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National Education Association's Bilingual Booklist

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Local News

by Gary Soto

A collection of thirteen short stories about the everyday lives of Mexican American young people in California's Central Valley.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Call Me Consuelo

by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman

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.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

The Composition

by Antonio Skármeta

In a village in Chile, Pedro and Daniel are two typical nine-year-old boys. Up until Daniel's father gets arrested, their biggest worry had been how to improve their soccer skills. Now, they are thrust into a situation where they must grapple with the incomprehensible: dictatorship and its inherent abuses. "The Composition" is a winner of the Americas Award for Children's Literature and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

The Secret of Two Brothers

by Irene Beltrán Hernández

21-year-old Beaver tries to create a decent life for himself and his brother following his mother's death and his own stint in prison. The story explores maintaining a family against difficult odds and trying to live an honorable life.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Baseball in the Barrios

by Henry Horenstein

Join nine-year-old Hubaldo Romero Páez in Venezuela as he introduces his friends, his family, and his favorite sport -- baseball. Complemented by a map and an English-Spanish baseball glossary, Hubaldo's story is an inviting introduction to a foreign land viewed through the lens of a shared passion.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Beisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends

by Jonah Winter

This tribute to 14 Latino baseball legends, designed like a collection of baseball cards, features portraits and profiles of some of the sport's greatest players from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Béisbol en abril y otras historias

by Gary Soto

No disponible

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Going Home

by Nicholasa Mohr

Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico for the first time, eleven-year-old Felita finds herself having to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Fitting In

by Anilú Bernardo

Anilu Bernardo's spunky Cuban-American protagonists navigate the uncertain waters of adolescence in Miami, and their lot is all that much harder as they juggle the traditional burdens of middle school and high school coupled with the stresses of living those burdens in a foreign culture. This edition includes a study guide.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly

by Juan Felipe Herrera

A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Alicia Alonso

by Sandra Martin Arnold

A biography of the Cuban ballerina who founded her own ballet school and company, performed with the Ballet Russe, and continued to dance even after she lost her sight.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

¡Béisbol! Pioneros y leyendas del béisbol latino

by Jonah Winter and Enrique Del Risco

Béisbol es muy popular en América Latina y muchos de los mejores jugadores del deporte crecían sur de la frontera. Este libro hace reseñas biográficas de catorce de estas gran estrellas quienes jugaban desde 1900 a las 1960s. El libro se inspiró en las tarjetas tradicionales de béisbol y contiene estadísticas y anécdotas sobre catorce jugadores pioneros latinos. Empezó con Dolf Luque, el lanzador cubano quien era el primero estrello latinoamericano en las ligas mayores, y terminó con Roberto Clemente, el legendario jardinero puertorriqueño de los 1950s y los 1960s. Béisbol! también cuenta los desafíos de ser un jugador latino y como estos jugadores contribuyeron a la historia de béisbol. Será una adquisición bienvenida a cualquier colección sobre béisbol. School Library Journal

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Beisbol en los Barrios

by Henry Horenstein

Hubaldo Antonio Romero Páez nos presenta a su familia, a su país y, más importante, a su deporte preferido, el béisbol. El libro consciene una carta y un glosario inglés-espavol sobre el beisbol. [The Spanish-language edition of Baseball in the Barrios. Join nine-year-old Hubaldo Romero Paacute in Venezuela as he introduces his friends, his family, and his favorite sport--baseball. Complemented by a map and an English-Spanish baseball glossary, Hubaldo's story is an inviting introduction to a foreign land viewed through the lens of a shared passion.]

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Felita

by Nicholasa Mohr

The everyday experiences of an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl growing up in a close-knit, urban community.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Mi Hija, Mi Hijo/El Águila, La Paloma

by Ana Castillo

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Platero y yo / Platero and I

by Myra Cohn Livingston and Juan Ramón Jiménez and Joseph F. Domínguez

In English and Spanish, this book presents a picture of life in the town of Moguer, in Andalusia, Spain, as seen through the eyes of a wandering poet and his faithful donkey.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 5-8

Pacific Crossing

by Gary Soto

Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up

Rain of Gold

by Victor Edmundo Villaseñor

The book follows two people and their families’ different journeys through the hard times of the Mexican Revolution and into U.S. and the different lives waiting for them. They meet new challenges and learn to adjust there.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up

Taking Sides

by Gary Soto

Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up

...Y no se lo tragó la tierra

by Tomás Rivera

No disponible, not available

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up

Silent Dancing

by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Silent Dancing is about a young girl as she struggles through life, constantly being moved from the U.S. to Puerto Rico, and back again.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up

Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya

This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life (Denver Post). Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past--a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world... and will nurture the birth of his soul.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up

Cien Años de Soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez

1967. En Buenos Aires aparece la novela de un escritor colombiano de cuarenta años. No queda hoy lengua literaria a la que no haya sido traducida.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up

La casa en Mango Street

by Elena Poniatowska and Sandra Cisneros

La casa en Mango Street es la historia de una chica que mueve a una casa nueva en Mango Street pero no quiere vivir en el barrio.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up

El Loro en el Horno

by Analia Bermejo and Victor Martinez

Manny Hernandez es un joven de 14 anos que debe enfrentarse a ese momento crucial en su vida.

Winner of the Pura Belpre Medal

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Category: Grades 9 and up


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