Region: Puerto Rico

When I Was Puerto Rican

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

Esmeralda Santiago’s story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage [...]

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Call Me Maria

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

Fifteen-year-old Mara leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.

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Clemente!

By Book Importer | Published: July 6, 2010

A little boy named Clemente learns about his namesake, the great baseball player Roberto Clemente, in this joyful picture book biography. Born in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente was the first Latin American player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the only player for whom the five-year initiation period was waived. Known [...]

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Los tres naufragos (Spanish Edition)

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

An old marine turtle that has to return to the beach where she was born to deposit her eggs, perhaps for the last time, a young, immature pelican that falls into an oil slick at sea, and a tricky cat that was thrown into the sea are the three protagonists of this story. They will [...]

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El cumpleaños del San Pedrito

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Description in Spanish: Es el cumpleaños del San Pedrito y todos en el bosque se ponen de acuerdo para organizarle una fiesta. La alegría se siente en todas las ramas de los árboles; hay música y comida. Pero llega el guaraguao y trata de arruinarlo todo. Sin embargo, la fiesta sigue porque el valiente pitirre [...]

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El pececito mágico (Alfaguara Infantil Y Juvenil) (Spanish Edition)

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Description in Spanish: La indiecita Yaití, en uno de sus paseos cerca del río, conoce a un pececito muy especial. Y cuando un huracán destruye el yucayeque en el que vive con su familia, recibe la ayuda de su nuevo amigo, que no sólo le demuestra aprecio, sino que le revela un secreto gracias al [...]

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La brujita encantada

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Description in Spanish:La brujita Fua es tan buena como chiquita y siempre ayuda a todo aquel que la necesite. Se alegra cuando los niños se portan bien y baila y ríe cuando los ve contentos. Es una brujita que cree en la acción y que se pinta de tantos colores como buenos sentimientos [...]

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Limericks

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Description in Spanish:Con estas entretenidas rimas, los niños se reirán y disfrutarán inmensamente de la lectura. Aquí se encontraran con un escarabajo robot, un elefante bombero, una hormiga que anda en patines y otros interesantes personajes que les proveerán diversión y los llevarán de la mano a descubrir el mundo de la literatura.

Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Poetry, Primary (ages 6-9), Rhymes/songs » Themes: , , » Leave a comment

El circo

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Description in Spanish:Alicia siempre ha querido ser trapecista y su sueno se hace realidad cuando el circo llega a su pueblo. Entre mil colores, payasos, acrobtas, moniytos, caballos, y elefantes, Alicia logra lo que se propone.

Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Early Years (ages 2-6), Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Vejigante Masquerader

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Determined to look his best for the upcoming celebration, a young Puerto Rican boy makes a special costume so that he can be a vejigante, or masquerader, in a book that includes a Spanish-English glossary, chants, and instructions for making a vejigante mask.

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