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Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Titles for Children
Pride Month - Children
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Titles for Children
Pride Month - Children
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While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for...
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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.
85) Pedro el ninja
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Pedro enters the same karate class that his friends Katie and JoJo attend, and learns some of the ninja moves that he admires in the movies.
¡Ji YA! Cuando Pedro ve un dibujo animado sobre ninjas, tiene muchos deseos de ser un ninja. Por eso está muy entusiasmado cuando su papá lo lleva a tomar lecciones de karate. Tiene Pedro todo lo que necesita para ser un ninja?
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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.
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[2015]
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"Nikko's mother wants him to stop jumping on his bed, but he's not jumping on his bed, as he tried to convince her. Instead there are luchadors, masked wrestlers, trying to fight him one at a time. In the end, of course, Nikko is the winner: the great and mightly Nikko!"--
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[2019]
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Pepe, who is Mexican American, enjoys participating in a festival celebrating his heritage and that of his family and friends, who are from Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and many other countries. Includes author's note about Hispanic American History month and the difference between the terms Hispanic and Latino.
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Pedro collects a lot of different bugs for a class assignment, but when his brother lets them out in the house their parents are furious, and ban any further collecting.
Pedro tiene la mejor tarea para la escuela: coleccionar insectos y elegir uno sobre el cual escribir. Llena un frasco con cada hormiga, catarina y escarabajo que encuentra. Pero se desata el caos cuando su hermano, Paco, ¡los deja escapar a todos!
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[2008]
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Little Quinito and his family take the reader through a day filled with opposites, including short/tall, quiet/loud, and rainy/sunny.
Quinito y su familia conducen al lector por un día lleno de opuestos, inclusos bajo y alto, callado y ruidoso, y lluvioso y soleado.
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Pedro forms a new club with his friends dedicated to solving mysteries--and the first two assignments are finding his mother's locket, and his father's cell phone.
Pedro forma un nuevo Club con sus amigos dedicados a resolver misterios--y las dos primeras asignaciones están encontrando el medallón de su madre, y el celular de su padre.
94) Pedro el pirata
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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.
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Pedro and his friend Katie Woo are both running for class president. Pedro knows he can do great things for his class, if only he gets past that speech!
Pedro y su amiga Katie Woo se postulan para Presidente de la clase. Pedro sabe que puede hacer grandes cosas para su clase, ¡ si sólo él consigue pasar ese discurso!
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Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister Pili there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another his faith begins to...
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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...
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