Jorge Argueta
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Mart©Ưnez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave -- the hope that lies behind their decision, but also the terrible sadness of leaving home. We learn about how far and hard the trip is, but also about the kindness of those along the way. Finally, once the caravan arrives...
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
In this new cooking poem, Jorge Argueta brings us a fun and easy recipe for a yummy salsa. A young boy and his sister gather the ingredients and grind them up in a molcajete, just like their ancestors used to do, singing and dancing all the while.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2017].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Describe - en ingl©♭s, espa©łol y n©Łhuat - el ciclo de vida del agua desde la perspectiva de una gota.
"Describes--in English, Spanish, and Nahuat--the life cycle of water from the perspective of one drop"--
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"My name is Earth / but people call me Little Earth." In the fourth installment of their award-winning Madre Tierra / Mother Earth series of trilingual picture books about the natural world, Jorge Argueta and Felipe Ugalde Alcántara collaborate again to introduce Mother Earth, who is "full of all the colors / and all the flavors." She is the mother of water, fire, wind and earth. Some call her planet, others nature or creation. "I am Mother Earth...
Author
Series
Serie Madre Tierra = Mother Earth volume 3
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Describes--in Spanish, English, and Nahuat--the power of wind from the perspective of a mischievous youngster"--
10) Moony Luna
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Five-year old Luna is afraid she'll find monsters at her new school until a kind teacher and her new classmates show her that she has nothing to fear.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A recipe, in poem form, for young and old to prepare a pot of tummy-filling bean soup.
Sumario en español: Una receta, en forma de poema, para jóvenes y viejos para preparar una olla de barriga-llenado sopa de frijol.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Jimena loves El Salvador but when gangs threaten to force her to join, she and her mother immigrate to the United States, but are separated at the border.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Provides a poetic recipe for rice pudding that not only offers instructions for making the treat but highlights the ways in which it can delight all the senses.
En este delicioso libro, el poeta Jorge Arguita nos brinda su receta preferida de arroz con leche. Esta receta es al mismo tiempo fácil de preparar y toda una experiencia poética para todos los sentidos y la imaginación.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Provides a poetic recipe for cheese tamalitos that not only offers instructions for making them but highlights the importance of corn in the foodways of the Americas.
Hacer tamalitos de maíz es delicioso y muy fácil. En este entretenido poema para cocinar, un hermano y una hermana te enseñan a preparar la masa y a rellenarla con queso, antes de envolverla en tuzas. En un lenguaje poético accesible, Jorge Argueta nos habla del maíz: de su aspecto...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador, create a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind their apartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Luna's Press Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Olita ha llegado de visita de los Estados Unidos a El Salvador. Su primo, amigos y tía la invitan al cumpleaños de Manyula. Rumbo a la fiesta caminan bajo la lluvia tibia, saltan charcos y van conociendo lugares históricos del barrio de San Jacinto. Al llegar a la casa de Manyula, Olita se encuentra con una gigantesca sorpresa. Todos se divierten al ver a Manyula bailar y comer su enorme pastel. Este es el gran cumpleaños que Olita nunca olvidará.
Olita...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alfredito and his family are getting ready to return to El Salvador for Christmas. It will be their first visit back since they left as refugees and made their way to California on foot. But this time they're flying!
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave -- the hope that lies behind their decision, but also the terrible sadness of leaving home. We learn about how far and hard the trip is, but also about the kindness of those along the way. Finally, once the caravan arrives...