Maria Liatis
1) Sky color
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Series
Language
English
Description
Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But how can Marisol make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream.
2) Ish
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Series
Language
English
Description
Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere. Drawing is what Ramon does. It's what makes him happy. But in one split second, all that changes. A single reckless remark by Ramon's older brother, Leon, turns Ramon's carefree sketches into joyless struggles. Luckily for Ramon, though, his little sister, Marisol, sees the world differently. She opens his eyes to something a lot more valuable than getting things just "right." Combining the spareness...
3) The dot
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Series
Language
English
Description
Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you."Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can't draw - she's no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. "There!" she says. That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti's journey of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a girl is asked where she's from-where she'sï¿1/2reallyï¿1/2from-none of her answers seems to be the right one. Unsure about how to reply, she turns to her loving abuelo for help. He doesn't give her the response she expects. She gets an even better one. Where am I from? You're from hurricanes and dark storms, and a tiny singing frog that calls the island people home when the sun goes to sleep ... With themes of self-acceptance, identity,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ruby does NOT like bugs! Until she's forced to spend some time looking more closely at one ... A funny story for kids with big feelings and curious minds. When Ruby discovers a bug on her window one morning she FREAKS OUT! She loves animals, just NOT bugs! But no amount of blowing or squirting or yelling will get this bug to go away. It will get Ruby stuck in a time out. With lots of time to study Mr.Yuck-bug, Ruby grudgingly decides he may have...
Author
Series
Catalina incognito volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Catalina Castaęda uses Ta̕ Abuela's sewing kit to turn ordinary clothing into a magical disguise, enabling her to uncover a thief at the local library.
Catalina Castaneda is not persnickety, even though that's what her parents and sister, Coco, like to think. Catalina just likes things the way she likes them - perfect. That's why it's very hard to hide her disappointment when her glamorous Ta̕ Abuela, a famous telenovela actress,...
8) Bravo!
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Let's go! �Vamos! Let's look! �Mira! A brother and sister are on a treasure hunt. What will they find? And what will they do? What next? �Entonces? Join the search-in English and Spanish-and discover a celebration of friends and creativity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. To Marisol, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together. Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol -- can't she just choose one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries to put this biracial, Peruvian-Scottish-American girl...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
One night, while Dalia slept safely wrapped in her mother's cool silken sheets, her hair grew and grew. By the time the rooster crowed, her hair had "grown straight up to the sky, tall and thick as a Cuban royal palm tree." Her mother was amazed, and wondered what her daughter would do with her wondrous hair. As Dalia looked at the flowers blooming in the garden, an idea sprouted inside her. She decorated her hair with leaves from the forest and...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The inspiring and timely story of Sonia Sotomayor, who rose up from a childhood of poverty and prejudice to become the first Latino to be nominated to the US Supreme Court. Before Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took her seat in our nation's highest court, she was just a little girl in the South Bronx. Justice Sotomayor didn't have a lot growing up, but she had what she needed -- her mother's love, a will to learn, and her own determination....
12) Maya's blanket
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Maya has a special blanket that Grandma stitched with her own two hands. As Maya grows, her blanket becomes worn and frayed, so with Grandma's help, Maya makes it into a dress. Over time the dress is made into a skirt, a shawl, a scarf, a hair ribbon, and finally, a bookmark. Each item has special, magical, meaning for Maya; it animates her adventures, protects her, or helps her in some way. But when Maya loses her bookmark, she preserves her...
13) Fiesta!
Author
Language
English
Description
Follow an imaginative boy and his family as they take a faraway trip above the clouds and across the sea to visit his beloved grandma.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged))
Language
English
Description
"Still, silent water / starts to run / dancing over rocks, turning into song." Acclaimed children's book author Alma Flor Ada and her daughter Rosalma Zubizarreta-Ada share short poems for children about rivers and the life found along them. There are odes to cicadas, dragonflies, butterflies, fish, frogs and birds. "Dragonfly, / lovely fan of lace / wings fluttering / unceasingly, / above the river's water." These poems brim with the beauty of the...
15) She's got this
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
From gold-medal-winning Olympic gymnast and bestselling author Laurie Hernandez comes a picture book about chasing your dreams and never giving up. Even Olympians have to start somewhere. And in this charming illustrated book, Laurie Hernandez tells the story of Zoe, a little girl who dreams of flying-and becoming a gymnast. When Zoe sees a gymnast on TV, she realizes that gymnastics is just like flying. But when she first goes to class and falls...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Marisol is turning eight, and it's time to plan a birthday party that will be fabulous, marvelous, and divine. She also hopes that Abuelita, who lives far away in Peru, will be able to come to the celebration.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Sofi enters a New York City community garden and finds a half-painted mural. It's full of big, leafy plants in blue and yellow, and a vibrant emerald green color appears where the two colors meet. As Sofi runs her fingers over the image, she is suddenly transported to a beautiful place with plants just like the ones on the wall! Sofi finds herself in the Dominican Republic, where she meets a young boy named Juan Luis. He is writing a song,...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Oh, I had ten little puppies, Ten little puppies had I ... Count along in Spanish and English as each one of the ten adorable puppies disappears from the pages -- it's a bilingual bonanza!
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Everybody loves a birthday party, and there's a lot to enjoy at Papa Luis' fiesta! The children excitedly count the candy that will fill the pinata. The nieces bring the candles for the birthday cake that Mama Marta baked. Family and friends begin to arrive, and soon, they surprise Papa Luis with his special celebration. Told in lively verse, this cumulative tale builds from one page to the next as popular children's book author Diane Gonzales Bertrand...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"On Ana's first day of kindergarten, the slide stood like a mountain." The other kids in her class encourage her to glide "down, down, down, to the bottom and her new friends." Young readers will relate to these elementary school children playing outside. In first grade, Ana meets Karina, who becomes her best friend. Together, they swing higher and higher as they try to kick the sky! In second grade, Ana and her friends dangle like monkeys, eat pretend...