I Am Helpful Soy Acomedida

There are many nice things to do for those in need. This book presents several encouraging suggestions for helping others, from walking the dog to volunteering at a food bank. Relatable stories and engaging photographs explore many ways for readers to lend a helping hand in their homes, schools, and communities. Spanish translations by a native Spanish-speaking translator provides additional support for English language learners.

Learn about ways that you can be helpful, both at home and in your community.

Introduces kindness, and explains how and where to use kindness to help others.

Mexican American author Josie M&éndez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.

A story about twelve animals and how they stay clean in a dry parched environment, including a bobcat, a quail, and a roadrunner.

Fifteen years ago, Concha Delgado-Gaitan began literacy research in Carpinteria, California. At that time, Mexican immigrants who labored in nurseries, factories, and housekeeping, had almost no voice in how their children were educated. Committed to participative research, Delgado-Gaitan collaborated with the community to connect family, school, and community. Regular community gatherings gave birth to the Comit de Padres Latinos. Refusing the role of the victim, the Comit paticipants organized to reach out to everyone in the community, not just other Latino families. Bound by their language, cultural history, hard work, respect, pain, and hope, they created possibilities that supported the learning of Latino students, who until then had too often dropped out or shown scant interest in school. In a society that accentuates individualism and independence, these men and women look to their community for leadership, support, and resources for children. The Power of Community is a critical work that shows how communities that pull together and offer caring ears, eyes, and hands, can ensure that their children thrive--academically, socially, and personally. It offers a fresh approach and workable solution to the problems that face schools today.

This study examines a varied corpus of documentary and literary texts produced during the Miners revolution of October 1934 in Asturias.

Explores the ways in which the region has re-engaged globalization.

Pepita, a little girl who can converse in Spanish and English, decides not to "speak twice" until unanticipated problems cause her to think twice about her decision.