When Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela asks her father why she has so many names, she hears the story of her name and learns about her grandparents.

"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"-- "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students...

When her abuelo is injured at the local landfill, second-grader Sofia is determined to transform the dangerous Mount Trashmore into a park, taking on City Hall in the process.

Desmond and Andres find themselves in a sticky situation when a new type of bubble gum starts to consume Kersville--literally!

"A nurturing voice reassures the lonely and afraid in difficult times"--

Gregory Reeves, the son of a self-styled preacher, struggles to overcome his childhood of poverty and neglect and to take control of his destiny. Es su primera novela situada en los Estados Unidos y con personajes nortemamericanos. Es la saga de un hombre que, durante los largos años de su juventud y madurez, busca amor y aceptación. Allende traza la pobreza y abandono de la niñez de su protagonista, la persecuzión de las pandillas de un barrio...

A collection of four separately published stories featuring Pedro, Katie Woo's classmate and friend.

"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...

When Andres discovers that he has had a monster encounter without knowing it as strange things start happening in the school cafeteria, he and Desmond investigate.

Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.