Mora, Pat

While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tom?s finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.

A young multiracial boy tells about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful. In Spanish and English.

Poems that describe the landscape, people, and animals of the American Southwest.

With the help and interference of her cat Chica, Cecilia prepares a surprise gift for her great-aunt's ninetieth birthday.

A Mexican-American first-grader experiences the difficulties and pleasures of being different when she wears a tulip costume with all the colors of the rainbow for the school May Day parade.

Presents an illustrated biography of seventeenth-century Mexican poet Juana Ines, a women learned in many subjects who became a nun later in life.

In this poem in English and Spanish, lizards, armadillos, and other creatures of the night make merry beneath the desert moon, enjoying the strains of a mariachi band and gobbling lots of delicious food.

When the moon falls into the ocean, it rises again with the aid of fish.

More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as "The Young Sor Juana," "Graduation Morning," "Border Town 1938," "Legal Alien," "Abuelita Magic," and "In the Blood.".

A guide for teachers and librarians that is written in the form of letters, describing seven practices to improve creativity and activities to encourage creativity from students.