My Very Own Room
10 best books like My Very Own Room (Amada Irma Pérez): Duck for Turkey Day, Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving, Come On, Rain!, My Colors, My World, Dumpling Soup, Tomás and the Library Lady, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale, Chato and the Party Animals, Elizabeti's Doll, Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico
| Author | Jacqueline Jules |
| ISBN | 0807517348 |
It's almost Thanksgiving, and Tuyet is excited about the holiday and the vacation from school. There's just one problem: her Vietnamese American family is having duck for Thanksgiving dinner - not turkey! Nobody has duck for Thanksgiving - what will her teacher and the other kids think? To her surprise,...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0152018174 |
In 1620 an English ship called the Mayflower landed on the shores inhabited by the Pokanoket people, and it was Squanto who welcomed the newcomers and taught them how to survive in the rugged land they called Plymouth. He showed them how to plant corn, beans, and squash, and how to hunt and fish. And when...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0590331256 |
I love the colors of this book. It’s about a time that I really don’t like; those hot muggy days you can hardly breath and people are praying for rain to keep things from dying. I can’t stand that time. It makes me want to live in Scotland.
A Mama is taking care of her wilting plants and a girl...
| Author | Maya Christina González |
| ISBN | 0892392215 |
Little Maya longs to find brilliant, beautiful, inspiring color in her world....but Maya's world, the Mojave Desert, seems to be filled with nothing but sand. With the help of a feathered friend, she searches everywhere to discover color in her world. In the brilliant purple of her mother's flowers,...
| Author | Jama Kim Rattigan |
| ISBN | 0316730475 |
This story was about a seven year old Asian-American girl whose name is Marisa and she is from Hawaii and all her New Year family traditions. Every year on New Year, Marisa’s family comes together from all over Hawaii to eat dumpling soup and on New Year’s Eve, all the women in the family get together...
Tomás and the Library Lady
| Author | Pat Mora |
| ISBN | 0613283627 |
A young Texan finds refuge in his new Iowa town's library, where the librarian offers him cool comfort from hot summer days and whirlwind adventures through reading. Colon's beautiful scratchboard illustrations, in his textured, glowingly colored, rhythmic style, capture the warmth and the dreams...
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
I have read many books by world-renowned children’s book author, Demi, but I have not gotten around to reviewing any of Demi’s books yet. “One Grain of Rice” is the first book by Demi that I am reviewing and it is a folktale from India that is about a young woman named Rani who tries to trick...
Chato and the Party Animals
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0399231595 |
Chato, the coolest cat in el barrio, loves to party--but not his best buddy, Novio Boy. Birthday parties always make him blue. "I'm from the pound," he tells Chato. "I don't know when I was born. I never knew my mami. I never even had a birthday party, or nothing."So Chato plans the coolest surprise party...
| Author | Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen |
| ISBN | 1584300817 |
Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can care for the way her mother cares for the new baby. After looking around her village, Elizabeti finds the perfect doll to love, and names her Eva.
When Mama changes the new baby's diaper, Elizabeti changes Eva....
| Author | Verna Aardema |
| ISBN | 0679889361 |
Petra Mather's illustrations are bright, and actually rather sweet, if not cute, and I do much appreciate the idea that a little lamb is able to cunningly outsmart a cunning and stalking coyote (the coyote reminds me a bit of the big bad wolf, so common in European folktales and culture). That being said,...
| Author | Penda Diakité |
| ISBN | 0439662265 |
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,...
| Author | Monica Brown |
| ISBN | 0873589084 |
Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel García Márquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He...
| Author | Yuyi Morales |
| ISBN | 0811837580 |
In this original trickster tale, Senor Calavera arrives unexpectedly at Grandma Beetle's door. He requests that she leave with him right away. "Just a minute," Grandma Beetle tells him. She still has one house to sweep, two pots of tea to boil, three pounds of corn to make into tortillas -- and that's...
| Author | Carmen Lomas Garza |
| ISBN | 0892392061 |
Sandra Lomas Garza depicts scenes from her working-class childhood in Family Pictures / Cuadros de Familia She also did this in another similar picture for children (and adults) In My Family/En mi familia.
This year, I am doing an informal study of What Does IT Mean to be Hispanic, my reading thread...
| Author | Nancy Andrews-Goebel |
| ISBN | 1584300388 |
Juan Quezada is the premier potter in Mexico. With local materials and the primitive methods of the Casas Grandes people -- including using human hair to make brushes and cow manure to feed the flames that fire his pots -- Juan creates stunning pots in the traditional style. Each is a work of art unlike...
| Author | Pam Muñoz Ryan |
| ISBN | 0439701368 |
Category: Family
Recipe for a Festive Story Time: Mix 1 birthday party, 1 delicious Mexican meal, and lots of children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, and surprise guests into a fun romp. Add comic illustrations, jaunty rhythms, and playful refrains. Spice with mystery, and stir...
| Author | Katie Smith Milway |
| ISBN | 1554534887 |
Eleven-year-old María Luz and her family live on a small farm. This year their crop is poor, and they may not have enough to eat or to sell for other essentials, such as health care, school uniforms and books.
When María's father must leave home to find work, she is left in charge of their garden....
| Author | Karen Chinn |
| ISBN | 1880000539 |
Sam can hardly wait to go shopping with his mom. It's Chinese New Year's day and his grandparents have given him the traditional gift of lucky money-red envelopes called leisees (lay-sees). This year Sam is finally old enough to spend it any way he chooses. Best of all, he gets to spend his lucky money in...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0064435091 |
“A joyous tale of a Mexican American family's Christmastime trip to the parents' home in Mexico.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Christmas is coming, and Carlos and his family are going home—driving south across the border to Mexico. But Mexico doesn't seem like home to Carlos,...
What Can You Do with a Paleta?
| Author | Carmen Tafolla |
| ISBN | 1582462216 |
Where the paleta wagon rings its tinkly belland carries a treasure of icy paletasin every color of the sarape . . .
As she strolls through her barrio, a young girl introduces readers to the frozen, fruit-flavored treat that thrills Mexican and Mexican-American children. Create a masterpiece,...
A Thousand Shades of Blue
| Author | Robin Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1551439212 |
A sailing trip to the Caribbean might sound great, but sixteen-year-old Rachel can't stand being trapped on a small boat with her family. She misses her best friend and feels guilty about leaving her older sister Emma, who lives in a group home. Her father is driving her crazy with his schedules and rules,...
