Eric Velasquez
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips....
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"The octopus Grandma is cooking has grown to titanic proportions. ¡Tenga cuidado! Ramsey shouts. Be careful! But it's too late. The octopus traps Grandma! Ramsey must use both art and intellect to free his beloved abuela. Then the story takes a surprising twist. And it can be read two ways. Open the fold-out pages to find Ramsey telling a story to his family. Keep the pages folded, and Ramsey's octopus adventure is real. This beautifully illustrated...
Author
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
Español
Description
The author describes his boyhood summers spent at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem where she intoduced him to the sounds and steps of the merengue and the conga and told him stories of Puerto Rico.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a boy's abuela accuses him of being careless with his beloved Bongo, he devises a trap and catches the toy thief red-handed"--
11) Octopus stew
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Ramsey dons his superhero cape to rescue Grandma from the huge octopus she is trying to cook--or is he simply telling a story? Includes author's note on the story's origin and a recipe for Octopus stew.
12) Buscando a Bongo
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Spanish language edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
Español
Description
"When a boy's abuela accuses him of being careless with his beloved Bongo, he devises a trap and catches the toy thief red-handed"--
13) Grandma's gift
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
Author
Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 19
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
73 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Author
Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 20
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
With Sally Kimball, his pretty but tough assistant, Encyclopedia Brown investigates ten mysteries, solving cases ranging from Pablo's missing nose to racing reptiles that become snacks for snakes.
16) The rain stomper
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When it begins to rain and storm on the day of her big parade, Jazmin stomps, shouts, and does all she can think of to drive the rain away.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of Harry Houdini, whose dramatic style and amazing physical abilties made him one of the most famous magicians and contortionists of all time.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of their divided country.
Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know that they need to bring their mother back in order to save their sister's life. Bravely, secretly, they set off...
20) New shoes
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this historical fiction picture book, Ella Mae and her cousin Charlotte, both African American, start their own shoe store when they learn that they cannot try on shoes at the shoe store"--