הוצאת PINATA BOOKS
הספרים של הוצאת PINATA BOOKS
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Mónica spends her life around a bakery, not just because she likes the sweets, but also because she loves her grandparents, the baker and the bakery lady. She watches the bustle of la panadería, and she knows that she will one day be the baker.
Her first real test comes as she and her beloved ... |
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A compelling coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of a traditional quinceañera celebration....
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One day, a terrible thunderstorm knocked down the giant mesquite tree that grew in the town square. After the storm, the townspeople gathered to gawk at the large obstruction blocking the street. They weren't sure what to do with it, but they all agreed that the wood was good for nothing exc...
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deliciously gory folktales salvaged by Avila ...
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A myth from one of the indigenous cultures of the West Indies explains how a golden flower first brought water to the world and how Puerto Rico came into existence....
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Maya's well-ordered and productive highschool life receives an unwelcome jolt and begins to unravel when her parents announce their impending divorce. How Maya copes with this blow and the reaction of her friends and famiy make for engrossing reading....
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"Today is Butterfly Day!" Julianita excitedly tells her grandfather as they make their way down Carmen Street to school one morning. Today is the day Julianita and her friends have been waiting for--they're going to learn about monarch butterflies. But what's even more thrilling is they're e...
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"Hola, Abuelita. It's me, Estrellita!" And so begins the phone conversation that Estrellita and her beloved grandmother have longed for since Estrellita moved from her beautiful island home of Puerto Rico to New York City.Estrellita regales her grandmother with stories of the exciting sights and sou...
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Readers will treasure this bilingual book about the transmission of musical heritage
Dust-covered boxes, old and forgotten furniture, and discarded treasures intrigue a young boy exploring his grandfather’s garage. In the midst of this mine, he makes a discovery more fascinating than a treas... |
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A poignant bilingual picture book about the death of a grandmother
Like most Saturdays, Mr. García’s rooster wakes Lorena much earlier than she wants to wake up. Lorena pulls the covers over her head to block out the day, but she knows she has to get up. Today is no ordinary Saturday. She a... |
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Josephine "Miss Mac" McKeever had taught English and Theatre Arts at Rosemont Middle School for so long that her colleagues sometimes joked that she would die in the classroom. So when she does just that, students, teachers, and administrators are stunned. After getting over the initial shoc... |
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Rafael, or Rafi as he's known to his family and friends, lives in a mobile home park called Paradise Cove. He likes to ride his bike, catch the waves on his boogie board with his friend Matt, and most of all Rafi loves his black cat named Scratch. Rafi's father says that it's a sign of good luck whe...
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Zulema Ortiz is the meanest little girl in the whole wide world. She doesn't have any friends, animals run away from her in fear, and her mom doesn't know what to do with her. But maybe, just maybe, her almost ninety-year-old Grandma Sabina does. When Grandma Sabina comes to live with the family, th...
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Frog and His Friends Save Humanity / La Rana Y Sus Amigos Salvan a La Humanidad
מאת Victor Villasenor
It's the Spring of Creation, and all of the animals are busy doing what they do best. There was no confusion. But suddenly, a strange, furless, shell-less creature appears in their midst and the animals are mystified by the strange being. The bear knew that this creature would not be as strong, the ...
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Pepita is almost always happy. But she isn't today. She's not happy because everything is different on her new street. There's no familiar grocery store on the corner, and no tortilla shop squeezed right next to it. TÃÂa Rosa's house isn't down the street, and worst of all, her best friend Son...
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Seventh-grader Joshua knows his best friend Artie Mendoza is a liar. They have been friends since kindergarten, and Artie has told far-fetched stories for years. So when Artie tells Josh that there's a body buried in Mrs. Foley's garden, Josh doesn't believe him at first. But when Josh walks by the ...
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The home of Mother Fox and her three babies is hidden by the roots of a tree stump in a long valley. In the beautiful fields around their home, Mother Fox cares for her children, who are so tiny they fit in the palm of a human hand. She brings them treats to eat, and she leads them to sit on the r...
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Maggie is a smart, hard-working, responsible teenager who wants to become a doctor. She is given a great chance to try her skills when she is hired to care for an ailing elderly woman. They take a genuine liking to each other--and her grandson is the shool basketball strar that Maggie has been pinin...
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Case of the Pen Gone Missing: A Mickey Rangel Mystery / El caso de La pluma perdida: Coleccion Mickey Rangel, detective privado
מאת Rene Saldana
When Toots Rodriguez approaches Mickey on the playground, he knows something is up. Toots, the prettiest girl in the fifth grade, never talks to Mickey, not even when they're assigned to work together on a class project. But Toots has come to Mickey because she's in trouble, and he's a detect...
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''My name is Marisol. I'm seven years old. This spring, I helped my grandfather make a garden.'' First, Marisol and her grandfather had to prepare the ground. They pulled out the old plants and weeds. They mixed up all the dirt ''to make it soft.'' Then it was time to plant the seeds. They planted...
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The EGGerson family lives on a planet called NEGGarus in a galaxy far, far away. On NEGGarus, everything is either round or oval shaped. The people who live there Supersapien EGGbeings, or EGGbees come in different sizes and colors, but they re all shaped like, well, EGGs. The EGGerson family, like ...
