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Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 105
Publisher
Editorial Noguer
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
Ever since his mother drowned, Mafatu, a 15-year-old Polynesian boy, has had a profound fear of the sea. One day he finds an inner strength to overcome his terror.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.
Sumario en español: En este recuento chistoso de un folktale cubano, una cucarachita se entrevista a sus pretendientes para decidir quién para casar.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells, in parallel English and Spanish text, the traditional Hispanic American tale of a proud and beautiful woman who, in a fit of jealousy, commits a terrible act and then cannot stop weeping for it, even after she is dead.
15) El tesoro
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
In this variation on the old English folktale, a teeny tiny teacher takes a teeny tiny bone back to her classroom, and the class subsequently is disrupted by a teeny tiny voice asking for the bone back.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of classic tales from New Mexico, including "Pedro and Diablo," "La Hormiguita," "La Llorona," and "Juan Camisón," in both Spanish and English.
Una colección de historias clásicas de Nuevo México, inlcuyendo "Pedro y el Diablo," "La Hormiguita." 'La llorrona," y Juan Camisón".
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Recounts Ponciano's run-in with Vicente Silva and his bandits, who history confirms murdered, stole, and rustled cattle throughout the 1880s. It's the story of a farmer outwitting Silva in a folktale that shapes our understanding of the cultures of northern New Mexico"--