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Enchanted Air : Two Cultures, Two Wings : a Memoir
by Margarita Engle
In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up in two cultures during a time of cold hostility between nations. This almost-war of words shaped a sensitive young girl into an award-winning poet who enriches the world with words of a far more hopeful kind. By the author of The Surrender Tree.
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Drum Dream Girl : How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
by Margarita Engle
This book follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes a note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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The Smoking Mirror
by David Bowles
Carol and Johnny Garza are 12-year-old twins whose lives in a small Texas town are forever changed by their mother's unexplained disappearance. Shipped off to relatives in Mexico by their grieving father, the twins soon learn that their mother is a nagual, a shapeshifter, and that they have inherited her powers. In order to rescue her, they will have to descend into the Aztec underworld and face the dangers that await them.
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Mango, Abuela, and Me
by Meg Medina
When Mia's Abuela comes to live with Mia and her family, she helps her learn English while Mia learns Spanish, both with the help of a parrot named Mango.
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Mango, Abuela, and Me
by Meg Medina
When Mia's Abuela comes to live with Mia and her family, she helps her learn English while Mia learns Spanish, both with the help of a parrot named Mango.
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Funny Bones : Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
by Duncan Tonatiuh
A portrait of the Mexican political cartoonist best known for his calavera animated skeleton depictions traces his life and artistic career while describing how his skeleton drawings have become synonymous with Mexico's Día de los Muertos festival.
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