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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Pat Mora’s Elena, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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A Study Guide for Pat Mora’s Uncoiling, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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In a series of poetic sentences, a young boy (biracial Mexican/Caucasian) tells about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
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A collection of haiku focusing on fourteen foods native to the Americas, celebrating the fun of the foods as well as their origins.
Doana Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind…
A collection of essays that explores personal issues and political responsibilities.
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Libby and her great-aunt, Lobo, both learn the Pledge of Allegiance–Libby for school, and Lobo for her U.S. citizenship ceremony –
Drawing on oral and lyrical traditions, this book honors the grace and spirit of mothers, daughters, lovers, and goddesses. From a tribute to Frida Kahlo to advice from an Aztec…
Inspired by Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Pat Mora brings us the poetic monologues of Encantado, an imagined southwestern town. Each poem forms a…
An award-winning author and a rising-star artist have put a festive Latino twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas, populating it with piatas in place of partridges, plus burritos bailando…
Shh, shh, close your eyes.Shh … shh … Cierra los ojitos. Outside, the rabbits are sleeping,Afuera, los conejitos estan durmiendo and the birds, and the squirrels. junto con…
Based on the workshop, Nurturing Creativity: Seven Practices for Educators and Students, this book affirms the conviction that creative teachers are effective teachers and emphasizes that every child’s creative self…
This first title in a four-book bilingual series introduces a loving Hispanic family who sits for a traditional dinner and discovers what it really means to be rich. Full color.
Recipient of a 1995 Skipping Stones Award. Included in the Houston Area Independent School Library Network (HAISLN) Recommended Reading List for 1999.
The renowned poet Pat Mora celebrates the culture and landscape of the Southwest through the eyes of a Mexican American girl.
A Study Guide for Pat Mora’s Legal Alien, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Pat Mora y Domi han creado una adaptacion poetica de la version maya de la queridisima fabula de la tortuga y la liebre. El arrogante venado que se jacta de…
A whoosh from her grandfather’s blowgun causes Luna, the moon, to tumble from the sky and fall to pieces in the dark ocean. To save herself, she enlists the help…
One night a gust from her grandfather’s blowgun causes Luna, the moon, to tumble from the sky and fall into pieces in the dark ocean below. With the help of…
Pat Mora,Mora
This bilingual account of animals of the Southwestern desert and the sounds they make feature double-page spreads with text written in both English and Spanish. Ideal for reading aloud. Full-color…
From bestselling Latina author Pat Mora comes a collection of poems celebrating a young child’s growth and everyday experiences throughout the seasons of a year.
Now in paperback: In a series of poetic verses in both English and Spanish, readers learn about the movement and moods of water around the world and the ways in…
More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as The Young Sor Juana, Graduation Morning, Border Town 1938, Legal Alien, Abuelita Magic, and In the Blood.
Pat Mora,Libby Martinez
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 2014 –Copyright page.
Though she died in 1695, Sor Juana InZs is still considered one of the most brilliant writers in Mexico’s history. The recipient of the Tom+s Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book…
Translated by Pat Mora with contributions from native Spanish-speaking poets and authors –T.p. verso.
Celebrates the relationship between the beloved Saint and the animals he adored. Written with full-colour woodcut illustrations, this book aims to encourage readers young and old to join in with…
Always amigos! My Singing Nana is a compassionate tribute to families dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease. This story celebrates the ideals of family, heritage, and happy memories, showing kids that no…
A poetic depiction of the desert as the provider of comfort, food, spirit, and life.
Pat Mora,George Ancona
Who doesn’t love a good celebration? Whether you’re marching in a pet parade or planning a masquerade, enjoying good times is always fun, especially when you can strut and ballyhoo…
Based on a true story, the story of a boy called Tomas who, when he tires of hearing his grandfather’s stories over and over again, finds a whole new world…
Children read aloud in various settings to celebrate of El daia de los nianos, or Children’s Day, in this bilingual story. Includes facts about Mexico’s annual celebration of children and…
A Mexican-American first-grader experiences the difficulties and pleasures of being different when she wears a tulip costume with all the colors of the rainbow for the school’s May Day parade…
With the help and interference of her cat Chica, Cecilia prepares a surprise gift for her great-aunt’s ninetieth birthday.
A rhyming text weaves together numbers from one to ten in English and Spanish as two sisters gather presents for their mama’s birthday from a Mexican market. –ALA Booklist. Full…
Pat Mora,Amelia Lau Carling
Original publication, Groundwood Books, 2008.
In Spanish. The renowned poet Pat Mora celebrates the culture and landscape of the Southwest through the eyes of a Mexican American girl.
Pat Mora,Amy Diane Prince
While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
An inspiring collection of Pat Mora’s own glorious poems celebrating a love of words and all the ways we use and interact with them: reading, speaking, writing, and singing –
Carmen Lomas Garza
Bilingual English/Spanish. In this Pura Belpre Honor-winning book, Carmen Lomas Garza tells the story of her childhood growing up in Kingsville, TX.
Pat Mora,Cecily Lang (Illustrator)
Each year on his birthday, a young Mexican American boy looks forward to seeing how his grandfather has decorated the tree he planted on the day the boy was adopted.
In this sweetly funny picture book, a tiny mouse, Chico Canta, saves his entire family from the clever kitten, Little Gato-Gato, when he uses his quick wits and ability to…
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