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A girl hopes her tooth will fall out so that she can have money to buy her father a birthday present. Includes index of Spanish words and phrases used in text.

Marisa picks out a butterfly pinata for her birthday party, but by the day of the party, she decides it is too beautiful to break.

Family members head into the kitchen to help Abuelita bake a tres leches cake for Papi's birthday. Family traditions are special, especially when they include baking a "delicioso" cake with your abuelita! This Step 2 Reader includes some words in Spanish! It's Papi's birthday! Which means it's time to get in the kitchen and bake the traditional family cake — Tres Leches! Together, we'll measure the ingredients and when some of it sticks to the...

It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen inches There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they...

Bilingual text describes a family as they sit down to a table filled with good food.

Presents six stories of children and their families facing everyday mysteries

Sixteen-year-old Emilia, secretly a dedicated gamer, competes with her elite team in a major tournament at the same time she and her best friend are running for class president and vice president.

After unexpectedly falling in love with a "nerdy" boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of her behavior, and losing weight.

A young girl's first sights and experiences in the United States are sometimes familiar "just like home."

Freddie Ramos uses his super powers to give himself courage to learn how to swim and to deal with a new neighbor who is a bully.