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All tagged Latin-American
This is the biography of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latin-American woman, to be appointed to the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court. Ms. Sotomayor grew up in the projects in the Bronx.
Esperanza loves her home, her country, her beautiful clothes and her loving family. She lives on a ranch in Mexico and they grow grapes. Esperanza looks forward to the end of grape harvest because her family will have a party to celebrate the harvest and her thirteenth birthday!
These books follow two cousins, Angela and Jaime, who are fleeing gang activity in Guatemala. They are threatened by the dominant gang because their brother/cousin, Michael was killed by the gang.
This book follows the heart-breaking story of fourteen-year-old Diane Guerrero losing her parents to an ICE raid. ICE is the branch of the government that detains and deports undocumented people. Diane’s parents lived in the US for years, and Diane was born in the US.
This is a wonderful book...educational, full of good morals, and fun. Join Pablo in Paraguay as he earns money to buy his own pig.
This book is about a boy and his Grandma. It’s the companion book to Grandma’s Records. It’s Christmas time and Grandma comes to pick up Eric. They are going to spend Christmas Vacation together. The only assignment that Eric must do during Christmas Vacation is to go the Metropolitan Museum of Art and look at a specific painting.
