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Alma Flor Ada
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Peruvian and Japanese. Each of them is also Latino. Thirteen young Latinos and Latinas living in America are introduced in this book celebrating the rich diversity of the Latino and Latina experience in the United States. Free-verse fictional narratives from the perspective of each youth provide specific
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Description
Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Peruvian and Japanese. Each of them is also Latino. Thirteen young Latinos and Latinas living in America are introduced in this book celebrating the rich diversity of the Latino and Latina experience in the United States. Free-verse fictional narratives from the perspective of each youth provide specific...
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Description
En esta clara guía, Alma Flor Ada, Isabel Campoy y Colin Baker, ofrecen una perspectiva realista de las alegrías y dificultades de educar a niños bilingües y claras respuestas a las preguntas más frecuentes sobre el tema. Esta versión revisada y adaptada al bilingüismo español-inglés, incluye información sobre el bilingüismo en la era digital e incorpora investigaciones recientes sobre la mezcla de idiomas, el efecto que los hermanos tienen...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
These true autobiographical tales from renowned Hispanic author and educator Alma Flor Ada are filled with family love and traditions, secrets and deep friendships, and a gorgeous, moving picture of the island of Cuba, where Alma Flor grew up. Told through the eyes of a child, a whole world comes to life in these pages: the blind great-grandmother who never went to school but whose wisdom and generosity overflowed to those around her; the hired hand...
Author
Series
Paperback plus volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this cumulative folktale from Latin America, the sun sets off a chain of events which results in the cleaning of Rooster's beak in time for his uncle's wedding.
Author
Series
Publisher
TOON Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Description
"A collection of three Latin American folktales retold in graphic novel form"--
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