Popular young-adult author Diane Gonzales Bertrand has scored a touchdown with this story of student teacher Kaylene Morales and her surprise reunion with old friend Alex Garrison, now a coach and fellow instructor at Leon Creek High School. Teenaged readers will rapidly become immersed in enjoyable scenes of football games, pizza dinners, school parties, family arguments, and locker-room banter. At the same time, they may find themselves pondering such dilemmas as the conflicts between athletic and academic demands and between professional duties and personal aspirations.

Lessons of the Game

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

Bt Bound

Close to the Heart

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Tandem Library

Seventh-grader Trino Olivares likes video games a lot more than he likes books. In fact, he doesn't have much use for most "school types". But when Rosca, an older teen with a vicious streak, invites Trino to start hanging out with his crowd -- and maybe make some quick money, too -- the younger boy doesn't know what to think. With little help from any adults, it's up to Trino to decide which choices will impress his friends -- and which choices are the best for Trino. A dramatic story about the difficult problems that children today face -- often with little guidance -- and the sometimes deadly consequences that can result.

Trino's Choice

Perfection Learning

Sip, Slurp, Soup Soup/Caldo Caldo Caldo CD and Book Set (English and Spanish Edition)

Read by Kristine Klanderud

Lorito Books

Sip, Slurp, Soup, Soup/Caldo, Caldo, Caldo (Hardcover Book & CD) (English and Spanish Edition)

Kristine Klanderud/Reader

El dilema de Trino

RECORDED BOOKS^

A bilingual picture book offers up a celebration of a kitchen where mom has just pulled out the large stew pot to begin a fabulous vegetable soup and all the kids are invited to help.

Caldo, Caldo, Caldo/Sip, Slurp, Soup, Soup (English and Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Arte Publico Pr

Sweet Fifteen

Young Daniel doesn't share his dad's excitement over going to the family reunion. What's the big deal? It's just going to be a bunch of old people he doesn't know, sitting around and telling stories about other old people he doesn't know. Once there, though, Daniel is in for several pleasant surprises.

Family, Familia (English and Spanish Edition)

Julia Mercedes Castilla

Education & Reference

Pinata Books

Popular young adult and children’s author Diane Gonzales Bertrand writes another charming bilingual children’s tale that blends cultural traditions in the book The Last Doll / La última muñeca. Toys today can walk and talk, run and jump, boom and vroom, glow and crow. So how is a classy doll in a room full of robots to compete? The beautiful, but old-fashioned, Sarita sadly watches as her shelf-mates are purchased by eager shoppers and taken home. She looks out through the dust-covered plastic of her box, and she worries that she will be the last one. Every day she preens and puts her best porcelain face forward, but every evening, she remains on the shelf. Finally one day, a tall man in a black mustache decides that she is perfect, and that she absolutely must be the last doll for his godchild, Teresa, on her quinceañera. Sarita’'s alarm at still being last quickly shifts to pride when she realizes that sometimes people save the best for last. Together, the heartwarming tale and the lovingly depicted illustrations offer the reader a glimpse into this special day in the life of the young girl Teresa, her godparents, her family, her friends – and, of course, Sarita, her última muñeca.

La Ultima Muneca / The Last Doll (Pinata Bilingual Picture Books) (English and Spanish Edition)

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