![Mai Ya's Long Journey](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0870203657.jpg?itok=-6nOA2Ls)
Mai Ya’s Long Journey
![Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town (Young Readers Edition)](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0385741944.jpg?itok=6PnQbb5L)
![When I Get Older: The Story behind "Wavin' Flag"](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1770493026.jpg?itok=fnVKiSrZ)
When I Get Older: The Story behind “Wavin’ Flag”
![La Boda: A Mexican Wedding Celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316896268.jpg?itok=YNwfwqMK)
Maria looks to her grandmother to explain the rituals and traditions she observes at her first wedding. Their conversation, sprinkled with Spanish words, is carried by the evocative illustrations that depict this Zapotec Indian wedding celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico. A helpful Spanish glossary and an introduction to Zapotec culture and religion are included.
La Boda: A Mexican Wedding Celebration
![El Chino](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0395778751.jpg?itok=goK7wngE)
This remarkable story is based on the life of Billy Wong, a Chinese-American who travels to Europe, becomes fascinated with bullfighting, and decides to become a matador. Eventually, Billy’s determination and recognition of what makes him unique helps him realize his dream. Luminous watercolors illustrate this sensitive picture book biography.
El Chino
![A Picture Book of Louis Braille](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0823414132.jpg?itok=Fbg2bdfH)
The story of Louis Braille, the Frenchman who invented the raised-dot alphabet/code now used around the world by blind and visually impaired readers. The text traces Braille’s life from the childhood accident that caused him to lose his sight through his career at the National Institute for Blind Children in Paris. Readers can feel the alphabet and numbers from 1-10 at the back of the book.
A Picture Book of Louis Braille
![Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805091084.jpg?itok=ULhHkCWP)
With a light touch, readers meet Thomas Alva Edison in his world of research and development. It was Edison’s lab that led to things we take for granted today. For example, today we have all kinds of batteries but it all started with Edison’s nickel-iron storage battery. Cartoon illustrations add humor to this lighthearted but informative look at this inventor and his work.
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives
![Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1596435291.jpg?itok=GwUYdVX6)
Born in 1923 in Strasbourg, France, Marcel Mangel grew up watching silent movies. When he was 16 years old, World War II started. Marcel joined the resistance movement, heroically helped people, and changed his name to Marceau. Understated narration combines with expressive illustrations to evoke the changes in Marcel’s life while capturing his voiceless acting.
Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words
![Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1590787218.jpg?itok=Eq6XwfhG)
Molly was a cook at a firehouse but a snowstorm and influenza in 19th century New York turned Molly into a firefighter. Her quick thinking and moxie made her volunteer service as good as any man’s. Animated language and lively illustrations bring the person and her time into focus. Endnotes separate fact and fiction and provide additional resources and information.
Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter
![Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0547612184.jpg?itok=bczBqvvl)
Martin and his sister grew up in a Lima, Peru, barrio, children of an African slave and a Spanish nobleman. Martin was apprenticed to a cirujano, would join a Dominican monastery, and later become sought after as a healer. Jewel-like illustrations complement the accessible telling to reveal a man of faith and courage, despite the prejudices he confronted.
Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert
![It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1600602606.jpg?itok=s_G9F3f0)
A former slave and sharecropper Bill Traylor moved to the city after his wife’s death. Though he stored up memories of farm life and family, Traylor only began creating art in his 80s when he was homeless. Another artist, Charles Shannon, championed Traylor’s work. Traylor is now considered among the most significant of self-taught folk artists.
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
![If You Spent the Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805091378.jpg?itok=Iff-Tr-x)
Who is Henry David Thoreau? What would it be like to spend a day with him? A contemporary boy depicted in blue jeans and a t-shirt knocks at his door and meets the 19th century Thoreau, as the imaginative text fills in what it might have been like. Expressive illustrations, quotes, and gentle interpretations bring Thoreau and his world to light for younger readers.
If You Spent the Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond
![I, Galileo](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375867538.jpg?itok=PvqwFegA)
The voice of an old, blind Galileo Galilei is used to look back on a life that started in Pisa where early on he challenged tradition. Though confined, the elderly Galileo asserts that, “The truth has a way of escaping into the light.” Bold lines border illustrations to evoke time and place, enhanced by spot illustrations of Galileo’s work and observations.
I, Galileo
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Bold, bright illustrations and a cheerful text that includes song lyrics introduce the life of an early 20th century African American performer. Though part of the Harlem Renaissance, Mills is a relative unknown who both on and off stage worked to help other African Americans and those who were less fortunate than she. An author’s note concludes this charming life sketch.
Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
![From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1596435429.jpg?itok=WThz7tQ4)
The world changed when rags and bone, sticky stuff, and other things came together in the hands of a man who lived in the German city of Mainz. Johannes Gutenberg had printed a book in a new way. Readers will be drawn in as the elements Gutenberg used unfold, illustrated in handsome, realistic illustrations. An epilogue completes this intriguing book.
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
![Putumayo Kids Presents: Brazilian Playground](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/B000S0KYGW.jpg?itok=hFRsL5ZF)
Putumayo Kids Presents: Brazilian Playground
![Putumayo Kids Presents: Latin Playground](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/B000066RKP.jpg?itok=BCaFv6b4)
Putumayo Kids Presents: Latin Playground
![¡Pío Peep! Book and CD](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0061116661.jpg?itok=bHKoxM5Y)
Product Description: Alma Flor Ada’s groundbreaking bilingual collection of rhymes from Spain and Latin America repackaged with a compact disc containing recordings of the included pieces.
¡Pío Peep! Book and CD
![De Colores: Sing Along in English and Spanish!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316065633.jpg?itok=EzSlQWre)
De Colores: Sing Along in English and Spanish!
![Esta Es Mi Tierra/This Land Is My Land](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/B00000AG66.jpg?itok=oUHZHPkz)
Esta Es Mi Tierra/This Land Is My Land
![Corridos Mexicanos y Chicanos/Mexican & Chicano Ballads](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/B000N0R3ZW.jpg?itok=ZBhSp4Vn)
Corridos Mexicanos y Chicanos/Mexican & Chicano Ballads
![De Colores and Other Latin American Folk Songs](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/B00000AG6C.jpg?itok=SvZrx0Rs)
De Colores and Other Latin American Folk Songs
![Arrullos/Lullabies in Spanish](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/B002OSWX24.jpg?itok=uh3bsboz)
Arrullos/Lullabies in Spanish
![Fiestas/Celebration Songs](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/B00000AG68.jpg?itok=Bu8tlMNj)