Cinco Puntos Press: 90 books
by Marcie R. Rendon
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
This is the second book featuring Marcie's unforgettable character Cash. Cash is a former foster child, college student, seasonal truck driver and a member of Minnesota's White Earth reservation. This book introduces Cash's brother, the first familiy connection Marcie has revealed to readers.
Marcie...
ABeCedarios
Mexican Folk Art ABCs in English and Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Every ABC book worth its cover price is bound to have bright colors and big letters. But not every ABC book has magical hand-carved animals to illustrate every letter. And very few alphabet books present those letters in more varieties than English! Very few alphabet books except the ABeCedarios,...
Animal Talk
Mexican Folk Art Animal Sounds in English and Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Did you know that animals that live in one country don't always talk the same language as animals from somewhere else? Take a rooster, for instance. In English-speaking countries, he says cock-a-doodle-doo when he has a notion to announce himself or to greet the dawn. But in Spanish-speaking countries,...
Mi Familia Calaca / My Skeleton Family
A Mexican Folk Art Family in English and Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Welcome to the family! It's just like yours: father, mother, sister, brother, abuelita, gato, even a great-great grandmother. Well, but there's something just a little bit different about this particular family. Maybe it's those clothes they wear . . . just a little bit fashion backward. And the colors!...
They Call Me Güero
A Border Kid's Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Pura Belpré Author Honor Book, 2019
ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019
Walter Award Honor Book, 2019
Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, Bank Street 2019
NCTE 2019 Notable Verse Novels
Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
TIL Jean...
Sélavi, That is Life
A Haitian Story of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The true story of Selavi (“that is life”), a small boy who finds himself homeless on the streets of Haiti. He finds other street children who share their food and a place to sleep. Together they proclaim a message of hope through murals and radio programs. Now in paper, this beautifully illustrated...
La Llorona/The Weeping Woman
An Hispanic Legend Told in Spanish and English
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
La Llorona (yoh-RROH-nah) / The Weeping Woman is the ghost story to end all ghost stories, capturing the minds of both kids and adults in the U.S. and Mexico. In Spanish and English, master storyteller JOE HAYES retells the tale of a beautiful woman whose fear and jealousy dooms her to an eternal...
by Phillippe Diederich
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where...
Festival of the Bones / El Festival de las Calaveras
The Book for the Day of the Dead
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Mexico’s Day of the Dead fascinates U.S readers, whether for its joyful celebration of an unusual tradition or because it simply feels like home. San Vicente lets children join the celebration as they watch the skeletons rock, rattle, and roll those long old bones as they get ready for the biggest...
by Eve Tal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The dream was always the same: I was back in Russia. My family was sitting around the Sabbath table: Mama, Papa, baby Hannah and my brothers Lemmel and Shloyme. I was telling a story about America—there were gold streets and chickens roosting in trees. Suddenly, Papa and I were on board a ship sailing...
Lucha Libre: The Man in the Silver Mask
A Bilingual Cuento
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In Xavier Garza’s bilingual kids’ book, young Carlitos attends his first lucha libre match in Mexico City. At ringside, Carlitos sees the famous luchador—the Man in the Silver Mask, a man whose eyes look terribly familiar. The masked wrestler even smiles at Carlitos! He is mesmerized as the...
by Kevin Waltman
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
In Indiana, basketball is the next thing to religion. Especially for inner-city black kids like Derrick Bowen. He's a 6'3" freshman, lightning quick, and he can slam the rock. He wants to start at point guard for Marion High, but senior Nick Starks has that nailed down. Besides, the coach is...
Dirty Dealing
Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
"Cartwright tells the story of the Chagra brothers, Lee and Joe, as they get mixed up with the drug-running community along the border and in short order find themselves hopelessly entangled in a net cast by the DEA. Even readers unfamiliar with the well-publicized events of the book or of the...
Drug Lord: A True Story
The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
"Drug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable."-Don Winslow, author of The Power of Dog and California Fire and Life
"The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger...