latinos (u.s.)

Young Margarito doesn't believe his Grandpa Ventura's ghost stories, until one day while walking home from his grandfather's he sees a woman in white, La Llorona, who calls to him. Scared, Margarito hides behind a tree, until from the water comes the Donkey Lady, who proceeds to fight La Llorona over who gets to claim Margarito as her next victim.

T?o Ram?n, a snow cone vendor, has a special surprise for Teresita's seventh birthday.

When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.

Describes the history of the civil rights movement among Latinos in the United States and Latinos’ political efforts for equal rights and education.

Emma and her friends in the Las Palomas dance troop are asked to perform in the Thanksgiving Day Parade, but first Emma needs to solve the mystery of their special drum that went missing.

Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.

A collection of over fifty short essays written by Latino youth in which they reflect on growing up in the United States.

When her blind dog slips his collar, 12-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.

Presents a collection of articles that survey the broad spectrum of the Latino experience in the United States, providing a multicultural perspective on a wide range of topics, including information on the life, history, and culture of the Latino people and the contributions of Latino culture on the West.

The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.