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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
Christobel Mattingley
Asmir no quiere pistolas
No Gun for Asmir
Illustrations by Elizabeth Honey
Tolerance, Family, Conflicts, Violence and War
5–8
The war has turned Sarajevo into a place of
turmoil and destruction. This story tells of the
journey of a Bosnian family that is first airlifted
to Belgrade and later makes its way to Vienna.
The family’s ordeal is touchingly told from a
child’s perspective.
4” x 7” • 129pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9788420449036 $ 11.95
Geraldine McCaughrean
Peter Pan de rojo escarlata
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Adventures, Fantasy
5–8 GR: U AR: 5.8
The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M.
Barrie’s Peter Pan.
Peter Pan in Scarlet, set in the 1920s, takes
readers flying back to Neverland in an adventure
filled with tension, danger, and swashbuckling
derring-do! In this sequel, the Lost Boys, who
are now responsible adults, begin having
nightmares about Peter Pan and Neverland, and
they realize that their friend needs them. They
change into the children they once were and
travel back to Neverland where they will live
exciting new adventures.
5” x 8” • 296pp • Hardbound
Spanish 9789587044676 $ 17.95
María Isabel Molina
De Victoria para Alejandro
From Victoria to Alejandro
Illustrations by Francisco Solé
History, Geography
5–8 AR: 4.4
Victoria is the daughter of a Roman senator
who must travel to Jerusalem to collect the
inheritance left to her by her grandfather, a
Hebrew scribe converted to Christianity. Her
family tries at all costs to marry her off to her
cousin to keep the inheritance. Nevertheless,
she is in love with a Christian slave to whom
she writes letters describing her personal
experiences.
4” x 7” • 135pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9789681903879 $ 11.95
María Isabel Molina
El señor del Cero
The Zero Man
Illustrations by Francisco Solé
History, Math Concepts
5–8
José is a young Mozarab who has been forced to
flee Cordova. His great talent for mathematics
provokes great envy. At the Ripoll Monastery he
teaches Arabic numbers and, at the same time,
bears witness to the struggle of the Catalonian
people to free themselves from Frankish rule.
José’s knowledge becomes suspect to the
fanatics who set out to stop him.
4” x 7” • 153pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9789681903886 $ 10.95
Katherine Paterson
La gran Gilly Hopkins
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Feelings and Emotions, Family
5–8 GR: U • AR: 4.6
This selection portrays an orphan girl who has
had to change foster homes many times. Gilly
dreams of the day when Courtney, the mother
she has never met, will come for her.
4”x 8” • 152pp. • Paperback
Spanish 9789702904342 $ 9.95
• 1979 Newbery Medal Honor Book
• 1998 Hans Christian Andersen Medal
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