hispanic americans

A little boy named Paco tells about how homesick he was when he and his family moved from Guatemala to the United States and shares his thoughts and fears of learning a new language and getting used to strange customs.

Presents a comprehensive guide for helping African-American and Hispanic students achieve academic success and examines strategies for effective leadership, curriculum, and classroom instruction.

Contains over one hundred loose-leaf, reproducible pages that provide maps, graphs, drawings, photographs, and other graphic sources of information on the history of the Hispanic-American people; grouped chronologically in six historical eras, with an introductory overview.

Three outstanding Hispanic American leaders from the fields of medicine, business and politics decribe their own rise to eminence and the efforts they made to achieve their goals; they demonstrate what Hispanics are capable of achieving.

Provides bibliographical information on more than 11,000 prominent Hispanic Americans from a broad range of professions and occupations. Includes occupation, geographic and ethnic / cultural heritage indexes.

A selection of representative works by twenty-one Hispanic writers of short fiction in the United States.

Presents an overview of the holiday's celebrated by Hispanic-Americans, arranged by season, including information on the traditions, customs, and history of weddings, festivals, birthdays, and other special occasions.

Collection of 135 works exploring the impact of Latino culture on American society.