Eleven-year-old Cesi knows all about her mother's Cherokee and Irish family but little about her father's Mexican heritage, and when she finds no answers at home in California, she sets out alone for
Author Rolando Hinojosa takes us inside the politics of a tumultuous university campus set in a quiet university town on the Texas-Mexico border.The chaotic politics of faculty promotions and tenure,
Since Grandma's recent death, Mama often cries and Grandpa sits motionless in his chair staring out the window, but Lorena, who also misses Grandma, hopes the keepsakes in Grandma's carved chest will
Monica, who wants to be a baker like her grandmother, finds the doll hidden in the bread on the feast for the Three Kings and thus gets to bake cookies for the next fiesta.
Recounts the life and baseball career of the star first baseman, and discusses his health and legal problems and his experiences after retiring from active play.
Two cousins go on an impromptu journey from northern Arizona to Santa Fe, New Mexico when their grandmother gets sick, and their experiences along the way give them invaluable insights about life, fam
"On her death bed, Huitzitzilin, an old woman of royal Mexican heritage, tells young Father Benito of her life, what the Aztec culture was like before the arrival of the Spanish, and how an initial al
The author recounts growing up in Miami's Little Havana, his struggle to come to terms with American culture, his eventual estrangement from his family, and his feelings about his native country.
A collection of stories about young girls who as Cuban immigrants to the United States grow in confidence and spirit as they confront painful challenges, meeting them head-on.
A story of forbidden love follows the fortunes of four generations of the Betancourt family and their connection with a Tarahumara Indian named Jeronimo Santiago, who works on the Betancourt hacienda.
Cuando el papaa le enseana al Cuervito a guardarse de los humanos tramposos, los que arrojan piedras, Cuervito comparte una idea que causa que todos los cuervos lo proclamen genio y que altera su fut
When a young boy and his mother come to the United States from El Salvador, leaving his father behind, the boy misses his father very much and wants to do something special to show him how much he car
