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Americanized: rebel without a green card
Par Sara Saedi. 2018
Television show writer and novelist recounts her teenage years in the 1990s, and reveals how she discovered that her family…
had entered the United States as undocumented immigrants. Provides a humorous account of balancing teen angst with trying to become an American citizen. For senior high and older readers. 2018Bravo!: poems about amazing Hispanics
Par Margarita Engle, illustrations by Rafael Lopez. 2017
Un buen hijo de p: una fá́bula (Vintage español)
Par Ismael Cala. 2014
El periodista y presentador del programa "CNN en Español" presenta una fábula moderna a través de la historia y conversaciones…
de dos personajes, Arturo y Chris. Cala postula que sólo nosotros mismos tenemos el poder para transformar nuestras vidas, y que a través de las tres pes--pasión, paciencia y perseverancia--todo es posibleThe great Alaska adventure!: Junior Explorer Series Book 2
Par Jeff Corwin. 2010
Nine-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister Lucy join their parents on a weeklong research trip to Alaska. Benjamin observes the…
effects of climate change on glaciers and animals in a report for his school in Florida. For grades 2-4. 2010A feast of freedom: tasty tidbits from the City Tavern
Par Walter Staib, Jennifer Fox, Fernando Juarez. 2010
The Michigan reader for boys and girls: For Boys and Girls (Readers Ser.)
Par Kathy-Jo Wargin, K. L. Darnell. 2001
Where are all the Minnesotans?
Par Carrie Hartman, Karlyn Coleman, K. R. Coleman. 2017
Minnesotans are a hardy lot, undaunted by snow and cold. Armed with wool and fleece, they embrace the winter season…
and all the opportunities for adventure, activity, and celebration it brings. For preschool-grade 2Drum dream girl: how one girl's courage changed music
Par Margarita Engle, Rafael López. 2015
In Cuba in the 1930s, music filled the air. Millo had a dream playing drums of all kinds, but the…
country and her father only permitted boys to play drums. Millo finds a way to drum and practices in secret. Eventually her father relents and hires a music teacher for her. Millo's persistance means that she and her sisters become the first all-girl dance band in Cuba and play with and for famous people. (Story inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga.) For grades K-3Zane and the hurricane: a story of Katrina
Par Rodman Philbrick, W. R. Philbrick. 2014
Elizabeth, queen of the seas
Par Lynne Cox, Brian Floca. 2014
Describes how an elephant seal made a home in New Zealand's narrow Avon River and loved to stretch out across…
a two-lane road, requiring volunteers to tow her farther out to sea after she kept returning repeatedly. For preschool-grade 2Lighthead: Poems (Penguin poets)
Par Terrance Hayes. 2010
The fourth collection by the author portrays the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Hayes…
navigates melancholy, irreverence, and the sublime, and cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. Award winner. Strong language, some violence, some descriptions of sex. 2010Tap tap boom boom
Par G. Brian Karas, Elizabeth Bluemle. 2014
Tap tap boom boom got a storm in bloom. Its a mad dash for shelter as rain sweeps into an…
urban neighborhood. Where to go? The subway? It's the perfect place to wait out wind and weather. Strangers share smiles and umbrellas and take delight in the experience of a city thunderstorm. Boom, Boom! Award winner. For preschool-grade 2Arrow to Alaska: a Pacific Northwest adventure
Par Hannah Viano. 2015
Arrow, a young boy who lives in Seattle, goes on an adventure to visit his grandfather in Alaska aboard Aunt…
Kelly's salmon boat. He spends time with Grampy on his float house in Alaska, then returns to Seattle on a friend's seaplane. For grades K-3The disappearing island
Par Ted Lewin, Corinne Demas. 2000
In this sunny and evocative book, an eight-year-old and her grandmother explore an island off the coast of Cape Cod…
that was once full of people but now only appears during low tide. For grades 2-4Razia's ray of hope: one girl's dream of an education (CitizenKid)
Par Suana Verelst, Elizabeth Suneby. 2013
Beowulf
Par Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman. 2006
A retelling in prose of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the great warrior Beowulf's heroic efforts to save the people of…
Heorot Hall from several terrifying monsters, including Grendel; Grendel's mother, an old sea-hag; and the death-dragon of the deep. For grades 6-9. 2006American dragons: twenty-five Asian American voices
Par Laurence Yep. 1993
An anthology of twenty-five stories, poems, and essays by Asian Americans that enlighten, probe, and examine the experiences and emotions…
of young people with roots in Japan, China, India, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Selections are set in the past, present, and future, and most raise questions about identity and about preserving or rejecting the values of ancestors. For junior and senior high readersThe Calypso alphabet
Par John Agard, Jennifer Bent. 1989
Baseball in April and other stories
Par Gary Soto. 1990
Eleven vignettes set in central California feature young Mexican-Americans going about the business of growing up. Fausto, who longs for…
a guitar, fraudulently receives a hefty reward when he returns a stray pet to a wealthy neighbor, but he is guilt-ridden until he relinquishes the money in church. And Marie, who declines a boring family vacation, is angry that fun was had without her. For grades 5-8 and older readersThe contender
Par Robert Lipsyte. 1993
A seventeen-year-old Harlem boy has a driving ambition to become a boxing champion. After long and challenging training, he learns…
that winning is not the only prerequisite for the title. For high school and adult readers