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

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

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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

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)

Meet the Silva kids, the Guerra boys, and the new Perez family who live on Ruiz Street. On a hot summer day, a new kid named David rides into the neighborhood. Gossip about the mysterious boy stretches longer than a wad of gum. The kids wonder why he rides a different bike everyday. 
Is he stealing them? He gets rough at the swimming pool, he scares the younger kids, and he spies over the fence. Why is he always so mean? Is it true that he eats a bee's nest for breakfast and sleeps on a bed of nails? What does he want from the kids who live on Ruiz Street and why in the world would they ever want to be friends with somebody like David? The young narrator, Joe Silva, introduces intermediate readers to both his friends and their common enemy on Ruiz Street. David doesn't have good people skills and doesn't know quite how to improve them. Can the other kids see beyond his faults and discover another side to the boy on the bike? Filled with humor and mystery, the Ruiz Street kids' adventures are sure to entertain as they try to understand the peculiar habits of the new boy named David. 
Like her previous books for intermediate readers, Alicia's Treasure and Upside Down and Backwards, Bertrand has written another book to get children talking about making new friends, sibling relationships, and the misconceptions of first impressions. Even the most reluctant readers will keep reading to discover what those Ruiz Street Kids plan to do about the newest kid on the block.

Ruiz Street Kids / Los Muchachos de la Calle Ruiz (Spanish and English Edition)

Arte Publico Press

When a postcard arrives from Uncle Chente saying that he will visit on the Fourth of July, the CÃ¡rdenas family happily awaits his visit. They plan a picnic with an array of Tejano food, ideal for a Texas picnic, and then they plan the decorations. The only thing they can't plan is the weather. 
Just before Uncle Chente arrives, mother nature threatens to rain out all their summer fun. The kids panic at the prospect of Uncle Chente's arrival on a rainy day. But, the kids soon discover that it takes more than a summer thunderstorm to ruin a beautiful day of fun-filled stories and time spent together. 
In the tradition of their previous collaboration, Family, Famiia, illustrator Pauline Rodriguez Howard and Gonzales Bertrand bring children aged 3 to 7 a story about family bonds so strong that even a rainy day makes the perfect picnic.

Uncle Chente's Picnic/El Picnic De Tio Chente (English and Spanish Edition)

Julia Mercedes Castilla

Pauline Rodriguez Howard

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