El sueño de Lizzie (Lizzie's Dream)

When asked to deliver contraband papers to her native island home of Cuba in 1852, twenty-year-old Emilia Casanova gulped audibly in a most unladylike manner. This was her chance to be in the thick of the rebellion against Spanish authority, something she had always dreamed of, instead of on the sidelines more befitting someone of her station. Even though she would be branded a traitor and endanger her family if she was caught, she pushed her fear aside and accepted the mission. Back in Cuba following her first summer abroad, distributing seditious propaganda isn't as easy as it had seemed...

After helping her grandfather plant squash, onions, carrots, cabbage, and other vegetables that her mother uses in soups and salsas, seven-year-old Marisol plants sunflower seeds in her neighbors' yards, and weeks later, everyone gets to enjoy the fruitsof Marisol's labor.

Cecilia Borac es una famosa escritora, amada y respetada por sus seguidores. Tiene un don. Sus palabras están destinadas a aliviar y a calmar el dolor, incluso el de las almas más rotas. Pero lo que nadie sabe es que también es una sobreviviente, y ahora las heridas que mantiene bajo su piel la hacen tambalearse. ¿Quién es en verdad esta mujer? ¿Quién se esconde detrás de esa figura idílica y perfecta y casi irreal? ¿De dónde salen esas palabras destinadas a coser heridas? Quizá las respuestas están en las estrellas que habitan su piel. Quizá el silencio tiene algo para decir,...

"All Around Us begs to be shared over and over."—Yuyi Morales "A transcendent, perfectly gorgeous book."—Naomi Shihab Nye ALSC Notable Children’s Book 2018 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book2018 American Indian Youth Literature Award: Picture Book Honor Best Picture Book, Texas Institute of Letters 2017 Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award Grandpa says circles are all around us. He points to the rainbow that rises high in the sky after a thundercloud has come. "Can you see? That's only half of the circle. That rest of it is down below, in the earth." He and his granddaughter meditate...