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(0)Edel Rodriguez
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Description
Although Sergio the penguin loves to play soccer, he is very clumsy and uncoordinated and he practices day and night, hoping he can help his team win the big game against the Seagulls.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there. Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine,...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Explores the scientific relevance of an exotic frog, Rhinoderma darwinii, discovered by Charles Darwin in 1834, describing how researchers came to the surprising realization that the males of the species care for their developing young.--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Once there was a boy named Leonard who loved to sing and to act. His parents were immigrants who felt like aliens in America, and certainly didn't understand Leonard's drive to perform. "Learn to play the accordion," his father told him. "Actors starve, but at least musicians can eke out a living." But Leonard reached for the stars ... and caught them. He moved to Hollywood, where he took acting lessons, and drove a taxi and took every role he could...
7) Oye, Celia!
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhythmic text celebrate the life and music of singer Celia Cruz, as a young fan attends a neighborhood dance party and hears loss, happiness, Latin American culture, and more in her voice and lyrics. Includes translations of Spanish words used.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring and timely story of Sonia Sotomayor, who rose up from a childhood of poverty and prejudice to become the first Latino to be nominated to the US Supreme Court. Before Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took her seat in our nation's highest court, she was just a little girl in the South Bronx. Justice Sotomayor didn't have a lot growing up, but she had what she needed -- her mother's love, a will to learn, and her own determination....
