Discusses the history of Native Americans, with a sampling of excerpts from their own accounts of their experiences.

Because the long, hard winter caused scarcity of firewood and food, a poor Indian boy and his animal friends journey to the lodge of the Great Bear to release the chinook.

Rhyming text presents traditions used to celebrate the Day of the Dead.

Carlos ignores his father’s advice about being careful how he spends his money at the carnival, and soon his pockets are empty.

In this variation of the Cinderella story, coming from the Hispanic tradition in New Mexico, Arciá and her wicked stepsisters have different encounters with a magical hawk and are left physically changed in ways that will affect their meeting with the prince.

A simple biography of the man who worked to win fairer treatment of the migrant farm workers in California in the 1960s and to establish the United Farm Workers union.

Little Pedro, who sings like an angel, is allowed to lead the Christmas procession, known as La Posada, through the old Mexican section of downtown Los Angeles.

After hoping and trying, the narrator is finally able to hear the hills singing.

Considers the pleasures to be found in one’s very own private place, whether it be a hollow in a tree, a sandy gully, or a secret sand dune.