Jorge Argueta
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
Español
Description
A recipe, in poem form, for young and old to prepare a pot of tummy-filling bean soup.
Sumario en espa~nol: Una receta, en forma de poema, para jovenes y viejos para preparar una olla de barriga-llenado sopa de frijol.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
Español
Description
Little Water rises from deep in the Earth, where he was born, and makes his way through the watery depths, to the surface, and on up into the sky, before returning to the Earth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
Español
Description
"Describes--in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl--the characteristics of fire from the perspective of one little spark"--
From its birth as a spark, Little Fire flits like a firefly and plays hide and seek inside a volcano. He grows between two sticks rubbed together or on a stone that strikes another. Little Fire is red, yellow, orange and turquoise. "I look like the sun / but I am no sun. / I am Fire, Little Fire / who laughs, / who dances." Little...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Why are young people leaving their country to walk to the United States to seek a new, safe home? Over 100,000 such children have left Central America. This book of poetry helps us to understand why and what it is like to be them.
¿Por qué los jóvenes que salen de su país para caminar a los Estados Unidos para buscar un hogar nuevo y seguro? Más de 100.000 niños han salido de Centroamérica. Este libro de poesía nos ayuda a entender...
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
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.
"Ten-year-old Jimena Pérez loves life with her parents in El Salvador. They sell fruit at the market, just like her grandmother and great grandmother did. "Fruits / are a blessing / like you, Jimena," her mother tells her. But one day a group of boys threaten her friend Rosenda at...
6) Moony Luna
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
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
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Poems in Spanish and English describe the author's boyhood as a refugee from rural El Salvador living in San Francisco's Mission District, where he had to cope with a new language, a new culture, and a very different way of life.
8) Zipitio
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rufina's mother helps her deal with Zipitio when he falls in love with her.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, an imprint of House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
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
Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
Español
Description
A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta's gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure -- avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor. As in the previous cooking poems, "Guacamole" conveys the fun and pleasure...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
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
Publisher
Groundwood Books / Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy's mother has always warned him not to eat before going to bed and not to sleep with his hands crossed on his chest or he would have nightmares, but one night he decides not to listen and finds himself lost in a dream.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
Español
Description
Having left their homeland and moved to California as refugees many years ago, Alfredito and his family are excited about their upcoming flight to El Salvador where they plan to celebrate Christmas on their native soil with their family and friends.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"My name / is Water / but everyone / calls me Little Water." In this beautiful, poetic ode to the life-giving force of water, award-winning children's book author Jorge Argueta describes in English, Spanish and Nahuat the life cycle of water from the perspective of one drop. From its birth deep in Mother Earth, Little Water climbs to the surface, passing through roots and rocks, light and darkness. Finally, the tiny bead of water makes it to the top...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With Mother's Day coming, Antonio finds he has to decide about what is important to him when his classmates make fun of the unusual appearance of his mother's partner, Leslie.