A young Mexican American girl celebrates the paleta, an icy fruit popsicle, and the many roles it plays in her lively barrio.

Collects short stories featuring Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase and Carter and Sadie Kane, including "The Staff of Serapis," in which Annabeth Chase and Sadie Kane team up to tackle a power-hungry god from the ancient world.

A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.

Inspired by a collection of garden poems, Lola wants to grow her own garden of silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids in a row. Lola plants a flower garden with her parent's help, and watches it grow. Spanish translation of English summary: Inspirada en una colección de poemas de jardín, Lola quiere cultivar su propio jardín de campanas de plata y cáscaras de berberechos y bonitas criadas en fila. Lola planta un jardín de flores con...

Lazlo, who has just moved to the United States from Hungary, is ostracized at school until two girls have the courage to befriend him.

The whole Martinez family is shopping for back-to-school supplies, and Sofia is excited by the colorful backpacks and fancy notebooks--but excitement turns to alarm when four-year-old Manuel disappears.

Durante la Gran Depresión, Bud, un niño que tiene 10 años, se escapa de su familia adoptiva y va en búsqueda de su padre. Bud cree que su padre es un gran músico. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

A spunky young girl explains the many uses of her mother's red rebozo, a traditional Mexican woven shawl. Una valiente niña explica los múltiples usos de el rebozo rojo de su madre, un chal tejido tradicional mexicano.

In this folktale from the New Southwest, a rich man tries to prove his wealth by using a new spoon for every bite and in the process is served a pretty dish of comeuppance.

Stella Diaz loves marine animals, especially her betta fish, Pancho. But Stella Diaz is not a betta fish. Betta fish like to be alone, while Stella loves spending time with her mom and brother and her best friend Jenny. Trouble is, Jenny is in another class this year, and Stella feels very lonely. When a new boy arrives in Stella's class, she really wants to be his friend, but sometimes Stella accidentally speaks Spanish instead of English and pronounces...