Sita Pati are able to understand each other. They form a bond—looking at books together, making designs with colored sand, shopping at the market, playing games, eating chapatis, and sipping warm milk with saffron to bring sweet dreams....
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Language
English
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Description
"Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown invites young readers to intentionally seek and celebrate all the wonderfully, marvelously shades of brown God used in the colorful world around them. Through the exploration of regions of the United States--from the Redwood forests in California and the rivers in Tennessee to the Grand Canyon and Florida reefs, from Mukluks in Alaska to Folklorico dancers in Texas, and many more--readers will marvel in the many wonderful...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A biography of immigrant scientist Gabriela Gonzalez, who, armed with modern technology, completed the work that Albert Einstein had begun one hundred years earlier, confirming his theory of gravitational waves and breaking new ground for space-time research.
11) A song of frutas
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
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Language
Español
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Description
Come along and sing with me! Sing along to your child's favorite songs, from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to "The Wheels on the Bus," in English and in Spanish! Accompanied by joyful, charming illustrations by Pura Belpre award winner Sara Palacios, this book is for every child who loves to sing, dance, and play.
15) 'Twas Nochebuena
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explores Latin American traditions for celebrating Christmas Eve in a text that combines English and Spanish words and follows the rhythm of Clement Moore's "The Night Before Christmas".
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As Lola helps her mother at the family's hotel, she learns about compassion, social injustice, and how one voice can lead to change. Includes author's note on Dolores Huerta, a labor organizer who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Agnes Pig and Clarabelle Chicken share their favorite activities for each season, from collecting hazelnuts in winter, to celebrating Clarabelle's birthday in spring, to spending a day at the beach in summer, to buying new sneakers in autumn.
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