Pam Muñoz Ryan
Author
Language
English
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
4) Mañanaland
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
9) Tony Baloney
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Tony, a macaroni penguin, is a middle child with very exasperating siblings, and although he never looks for trouble, it often finds him.
10) Hello Ocean
Author
Publisher
Talewinds
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experience through each of her five senses.
11) The dreamer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
12) Esperanza renace
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
13) Mice and beans
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.
16) Pen pal
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Tony Baloney and his school are celebrating pen pal month! Big Sister Baloney says her pen pal is always a friend for life. Tony Baloney hopes his pen pal will be a friend for life, too!"--Page [4] of cover.
17) Nacho and Lolita
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A very rare pitacohi bird falls in love with a swallow and plucks his colorful feathers to transform dry, barren San Juan Capistrano into a haven of flowers and flowing water, which the swallows can easily find when returning from their annual migration.
18) Paint the wind
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
19) Mud is cake
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything.