Hispanic Heritage Month

2) Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras

"A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly illustrated story will spark lasting conversations about cross-cultural relationships, the importance of oral storytelling, and what it means to be a lifelong learner."--Page [4] of cover.

Author

Rodríguez, Nelson

Series

Stories from Latin America

Description

Stories from Latin America

A beautiful, empowering story about the impact of literacy in underprivileged communities, based on a real bookmobile program in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Luis's favorite day of the week is Monday, the day the bookmobile comes to his neighborhood. In Villa Nueva, sad stories can gather like dark, stormy clouds. But at the bookmobile, Luis hears stories that burst with life, laughter, and color. Maybe today will bring a song or a puppet show! He might...

3) 9 kilometers

Author

Aguilera, Claudio

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Book, eBook

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4) Different: a story of the Spanish Civil War

"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--

Author

Montañés, Mónica

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Book, eBook

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5) Building an Orchestra of Hope: How Favio Chavez Taught Children to Make Music from Trash

"During the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, siblings Soccoro and Paco must live with constant secrets while they wait to reunite with their father, who fled Spain due to political persecution."--

Author

Oliver, Carmen

Formats:

eBook, Kindle

Description

An exuberantly illustrated true story about innovation, community, and the power of music.
In Cateura, Paraguay, a town built on a landfill, music teacher Favio Chavez longed to help the families living and working amid the hills of trash. How could he help them find hope for the future? Favio started giving music lessons to Cateura’s children, but soon he encountered a serious problem. He had more students than instruments!
But...

6) ¡Vamos! Let's Go Read

Author

Third, Raúl the

Description

7) ¡Vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos: A Halloween and Day of the Dead Celebration

Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival that the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and La Chida each find the book of their dreams? Full...

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Third, Raúl the

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From New York Times bestselling, three-time award-winning author-illustrator “Raúl the Third”, “¡Vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween” and “Día de los Muertos” follows Little Lobo and friends on a Halloween and Día de los Muertos adventure in the first World of ¡Vamos! holiday book! Little Lobo is celebrating two big holidays this fall! On Halloween, Little Lobo and his friends dress up in costumes, trick-or-treat for candy, and share...

8) El toro & friends: Tacos today

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9) My Party, Mi Fiesta: A Coco Rocho Book

It's lunchtime for young El Toro and his friends--and each one is looking forward to a different kind of taco, their favorite! The luchadores take a break from their training and head into town to eat. When they count their lunch money and discover they don't have enough for tacos, they will have to work together on a creative, fun solution to earn plenty of dinero for a delicious all-you-can-eat spectacular! Flavored with Spanish phrases and topped...

Author

Third, Raúl the

Description

In this festive bilingual board book, join Coco Rocho and his friends as they gather all the things they need to throw a grand fiesta! Throwing a party is always fun, especially when it's in both English and Spanish! In this new board book by Pura Belpré Honor-winning Raúl the Third, young readers are introduced to Spanish vocabulary through all the fun of a party. Friends, cake, music-amigos, pastel, musica-join Coco Rocho and all his companions...

10) Training Day: El Toro & Friends

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eComic, Kindle

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"Bursting with imagination and creativity! Your kids will go loco for El Toro!" —Jeff Kinney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

From New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award–winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third, Training Day finds El Toro preparing for his wrestling match in Spanish and English in this graphic-novel-style El Toro &

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11) ¡Vamos! Let's go to the market

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World of ¡Vamos!

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Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.

12) ¡Vamos! Let's go eat!

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World of ¡Vamos!

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Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabé, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000.

13) Believe your eyes

Author

Doerrfeld, Cori

Series

Cici a fairy's tale volume 1

Description

A lot is changing for Cici. Her parents are separating, her wacky abuela is moving in, and on her tenth birthday, she wakes up with fairy wings! Cici's new magical powers let her see people as they truly are. But what she learns about her friends and family isn't always easy to accept. She has only one day to decide whether to keep her wings. When Cici wishes life could just be normal again, will she choose to believe in the power of fairies?

14) Mani Semilla finds her Quetzal voice

Author

Lapera, Anna

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Manuela "Mani" Semilla wants two things: to get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala, a place that has always been more of a mystery than an answer. Mani can't imagine leaving behind Las Nerdas, her band of misfit friends, for the summer. But after she finds letters written between her mother and her disappeared-journalist aunt, Mani's idea of what it means to be a woman takes flight. Reading the letters reveals both...

15) Salsa magic

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Marrero, Letisha

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Thirteen-year-old Maya Beatriz Montenegro Calderon has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, Ini, Mini, and Mo, aren't at school, you can usually find three generations of Calderones at Café Taza, serving up sandwiches de...

16) Charlie Hernández & the phantom of time

Author

Calejo, Ryan

Series

Charlie Hernández volume 4

Description

When Charlie receives a dire warning from the Land of the Dead about an impending catastrophe, he travels back in time to 1950s Cuba, where he unravels dark secrets and faces unspeakable evil in a race against time to save the world.

17) Charlie Hernández & the Golden Dooms

Author

Calejo, Ryan

Series

Charlie Hernández volume 3

Description

"A young calaca's appearance at school sends Charlie on a quest to investigate suspicious activity in Miami and learn the truth behind the Golden Dooms"-- Death walks into Charlie Hernandez's life. At least, the dead do, starting with a mysterious young calaca who corners him at school, dropping cryptic hints about trouble brewing in the 305. With the League of Shadows focused on repairing fractured alliances and tracking gathering armies, this one...

18) Charlie Hernández & the castle of bones

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"When Queen Joanna is kidnapped Charlie and Violet set out across South America to find her and discover a conspiracy to raise the dead"--

19) Charlie Hernández & the league of shadows

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"Steeped in Hispanic folklore since childhood, middle schooler Charlie Hernández learns the stories are true when, shortly after his parents disappearance, he grows horns and feathers and finds himself at the heart of a battle to save the world."--Colophon.

20) Cruzita and the mariacheros

Author

Granillo, Ashley Jean

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Book, eBook, eAudiobook

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