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 multicultural identities.

Pepita Talks Twice/Pepita Habla DOS Veces (English and Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas

Biographies

Arte Publico Press

From the moment nine-year-old Angela Martin sees her father led away on a summer day by immigration officers, she spends her life denying her Mexican roots. As the novel opens, Angela Martin Raine, a woman with a newly born fear and a newly awakened regret prodding her, leaves a comfortable Los Angeles home and a distressed husband to return to a fishing village in Mexico, there to face the reality of her denial. The story of her journey is told in juxtaposition to the story of a crucial summer in her childhood, "the summer of the fruit picking," when her father was involved in an attempted fruit pickers' strike in the Central Valley. As a result of his activities, her father was unjustly deported and subsequently murdered in a twisted vendetta.

A Shell for Angela

Literature & Fiction

United States

Arte Publico Pr

When Elena and her little brother, Carlos, leave their Mexican seaside village to search for their immigrant father in Los Angeles, they encounter intrigue, crime, mystery, friendship, and love.

The Girl from Playa Blanca

Action & Adventure

A world of adventure greets Elena and her little brother, Carlos, once they leave their Mexican seaside village to find their father, who has suddenly disappeared in the masses of immigrants attempting to make a living in Los Angeles in order to support families back home.

Intrigue and danger weave a web around young Consuelo as she is thrust into a new life in unfamiliar surroundings and a real life mystery that begs to be resolved.

Call Me Consuelo

Teen & Young Adult

Leticia's Secret

Until she learns Leticia's shocking secret, eleven-year-old Rosario can't understand why adults fawn over this enigmatic cousin who does nothing but sit around the house

This intriguing, fast-paced novel traces the blossoming relationship between young Rosario Silva and her enigmatic cousin Leticia. As Rosario and Leticia begin to share more and more, Rosario learns her cousin's shocking secret.

Pepita does not like the color pink and is dismayed to learn that it is the favorite color of the pink little girl who moves in next door.

Pepita y el Color Rosado / Pepita Thinks Pink (Spanish, English and English Edition)

Pepita Thinks Pink: Pepita Y El Color Rosado (Spanish, English and English Edition)

Reference

Canetti, Yanitzia

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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Pepita Talks Twice/Pepita Habla DOS Veces (English and Spanish Edition)

A Shell for Angela

The Girl from Playa Blanca

The Girl from Playa Blanca

Call Me Consuelo

Call Me Consuelo

Leticia's Secret

Leticia's Secret

Pepita y el Color Rosado / Pepita Thinks Pink (Spanish, English and English Edition)

Pepita Thinks Pink: Pepita Y El Color Rosado (Spanish, English and English Edition)