Alma Flor Ada

Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Peruvian and Japanese. Each of them is also Latino. Thirteen young Latinos and Latinas living in America are introduced in this book celebrating the rich diversity of the Latino and Latina experience in the United States. Free-verse fictional narratives from the perspective of each youth provide specific...

Includes eleven stories about the relatives and friends that were part of the author's childhood in Cuba.

Third grader Maria Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.

The author recalls her life and impressions growing up in Cuba.

A book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet.

The author of My Name Is Maria Isabel offers an inspiring look at her childhood in Cuba in this collection that includes Where the Flame Trees Bloom, Under the Royal Palms, five new stories, and more. These true autobiographical tales from renowned Hispanic author and educator Alma Flor Ada are filled with family love and traditions, secrets and deep friendships, and a gorgeous, moving picture of the island of Cuba, where Alma Flor grew up. Told through...

A traditional Mexican folktale in which a faithful lizard finds the sun, which brings light and warmth back to the world.

Diez perritos se van, uno tras uno, por varias razones, hasta que queda sólo un perrito. Ten little puppies are lost, one by one, for different reasons, until only one little puppy remains.

During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.