Inspired by her own granddaughter Natalie, Vice President Joe Biden's wife, Jill, tells a story through a child's eyes of what family life is like when a parent is at war across the world.
When her father leaves for a year of being at war, Natalie knows that she will miss him. Natalie is proud o[...]
In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child's unique perspective to an important chapter in America's history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks di[...]
Dona Flor is a giant woman who lives in a puebla with lots of families. She loves her neighbors-she lets the children use her flowers for trumpets, and the families use her leftover tortillas for rafts. So when a huge puma is terrifying the village, of course Flor is the one to investigate.
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Basado en la historia real del educador Mejicano-Americano Tomás Rivera, un hijo de trabajadores inmigrantes que llegó a convertirse, dentro del sistema de la Universidad de California, en el Canciller del primera minorÃa, esta inspiradora historia sugiere lo que las librerÃas-y la educa[...]