Max's friend Lily invites him to her family's celebration of Chinese New Year.

Max likes riding the bus to and from school.

A Hispanic family enjoys the traditional celebration of El Diá de los Reyes, or Epiphany, by reenacting the long walk of the three wise men bringing gifts to baby Jesus.

On Pirate Day at school, all the children dress up as pirates, and Pedro and his friends, Katie and JoJo, continue the theme in their clubhouse after school--but they all want to be the pirate captain. ¡Arrr! Es el Día del Pirata en la escuela. Pedro y sus compañeras se divierten tanto fingiendo ser piratas en la escuela que siguen el juego en casa. ¿Cuál es el único problema? Todos quieren ser el capitán del barco.

Miss Winkle separates the class into teams and instructs them to build towers out of paper cups, and the group who builds the tallest tower wins--but they have very little success until Pedro has an idea about how it can be done. La clase de Pedro está construyendo una torre de vasos de cartón para ver quien puede hacer la torre más alta. A Pedro le encanta construir, pero tiene un gran problema. ¡Roddy, el Alborotador, esta en su equipo! ¿Podrán...

Pedro would love to be the goalie in the team's first game, but another boy is bigger--so all his friends come over to help him practice before the tryout. A Pedro le encantaría ser el arquero en el primer juego del equipo, pero otro chico es más grande--así que todos sus amigos vienen a ayudarle a practicar antes de la prueba.

Brothers Pablo and Carlitos write letters to the three kings, telling them the gifts they want to receive on Three Kings' Day. Includes facts about Christmas and Three Kings' Day.

Account of Latino displacement throughout the world; decentralization manifested in movement, transference and substitution. The principle characters circulate and circumnavigate within multiple geographic, political, historical and social spheres pertaining to the ever-changing Hispanic reality.

At private school, Lucas compares his home life with the supposedly perfect lives of the other students.

After helping her grandfather plant squash, onions, carrots, cabbage, and other vegetables that her mother uses in soups and salsas, seven-year-old Marisol plants sunflower seeds in her neighbors' yards, and weeks later, everyone gets to enjoy the fruits of Marisol's labor.