Using the building verse of "The House that Jack Built," a farm girl creates a piñata of papier mâché with the help of a boy and the animals on the farm. Includes a glossary of Spanish words, and a step-by-step guide to building your own piñata.

A young girl sets out on errands for the day, and while she's gone, the farm maiden prepares a piñata from scratch with help from a boy, horse, goose, cat, sheep, and farmer. After they all fall asleep in the afternoon sun, they must scramble to finish preparations in time-just as the girl arrives back to her surprise party. Key English words change to Spanish as the cumulative verse builds to the celebratory ending. With the familiarity of The House...

Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntarily almost as rude, turned suddenly from him, walking forward to accost one of the Spanish seamen for the desired information. But he had hardly gone five paces, when with a sort of eagerness Don Benito invited...

When a diamond goes missing from the Louvre, it is up to nine-year-old Julieta to identify the thief, exonerate her father, and return home to Boston before her baby brother is born. Includes glossary of French and Spanish words and notes about the Regent Diamond, Athena, and works of art mentioned in the book.

It was the summer of '71. A time of muscle cars, long chromed choppers, bell-bottom blue jean girls, and great rock music. The country was still simmering from the aftermath of the turbulent sixties, and the influential excesses of a rebellious Woodstock generation had filtered down to an impressionable small town America. Jack Dean had it all: youth, good looks, football star, even the beautiful Spanish exchange student. For Jack and his buddies,...

The unlikely yet inspiring true story of a one room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their innovative teacher find their voices and speak truth to power. Formed in 2010, Still Waters in a Storm, is an after-school program in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Run by Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, two dozen kids aged 5-17 meet six times a week to analyze classics like Paradise Lost, play the violin, write music, and study Latin....

The Upper East Siders are working together to find Serena who has gone off the grid. Her friends fear for the worst, but even they can't imagine where to find her. Blair has offered Chuck her heart, but is her love enough to help win back his empire? Dan has written a new book that promises to make more trouble and this time he has no desire to remain anonymous. Nate is determined to finally reveal the true identity of Gossip Girl, thereby making...

Everyone's favorite socialites are back to their wicked ways. Suntanned Serena has found the perfect summer job in Los Angeles when Chuck and Nate pay her a visit. Back on the Upper East Side, Blair is still dealing with the impossible choice between Prince Louis and Chuck, and Dan's world is suddenly shattered when he discovers that someone has gone behind his back and found an editor to anonymously publish one of his stories.

After being gone for a decade a country star returns home to the love he left behind.

When the prettiest girl in fifth-grade asks sleuth Mickey Rangel to prove her innocent of stealing a valuable pen, he ignores his instincts and takes the case, aided by a note from an unknown "angel."