Marisol and Magdalena

Marisol and Magdalena
Author: Veronica Chambers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Best friends
ISBN: 9780439367639

Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father. A saucy story of family and friendship, latina style, this book follows the lives of two best friends as their families try to instill in them the traditions of their heritage.

Marisol and Magdalena

Marisol and Magdalena
Author: Veronica Chambers
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-03-30
Genre: Best friends
ISBN: 9780606309691

Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.

Quinceanera Means Sweet Fifteen

Quinceanera Means Sweet Fifteen
Author: Veronica Chambers
Publisher: Hyperion
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2001-03-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Eagerly anticipating her Quinceañera, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew.

Anastasia at Your Service

Anastasia at Your Service
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 163
Release: 1982-10-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547345682

Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired to be a maid.

Quinito's Neighborhood

Quinito's Neighborhood
Author: Ina Cumpiano
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2005
Genre: Bilingual books
ISBN: 0892392096

Quinito's neighbors all have important roles to play in the community.

Hearing All the Voices

Hearing All the Voices
Author: Mary Ann Darby
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810840584

Hearing All the Voices is a tremendous resource for any adult who works with middle school aged adolescents. This work annotates over 500 multicultural books and gives ideas on how to group the books and use the books with students both in and out of the classroom.

The Storyteller's Candle

The Storyteller's Candle
Author: Lucía M. González
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780892392223

During the early years of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican library, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.

Mama's Girl

Mama's Girl
Author: Veronica Chambers
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1997-05-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1573225991

On the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, Veronica Chambers mastered the whirling helixes of a double-dutch jump rope with the same finesse she brought to her schoolwork, her often troubled family life, and the demands of being overachieving and underprivileged. Her mother—a Panamanian immigrant—was too often overwhelmed by the task of raising Veronica and her difficult younger brother on her meager secretary's salary to applaud her daughter's achievements. From an early age, Veronica understood that the best she could do for her mother was to be a perfect child—to rewrite her Christmas wish lists to her mother's budget, to look after her brother, to get by on her own. Though her mother seemed to bear out the adage that "black women raise their daughters and mother their sons," Veronica never stopped trying to do more, do better, do it all. And now, as a successful young woman who's achieved more than her mother dared hope for her, she looks back on their mother-daughter bond. The critically acclaimed Mama's Girl is a moving, startlingly honest memoir, in which Chambers shares some important truths about what we all really want from our mothers—and what we can give in return.

Mi Propio Cuartito

Mi Propio Cuartito
Author: Amada Irma Pérez
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780892391646

With the help of her family, a resourceful Mexican American girl realizes her dream of having a space of her own to read and to think.

Many Peoples, One Land

Many Peoples, One Land
Author: Alethea K. Helbig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2000-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313064997

Celebrating the wealth of quality multicultural literature recently published for children and young adults, this valuable resource examines the fiction, oral tradition, and poetry from four major ethnic groups in the United States. Each of these genres is considered in turn for the literature dealing with African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native-American Indians. Taking up where their earlier volume This Land is Our Land left off, Helbig and Perkins have teamed up once again to identify and expertly evaluate more than 500 multicultural books published from 1994 through 1999. Both considered authorities in the field of children's literature, the two of them personally selected, read, and evaluated all the books included here. Their insightful annotations help readers carefully consider both literary standards such as plot development, characterization, and style, as well as cultural values as they are represented in these cited works. Each entry also indicates the suggested age and grade level appropriateness of the work. With the proliferation and ever increasing popularity of multicultural literature for children and young adults, this sensitively written volume will serve as an invaluable collection development tool. Teachers, as well as librarians, will find the comprehensiveness and organization of this bibliography helpful as a guide in selecting appropriate materials for classroom use. Even students will find this book easy to use, with its five indexes identifying works by title, writer, illustrator, grade level, and subject. Public libraries and school media centers will find much use for Many Peoples, One Land.