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Margarita Robleda
Paco: un niño latino en Estados
Unidos
Paco: A Latino Boy in the United
States
Illustrations by Danilo Ramírez
Family, Bilingualism, Feelings and Emotions
3–5 GR: N • AR: 4.7 (Spanish)
A 10-year-old boy, born into a Latino family
that recently migrated to the USA, writes
his autobiography to comply with a school
assignment. Paco’s humorous, candid
story promotes cultural and racial pride,
persistence and determination to achieve
personal goals, multiculturalism, and family
ties.
8” x 11” • 36pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9781594375583 $ 13.95
English 9781594375606 $ 13.95
5–8
Víctor Carvajal
Como un salto de campana
Like the Ring of a Bell
Illustrations by Catalina Guevara Guzmán
Family, Multicultural, Bilingualism
5–8
Pancho is a Chilean boy who lives in Germany
with his parents. His grandfather lives in a
small coastal town in Chile. They write to
each other about their lives and dreams.
Through the loving and rich relationship
between these two characters, readers will
learn interesting facts about life in the so-
called “Old” and “New” Continents.
4” x 7” • 143pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9789562700016 $ 10.95
Víctor Carvajal
Mamire, el último niño
Mamire, the Last Child
Illustrations by Eduardo Osorio
Multicultural, Community Involvement
5–8 AR: 5.3
Mamire is the last child, the last grandchild,
the last student, and the last shepherd left in
a small rural village in the mountains of Chile.
Entire families have left the village, lured by
the fascination of the cities. Shortly before
he is about to leave with his parents, the
child makes up a plan to change the fate of
his beloved village.
4” x 7” • 110pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9789562390200 $ 10.95
Grades
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Edna Iturralde
Caminantes del sol
Walking with the Sun
Illustrations by Santiago González, Marco
Chamorro, and Luis Bencomo
History, Ancient Civilization, Feelings and
Emotions
5–8
The Andes Mountains of present-day Peru
and Ecuador provide the setting for this
adventure novel. The story develops during
the government of Tupac Inca Yupanqui,
son of Pachacutec, the greatest of the Inca
emperors. This book provides an accurate
portrayal of the Incas’ history and their
modern descendants, the Saraguro.
6”x 8” • 163pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9789978074312 $ 14.95
Edna Iturralde
Verde fue mi selva
My Forest Was Green
Illustrations by Eulalia Cornejo; Santiago
González; Mauricio Maggiorini
Ecology, Myths and Legends, Multicultural
5–8 GR: R
In this book, best-selling Ecuadorian author
Edna Iturralde writes twelve stories that
portray the life of the people in the eastern
part of Ecuador, the green pastures to the
right of the great mountains. It is called
the East for its forest, exotic animals, and
indigenous unknown towns.
5”x 8” • 154pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9789978074213 $ 9.95
• Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner
for Ethnic and Intercultural Diversity
in the United States, 2002
Other multicultural titles (cont’d.)
Verde fue mi selva / Illustrations by Eulalia Cornejo;
Santiago González; Mauricio Maggiorini
Multicultural
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