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10 best books like My Name Is María Isabel (Alma Flor Ada): How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story, Apple Pie 4th of July, Felita, Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, The Composition, Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel, I Hate English!, America the Beautiful: Together We Stand, I Lost My Tooth In Africa, Sticks and Stones

How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0899195210
In my class this book was more relevant that it was when I was growing up. Many of my children were coming into our counry to escape the violence and hatred of their race or religion in the country of their birth. So many of my students lived with other family until they were able to get a place of their own. These...
Apple Pie 4th of July
AuthorJanet S. Wong
ISBN0152057080
A young girl - believing that the 4th of July is a time when people eat American foods like apple pie - tries to convince her parents that no one will be interested in the Chinese food they sell in their store. Despite her gloomy predictions - which seem, at first, to be borne out by the events of the day - they...
Felita
AuthorNicholasa Mohr
ISBN0141306432
Felita's parents promise she will love their new neighborhood. Only Abuelita, her grandmother, understands how much Felita will miss her old block, and her best friend Gigi. But her new neighbors taunt and tease Felita and her family because they are from Puerto Rico. First published twenty years...
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
AuthorKathleen Krull
ISBN0152014373
Cesar Chavez is known as one of America's greatest civil rights leaders. When he led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the lives of thousands of migrant farmworkers. But Cesar wasn't always a leader. As a boy, he was shy and teased at school. His family...
The Composition
AuthorAntonio Skármeta
ISBN0888995504
Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awarda and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title

Life is simple for Pedro -- he goes to school, does his homework and, most importantly, plays soccer. But when the soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things...
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN0399251758
Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that doesn't stop her from making a place for herself in a jiffy. With her can-do attitude and awesome brain power she takes the whole neighborhood by storm. The only thing puzzling her is the other new kid in her class. He's awfully grouchy - but Dyamonde's determined...
I Hate English!
AuthorEllen Levine
ISBN0590423045
"I Hate English" is a realistic-fiction book who tells the story in which a young girl Mei Mei hates English like the title suggests. She is a immigrant girl who just moved from Hong Kong. She misses everything that has to do with her hometown, but most importantly the language. She struggles throughout...
America the Beautiful: Together We Stand
AuthorKatharine Lee Bates
ISBN0545492076
A moving celebration of "America the Beautiful" featuring artwork from ten distinguished artists and inspiring presidential quotes!

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS AND NATIONAL SYMBOLS, ILLUSTRATED BY 10 AMERICAN ARTISTS

Each of our presidents has had a unique...
I Lost My Tooth In Africa
AuthorPenda Diakité
ISBN0439662265
Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist Baba Wague Diakite and his 12-year-old daughter, Penda, create a charming, original adventure story about losing a first tooth while visiting family in Mali.

More than anything, Amina wants to lose her loose tooth while visiting her family in Mali,...
Sticks and Stones
AuthorBeth Goobie
ISBN1551432137
Jujube is thrilled when Brent asks her out. She is not so happy when the rumors start flying at school. Pretty soon her name is showing up on bathroom walls and everyone is snickering and sniping. When her mother gets involved, Jujube's reputation takes another hit. Deciding that someone has to take a...
The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos
AuthorLucia M. Gonzalez
ISBN0892392223
It is the winter of 1929, and cousins Hildamar and Santiago have just moved to enormous, chilly New York from their native Puerto Rico. As Three Kings' Day approaches, Hildamar and Santiago mourn the loss of their sunny home and wonder about their future in their adopted city. But when a storyteller and...
Alone in His Teacher's House
AuthorLouis Sachar
ISBN0679819495
This is the fourth book in the Marvin Redpost series. It is a dramatic tale that shows Marvin being responsible for taking care of his teacher's dog while she is away and his experiences with the substitute teacher.

I appreciated that this book gave me an opportunity to talk with our girls about...
Zap! I'm A Mind Reader
AuthorDan Greenburg
ISBN0448412632
Zack is a regular kid, but his situations are anything but ordinary. This series with lots of light intersections into the paranormal, supernatural, and fantastical is good for an occasional, not-too-serious laugh. In this one, Zack gets an electric shock and suddenly is able to hear thoughts, but...
The Most Beautiful Place in the World
AuthorAnn Cameron
ISBN0394804244
"Seven-year-old Juan lives in Guatemala, a place of stunning beauty and grim economic reality. Abandoned by his mother, Juan lives with his grandmother and shines shoes. He passionately wants to attend school, but fears Grandmother will say no. Finally gathering his courage, he is surprised when...
How Oliver Olson Changed the World
AuthorClaudia Mills
ISBN0374334870
Oliver Olson's teacher is always saying that one person with a big idea can change the world. But how is Oliver supposed to change the world when his parents won't let him do anything on his own—not his class projects or even attending activities such as the space sleepover at school. Afraid he will become...
black is brown is tan
AuthorArnold Adoff
ISBN0064432696
Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children...
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
AuthorMildred Pitts Walter
ISBN0679803467
Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction *Free Choice
Award: Corretta Scott King
Audience: 3rd-6th
A. The main character, Justin, is a 10 year old boy that has his fair share of troubles. He struggles with normal kid things, like his parents being hard on him and setting expectations.
B....
My Dadima Wears a Sari
AuthorKashmira Sheth
ISBN1561453927
Every day, Rupa's grandmother wears a beautiful Indian sari. Each is brightly colored and very beautiful. "Don't you ever want to wear a gray skirt and red blouse with round buttons like Mommy or a green dress like me?" Rupa asks. But Dadima prefers to wear her traditional saris. She shares with her granddaughter...
Sitti's Secrets
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0689817061
A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance.

Mona’s grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her.

The couldn’t speak each other’s language, so they made up their own. They learned...
My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aquí hasta allá
AuthorAmada Irma Pérez
ISBN0892391758
This richly and evocatively illustrated dual-language picture book (with Maya Christina Gonzalez' brilliantly colouful, lushly descriptive accompanying illustrations truly being redolent of the colours, the very feeling of Mexico, of Latino/Latina culture in general) tells the story of author...
Clemente!
AuthorWillie Perdomo
ISBN0805082247
A little boy named Clemente learns about his namesake, the great baseball player Roberto Clemente, in this joyful picture book biography.
Born in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente was the first Latin American player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the only player for whom the five-year...
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa
AuthorErica Silverman
ISBN0152056602
A Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book Hold on to your hats! Two new pals have arrived on the scene: Cowgirl Kate and her stubborn, but devoted cowhorse, Cocoa. Together they count the herd, ride the range, and, of course, argue till the cows come home--as only best friends can do.

With its...
Hairs/Pelitos
AuthorSandra Cisneros
ISBN0679890076
This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us.

A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish.

A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year

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