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Hispanic Heritage Month - Kids
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Kids
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
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Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border - la frontera - and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
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"La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su querida hermana es desgarrador, por lo que Esther promete...
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"A lo largo de la historia y hasta nuestros días, las personas se han trasladado de un lugar a otro para escapar del peligro y buscar una vida mejor. Pero con frecuencia los inmigrantes y refugiados encuentran realidades hostiles en sus viajes. Conoce más sobre la inmigración y la reubicación de refugiados tanto en Estados Unidos y como en el mundo, incluidas las grandes migraciones históricas y recientes, las dificultades de la vida en un nuevo...
5) Lola
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When she has to draw a picture of where she immigrated from, Lola asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland.
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When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...
8) Alika
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"Alika se está durmiendo en brazos de su madre. Está contenta porque mañana tendrá una sorpresa. Mientras el sueño la va venciendo imagina qué pueder ser."--Page [4] of cover.
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In this book, the renowned Mexican journalist, León Krauze presents a charming Mosaic: fifty stories of people, fifty lives that portray the experience of migrating to the United States and the battle to achieve a better life. Inspired by conversations, spontaneous and candid, in the successful television segment 'La Mesa,' which has broken ratings on Univisión records, Krauze revives the tales of those who have had the courage to emigrate, leaving...
11) Con mucho amor
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"Rocio has grown up in Central America, but now she and her family are moving to the United States. Rocio does her best to adjust to a new way of living, but there are many things she misses from her old life--Abuela's cooking, Abuela's pinata creations, Abuela's warm hugs, and of course, Abuela herself most of all. But Abuela finds a way to send Rocio something special just in time for her birthday--a gift wrapped with lots of love--and that fills...
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"Before, the sun drenched the yard. Our neighbor's laughter danced in the streets. Now, the streets are quiet. Papa is gone, and we are no longer safe here. We are leaving, too. In this moving and stunningly-illustrated picture book, Noemi and Mama flee their home in Mexico, and head for the US border. There, they look for The Notebook Keeper-- the person in charge of a ledger for those waiting to cross, and they add their names to the book. As the...
15) 7 soles
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El Negro gets hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. When he claims this will be his last trip because he wants out of the business, his superiors become suspicious and send a younger smuggler to keep an eye on him. The two fight during the troubled crossing, and eventually lose part of their human cargo. El Negro now finds himself on the run from his former associates and the law.
16) Isla Ellis
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In Ellis Island, young readers will explore this American landmark and learn about its historic significance. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they explore this important site. A labeled diagram helps readers understand locations and items associated with Ellis Island, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about Ellis Island online using our safe search engine...
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"Este libro es el resultado de los constantes viajes que Leonardo Tarifeno realizo a Tijuana luego de participar en el proyecto Migracion y Memoria, que tuvo como proposito recolectar el sinnumero de historias que los migrantes deportados desde Estados Unidos traen consigo.Desde un comedor comunitario (El Desayunador del Padre Chava) como cuartel general, Tarifeno logro recabar un importante numero de testimonios que tienen en comun una larga secuencia...
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Traza el efecto domin̤ de la guerra y la inmigraci̤n en dos nįos: Samuel, de cinco ąos, cuya madre lo mete en un tren Kindertransport desde la Austria ocupada por los nazis a Inglaterra en 1938, y Anita, de siete ąos, que aborda otro tren ocho ďcadas m̀s tarde a los EE.UU., donde se separa de su madre.
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out...
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When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled. After eleven years, he decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing...
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