Pam Muñoz Ryan
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Read by Trini Alvarado
Approx. 4.5 hours
3 cassettes
When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without fancy dresses adn servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression....
Approx. 4.5 hours
3 cassettes
When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without fancy dresses adn servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression....
2) Echo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
4) El Niño
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a California summer, Kai, a competitive swimmer in training, learns about a legendary Amazonian queen, about El Nino and about letting go of grief.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
38 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tony and his big sister can go to the indoor camping event, Books and Buddies, if they are good--but being polite and helping each other for a whole day is difficult for this brother and sister.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and civil rights activist, who was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.
11) Esperanza renace
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
266 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tony Baloney and his school are celebrating pen pal month! Big Sister Baloney says her pen pal is always a friend for life. Tony Baloney hopes his pen pal will be a friend for life, too!"--Page [4] of cover.
14) Mañanaland
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
16) The dreamer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
372 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. Includes author's note about the poet.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (6hr.,31min.,21sec.))
Language
English
Description
In these hilarious stories by some of the top authors of middle grade fiction today, each young character is coping with a minor superpower—while also discovering their power to change themselves and their community, find their voice, and celebrate what makes them unique.Everyone knows that superheroes are supposed to have awesome powers like strength or invisibility or flight. But what happens when you’re a mostly regular kid . . . who’s just...