Yuyi Morales
1) Dreamers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
2) Bright star
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 330L
Language
English
Description
"A nurturing voice reassures the lonely and afraid in difficult times."--
3) Viva Frida!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Via spare text, examines Kahlo's creative process.
5) Soñadores
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"This Spanish edition of Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales's Dreamers, published simultaneously with the English edition, is the author's own immigration story and a tribute to the transformative power of hope. and reading. In 1994, 25-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Xalapa, Mexico, to the San Francisco Bay Area with her two-month-old son, Kelly, in order to secure permanent residency in this country. Her passage was not easy and she...
6) Lucero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Una cervatilla se adentra en el mundo por primera vez con pasos inciertos. Respira profundo y experimenta nuevas visiones y sonidos mientras una dulce voz la anima a lo largo del camino. Ella observa y escucha, a medida que explora el paisaje lleno de vida de la frontera, y aprende a hacerse oír cuando se enfrenta a una barrera al parecer infranqueable."--
"A nurturing voice reassures the lonely and afraid in difficult times"--
9) Bright Star
Author
Language
English
Description
Child, you are awake! You are alive! You are a bright star, Inside our hearts. Told with a combination of powerful, spare language and sumptuous and complex imagery that is typical of Yuyi Morales's work, this is the story of a fawn making her way through a border landscape teeming with flora and fauna native to the region. A gentle but empowering voice encourages her to face her fears when she comes across an obstacle in the form of an insurmountable...
10) Lucero
Author
Language
Español
Description
¡Estás despierta, mi amor! ¡Estás viva! Eres un lucero en nuestros corazones. Contado con la combinación de lenguaje sobrio y poderoso y las metáforas suntuosas y complejas típica de la obra de Yuyi Morales, esta es la historia de una cervatilla que se abre paso a través del paisaje de la frontera, repleto de la flora y la fauna nativas de la región. Una voz dulce, pero que la estimula y le otorga fuerza, anima a la cervatilla a enfrentar...
Author
Language
English
Description
Child, you are awake! You are alive! You are a bright star, Inside our hearts. Told with a combination of powerful, spare language and sumptuous and complex imagery that is typical of Yuyi Morales's work, this is the story of a fawn making her way through a border landscape teeming with flora and fauna native to the region. A gentle but empowering voice encourages her to face her fears when she comes across an obstacle in the form of an insurmountable...
Author
Language
English
Description
¡Estás despierta, mi amor! ¡Estás viva! Eres un lucero en nuestros corazones. Contado con la combinación de lenguaje sobrio y poderoso y las metáforas suntuosas y complejas típica de la obra de Yuyi Morales, esta es la historia de una cervatilla que se abre paso a través del paisaje de la frontera, repleto de la flora y la fauna nativas de la región. Una voz dulce, pero que la estimula y le otorga fuerza, anima a la cervatilla a enfrentar...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.
15) Little Night
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the end of a long day, Mother Sky helps her playful daughter, Little Night, to get ready for bed.
16) Nochecita
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
At the end of a long day, Mother Sky helps her playful daughter, Little Night, to get ready for bed.
17) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Language
English
Description
Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name...a name that is sure to light up the sky.
18) Dreamers
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 880L
Language
English
Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.