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Like many human children, Cucuy, the little monster, doesn't like to go to bed. "I'm not sleepy," he says. "All I want to do is jump around and play!" He tries to run and hide, but Mamá manages to get him into his pajamas. Every night he kicks and screams, wiggles and jiggles, mumbles and grumble...
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This ode to family depicts the special influence of a young boy’s grandparents in his life. His voice rings as he catalogs the various ways his grandparents impact him. Through gentle verse, Caraballo strings the joys of this quiet relationship: weekends spent throwing parties in the kitchen with...
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"On rainy Sunday mornings when Mama pulls out her tall, dark soup pot with tiny white spots, we know it will be a caldo day. Caldo, caldo, caldo." The kids know they are in for a special treat when Mama begins preparing her delicious beef vegetable soup. Mama's caldo "fills u... |
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In this bilingual collection of five stories, Don Cecilio tells the neighborhood children stories that make their hair stand on end. "In my barrio they told the story..." and so his cuento would begin. In "The Owl and the Bundle," young Tomas disappears without a trace. Distraught, his par... |
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Cousins are friends and rivals. Cousins are funny and frustrating. But the most important thing is that cousins are family. We are Cousins / Somos primos celebrates the joy of this special family bond.
The children explain that they are cousins because their mothers are sisters, a... |
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''How come you can have sweets and I can't?'' Enrique asks the hummingbirds as they flutter over the flowers in the garden. His craving for sugar is getting out of control, and his father has forbidden him to eat anything sweet. Enrique's birthday is coming up and he won't be allowed to help his gra...
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This exciting action-adventure for young-adults continues the story of the Spanish contribution to the American Revolution
In his last adventure, Lorenzo Bannister swept across the southern colonies of England and Spain, from the teeming ports of New Orleans to the fertile plantations of Virgi... |
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Miguel and Ramón are in big trouble with their family. The cousins were almost expelled from school for fighting, and just as they're finishing up their final year in middle school and preparing to enter high school, their grades have dropped. Miguel's father Rodrigo who, with his wife Connie, ha...
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Brothers Gabriel and Gustavo, high school students in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, are horrified when their father suggests that they spend the summer in California doing field work to earn extra money. They're not immigrants; the boys and their younger sister Paula were born in Texas, and the id...
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This colorfully illustrated picture book charmingly explores the joys and benefits of bilingualism. Capturing the beauty and flavor of biculturalism, this story of a little girl at the crossroads of the English and Spanish-speaking worlds will delight children of all backgrounds who enjoy multicultu...
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Sixteen-year-old Carolina "Caro" Torres is excited about spending six weeks of her summer vacation working for her Tía Matilde, mainly because she needs money to buy the car she has been eyeing. But her excitement turns to bewilderment when she finds her aunt hobbling around on a broken foo...
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Young Daniel doesn't share his dad's excitement over going to the family reunion. What's the big deal? It's just going to be a bunch of old people he doesn't know, sitting around and telling stories about other old people he doesn't know. Once there, though, Daniel is in for several pleasant surpris...
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"The trouble with you is that you have a wild imagination," people tell Tessa. So what if she calls herself "Athena, the goddess of wisdom and a woman of the twenty-first century?" It’s that wild imagination that will make her a good writer. When Tessa finds yellowing pages torn from a book ...
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Frustrated by his poor financial situation and hoping to impress a smart girl, seventh grader Trino falls in with a bad crowd led by an older teen with a vicious streak....
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The picturesque city of San Antonio, Texas with its rich Mexican-American culture provides the ideal backdrop for the linked stories in this award-winning collection....
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"Pops stormed his way down the hall in a pissed-off march--trouble on the move. A quick glance at his florid, contorted face told me he was smashed. I looked down at meat, spoon, dough--anything to avoid his bleary red eyes. The stench of booze sickened me. So did my father."
In the title story ... |
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The Empanadas That Abuela Made/Las Empanadas Que Hacia LA Abuela: Las Empanadas Que Hacia LA Abuela
מאת Diane Gonzales Bertrand
A sweet bilingual story about a family tradition
Baking is always a treat, particularly when you throw family and fun into the mix. In this whimsical look at the making of empanadas, popular children’s author Gonzales Bertrand serves up the festive fun of a family’s effort to concoct the ... |
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"My name is Ana. Every year, my family makes tamales for Christmas. This year, I am six, so I get to mix the dough, which is made of cornmeal. My sister Lidia is eight, so she gets to spread the dough on the corn husk leaves. I wish I was eight, so that my hands would be big enough to spread the ... |
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Rattling Chains and Other Stories for Children / Ruido de cadenas y otros cuentos para ninos
מאת Nasario Garcia
The abandoned settlement of El Coruco in Northern New Mexico is said to be haunted by witches, ghosts and the sound of rattling chains. People claim to have seen lights in the long-empty homes. So one night, when Natividad sees lights in the houses, he decides to go see for himself. Do witches reall...
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On the eve of World War II, young Alejandro comes of age on his family's South Texas farm, known as Chicken Foot Farm because of how his mother marks her chicks. "Mama held the chick against her breast and splayed its left foot between her thumb and index finger. With her free hand she... quickly... |
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Ricardo Romo never dreamed that running to catch the school bus would lead to a college education, and ultimately, to a long and respected career as a teacher, administrator, and university president. He grew up in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican immigrants, and worked in his family's ...
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