Elisa Amado

After a young girl, who recently came with her family from Mexico, makes a best friend at her school, she invites the girl to her house and is unhappy when she realizes that her friend is uncomfortable, but her friend reassures her that she accepts the girl for who she is.

Listed as one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus, honored with the Horn Book Fanfare, and selected for the School Library Journal's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2012 Jimmy lives in a small town by the sea where there is just one tiny gym. The owner of the gym suggests that Jimmy start training, and to inspire him, he gives Jimmy a box full of books, as well as newspaper clippings about Muhammad Ali - "The Greatest." Jimmy is swept...

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border.They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to...

Provides a poetic recipe for making salsa by grinding the ingredients together on a black lava mocaljete as the early Mesoamericans did.

A young girl who misses her father who is working overseas and looks forward to his weekly phone calls, is confused by her mixed feelings after he asks if she would like to come with her mother to live with him.