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Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés

Created on April 27, 2022, 1:20 pm

Last Updated August 12, 2024, 2:30 pm

Children's and middle grade novels available in both English and Spanish (including translations and classic titles). Audience: school age children, teachers, and parents. Created by Klem-Marí Cajigas, Family Literacy Coordinator, BBTL. Last updated: December 2023---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Novelas juveniles y novelas para estudiantes de grados intermedios disponibles en inglés y español (incluyendo traducciones y obras clasicas). Audiencia: niños de grados escolares, maestras y maestros, y padres de familia. Creado por Klem-Marí Cajigas, Family Literacy Coordinator, BBTL. Ultima actuualizacion: diciembre 2023.

41) El soñador

Author

Ryan, Pam Muñoz

Series

Scholastic en español

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

A fictionalized biography of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who grew up as a painfully shy child ridiculed by his overbearing father.

42) The dreamer

Author

Ryan, Pam Muñoz

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

Description

A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

43) La travesía de Santiago

Author

Diaz, Alexandra

Description

La cama cruje bajo el peso del cuerpo tembloroso de Santiago. Dicen que la vida de una persona pasa por su mente antes de morir. Pero esto no es toda su vida. Son solo los acontecimientos que lo llevaron a esta situación. Los más importantes y los que Santiago quisiera olvidar.

44) Santiago's road home

Author

Diaz, Alexandra

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

Description

Santiago is fleeing from abusive relatives when he meets María Dolores and her young daughter, Alegría. He decides to accompany them on the dangerous trek from Mexico to the United States, but when he's brought to an immigration detention center, Santiago discovers that the danger isn't over.

45) Una larga travesía hasta el agua

Author

Park, Linda Sue

Description

Una larga travesía hasta el agua, best-seller del New York Times, comienza como dos historias, que se van alternando, sobre dos niños de once años en Sudán, una niña en 2008 y un niño en 1985. La niña, Nya, va a buscar agua a un estanque que está a dos horas de caminata desde su hogar; cada día, hace dos viajes hasta el estanque. El niño, Salva, se convierte en uno de los "niños perdidos" de Sudán, refugiados que recorren a...

46) A long walk to water: a novel

Author

Park, Linda Sue

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway

Description

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Author

Description

"Ross es un chico normal que debe enfrentarse a una situación extraordinaria. Un día, le diagnostican cáncer de ojo, y a partir de ese momento, su vida cambiará por completo. Descubrirá que hay partes de él que se alterarán, pero también sus amigos, sus compañeros de colegio, su familia... Todos mirarán al "niño con cáncer" como un bicho raro, y sólo él podrá tomar la decisión más importante posible, demostrarse a...

48) Wink

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Talking Book, eAudiobook

Description

After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can push him through treatment and survive middle school.

49) Gracias a Winn-Dixie

Author

DiCamillo, Kate

Description

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

50) Lupe wong no baila

Author

Higuera, Donna Barba

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

Description

Lupe Wong needs an A in all of her classes in order to meet her favorite baseball pitcher, but when square dancing is introduced in gym, it might just bring her demise.

51) El libro del cementerio

Author

Series

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

Description

Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

52) The graveyard book

Author

Series

Unabridged fiction on CD

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book, Kit

Description

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, bring raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace...

53) Al Capone does my shirts

Author

Choldenko, Gennifer

Series

Al Capone at Alcatraz volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book

Description

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

54) Al Capone me lava la ropa

Author

Choldenko, Gennifer

Description

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

55) Las estrellas bajo nuestros pies

Author

Moore, David Barclay

Description

"Es Nochebuena en Harlem, pero Lolly Rachpaul de doce años y su madre no celebrarán esta noche. Todavía se están recuperando de la muerte del hermano mayor a causa de un tiroteo relacionado a una pandilla hace unos meses atrás. Luego la amiga de la madre de Lolly le trae un regalo que lo cambiará todo: dos bolsas enormes llenas de Legos. A Lolly siempre le ha encantado armar Legos y se enorgullece en seguir estrictamente las instrucciones...

56) James y el melocotón gigante

Author

Series

Alfaguara clásicos

Description

James es un niño huérfano que vive con dos tías muy severas que le hacen la vida imposible. Pero un día, un extraño personaje le regala un cucurucho de bolitas mágicas que hacen crecer sorprendentemente al viejo melocotonero del patio. Montado en un melocotón gigante, James inicia un viaje fascinante por el mundo entero.

57) Estás ahí, Dios? Soy yo, Margaret

Author

Series

Travesía (Editorial Océano de México)

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

58) Are you there God? It's me, Margaret

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

59) Los Watson van a Birmingham--1963

Author

Curtis, Christopher Paul

60) The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

Author

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book, Kit

Description

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement. When the Watson family--ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron--sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don't realize that they're heading toward one of the darkest moments in America's history. The...