Family members head into the kitchen to help Abuelita bake a tres leches cake for Papi's birthday.

A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Newly-arrived in the United States from Mexico, Carmen is apprehensive about going to school and learning English.

"Nikko's mother wants him to stop jumping on his bed, but he's not jumping on his bed, as he tried to convince her. Instead there are luchadors, masked wrestlers, trying to fight him one at a time. In the end, of course, Nikko is the winner: the great and mightly Nikko!"--

Las fiestas están llenas de tías con sus ropas coloridas y sus risas escandalosas. ¡Eso es demasiado para Martina! Por suerte, con tanto ruido, nadie nota cuando se da una escapada. Martina se traslada a un lugar mágico -una isla cálida que le resulta familiar- en donde puede jugar en paz y tranquilidad. Martina está, por fin, en casa -pero ¿es realmente su hogar?

Cuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia, y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma.

When José is selected for the school soccer team, his dog Feliz eagerly helps him practice.

Like all kids, Josefina loves to eat sweets. She loves warm chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven, cupcakes and candy! One night, while eating a piece of flan, Mami asks her to consider giving up sweets for Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter. "That's impossible!" Josefina says. When Mami promises to teach her how to make her favorite dessert, habichuelas con dulce, she agrees to give it a try. Josefina can't wait to end her fast and eat...

"When a boy's abuela accuses him of being careless with his beloved Bongo, he devises a trap and catches the toy thief red-handed"--