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Victoria Torres has always had a family birthday party that she shares with her beloved grandmother, but this year she is so impressed by her classmate's birthday party at GlamaRama, the mall's newest spa store, that she decides that she wants to celebrate her twelfth birthday there--and her mother refuses to do both.
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"Las hojas y calabazas del otoño están por todas partes. Carlos y Carmen están hacienda sus planes para participar en el concurso de disfraces. Ellos dos quieren ganar, pero ninguno de ellps quiere que el otro piedra. Es un problema. ¡Un problema digno de premio! Pero con una camisa vieja, unas tijeras. y muchísima creatividad, se les ocurre a los gemelos una solución digna de premio."--Back cover.
"Fall leaves and pumpkins are everywhere....
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Uncle Alex se apunta a la barbacoa de la familia García y trae una sorpresa. Una gran sorpresa verde. Al principio, Carlos y Carmen están decepcionados por esa sorpresa verde y abultada. Pero con la ayuda de su madre y con unas cuantas varillas y estacas, el bulto se convirtió en una sorpresa repleta de diversión.
For twins Carlos and Carmen, Uncle Alex's big green surprise turns into the best backyard camping experience ever.
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"It's the Fourth of July! That means fun, flags, and fireworks for the Garcia family. Unfortunately, those fireworks are a problem for Mamá and Carlos. Neither of them likes the loud booms and cracks that come with the sparkles. Readers will laugh when they see how the twins figure out a way for everyone to enjoy the sparkly night"--Page 4 of cover.
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A Carlos y a Carmen les cuesta conciliar el sueño en habitaciones separadas. Una vez resuelto ese problema, un ruido escalofriante les mantiene despiertos. Los gemelos acuden a sus padres para que les ayuden a resolver el misterio del ruido, que al final resultó ser algo nada aterrador.
The Garcia family has just moved into their new house, and twins Carlos and Carmen are having a hard time sleeping in their new rooms--especially when the hear...
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Carlos y Carmen quieren que su gata, Spooky, participe en el espectáculo de mascotas. Intentan enseñarle trucos a Spooky, pero a ella no le interesa. Intentan hacerle la gata más hermosa de todos, pero Spooky tiene otros planes. Justo cuando los gemelos están a punto de rendirse, les sugiere la solución perfecta para el problema con el espectáculo de mascotas.
"Carlos and Carmen want their cat, Spooky, to be in the pet show. They try to teach...
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Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles--and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal businesses grow. In 'Kids at Work', Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending. Drawing on dozens of interviews with children and their undocumented parents, as well as three...
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Sarai volume 4
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"When Sarai outgrows her bike, she worries she'll never get to travel anywhere. But when Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary host their first Around the World fair, Sarai learns that with a little imagination you can go anywhere you want!"--
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Cuando la tirada descontrolada de Carmen lanza el Hula Hoop volando por encima de la valla, los gemelos no saben cómo recuperarlo. Pero después, como por arte de magia, sus juguetes vuelven volando por encima de la valla. Poco después, hay un nuevo vecino asomándose la cabeza por encima de la valla de los Garcia. Únete a la diversión mientras Carlos y Carmen conocen a su nuevo vecino.
Summary: Twins Carmen and Carlos meet a new neighbor after...
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Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture. The English-Spanish text...
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Sofia is making a family time capsule, filled with pictures and mementos from their lives, to be opened in fifteen years, and Abuela contributes letters to each of her grandchildren--but Sofia is so consumed with curiosity that she decides to sneak a peak at what her letter says.
54) Lucky Luna
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Fifth grader Luna Ramos has a great many cousins, mostly on her father's side, but one of them, Claudia, is a source of constant annoyance; their current feud begins when Luna is punished for locking Claudia in the restroom at another cousin's quinceanera--but when there's a bullying situation at school, Luna realizes that, despite their disagreements, cousins have to stand up for each other.
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Es verano, -¡y la familia Garciá se va a la playa! Disfrutan brincando en las olas, construyendo castillos de arena, y, más que todo, encontrando tesoros. Aun se las arreglaron para llevar un poco de su diversión a casa para Uncle Alex y Spooky.
The Garcia family is off to the beach. They enjoy jumping in the waves, building sandcastles, and most of all, finding treasures. They even manage to bring a bit of their fun home to Tío Alex and Spooky....
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Carlos y Carmen no están segueros de que estés listos de quitar las rueditas de aprendizaje de sus bicicletas. Pero Papá está preparado de ayudar, y Mamá tiene una caja nueva de curitas. Los gemelos se aseguran el uno al otro y abrochan sus cascos. Y entonces las ruedan empiezan a tambalear.
Carlos and Carmen aren't sure they're ready to take the training wheels off their bikes. Papá is all set to help, and Mamá has a new box of Band-Aids....
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"Entérese cómo elegir la mejor escuela para sus chicos. Aprenda paso por paso cómo funciona el sistema educativo en los Estados Unidos. Aprenda cómo involucrarse en el proceso de aprendizaje de sus hijos. Sepa cuáles son sus derechos y responsabilidades como padre o madre"--P. [4] of cover.
59) Family pictures
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The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.
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