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Summary: To avoid being forced into the drug gang that has taken control of his Guatemalan village, thirteen-year-old Manuelito sets out on a hazardous journey to America in search of asylum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 741.5 AMAMachado, Ana Maria
Summary: A child decides to invite a few friends for a birthday party, encouraging guests to bring food and friends, but the guest list soon gets out of control and becomes the craziest, wildest party ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MACYockteng, Rafael
Summary: "This almost wordless picture book set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation. Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million and ten thousand years ago, small groups of people traveled their known world, hunting for food, seeking shelter, and slowly becoming more like the people we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOCArgueta, Jorge.
Summary: A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta's gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure -- avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor. As in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGCottin, Menena.
Summary: In a story where the text appears in white letters on a black background, as well as in braille, and the illustrations are also raised on a black surface, Thomas describes how he recognizes different colors using various senses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2008
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTLujan, Jorge
Summary: When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it. As she moves her known world, she discovers her own power and creates everything anew. The poem, written by Argentine poet Jorge Luj©Łn, comes from a culture saturated with magic, in which even the very young can make the world by reaching out and moving it. Mandana Sadat's imaginative illustrations deepen and enrich...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH LUJBuitrago, Jairo.
Summary: Don Apolinar urges Jimmy, who lives in a small Caribbean town where there is not much to do, to start training at the boxing gym and to read about Muhammad Ali. Jimmy begins to realize that he is a good boxer and finds that he would be happy running the gym and improving his hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BuitragoArgueta, Jorge
Summary: In this new cooking poem, Jorge Argueta brings us a fun and easy recipe for a yummy salsa. A young boy and his sister gather the ingredients and grind them up in a molcajete, just like their ancestors used to do, singing and dancing all the while.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: "A quirky and uplifting guide to making new friends for kids 4 to 7 from a beloved, internationally renowned author. What's the best way to make friends? Toad has the most magnificent ideas! Sometimes they don't go according to plan... but that's okay. Eventually Toad tires of making new friends, but comes to a marvelous conclusion: sometimes being with yourself is a good way to pass the time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUIIsol.
Summary: This alphabet book explores feelings, raises questions, and features rich, thought-provoking pictures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2016
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE ISOBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: A modern update on the classic fable of the lion and the mouse shares the relationship between two unlikely friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2019
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Summary: A little girl counts the things she sees as she and her father travel, sometimes on foot, sometimes on top of a train, and sometimes in other ways, stop while her father earns more money for the trip, and avoid soldiers and other dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUIBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: A little girl imagines a lion taking the place of her father who no longer lives with her family, an animal that keeps her safe on her travels from school to home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUIMachado, Ana Maria
Summary: Manny Wolf rewrites a help wanted ad, clarifying that a real wolf is needed so that a documentary can be made to show people what real wolves are like and how different they are from their big, bad fictional counterparts who've applied for the job.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2010