Open Court

Grade 2

Our Country and Its People

394.2 Hoy

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Las Posadas : an Hispanic Christmas

celebration. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1999.

Follows an Hispanic American family in a small New Mexican

community as they prepare for and celebrate the nine-day

religious festival which occurs just before Christmas.

B Cle

Sabin, Louis. Roberto Clemente : young baseball hero. Mahwah,

N.J. : Troll Associates, c1992. A biography of the great

Puerto Rican-born baseball player.

Bil F Pae

Paek, Min, 1950-. Aekyung's dream. Rev. ed. San Francisco,

Calif. : Children's Book Press : Distributed to the book

trade by the Talman Co., c1988. A young Korean immigrant

learns to adjust to her new life in America by heeding the

words of an ancient Korean king.

E Cho

Choi, Yangsook. The name jar. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2001.

After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new

classmates help her decide what her name should be.

E Ger

Gershator, David. Bread is for eating. 1st ed. New York :

Holt, 1995. Mamita explains how bread is created in a song

sung in both English and Spanish.

E Lat

Lattimore, Deborah Nourse,. Frida Maria : a story of the Old

Southwest. 1st ed. San Diego : Browndeer Press, c1994.

Because she does not sew, cook, or dance like a "proper

senorita," Frida cannot please her mother until she saves

the day at the fiesta with her special talent.

E Ros

Rosa-Casanova, Sylvia. Mama Provi and the pot of rice. 1st ed.

New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997.

Mama Provi takes chicken and rice to her sick granddaughter

Lucy who lives upstairs.

F Alt

Altman, Linda Jacobs, 1943-. Amelia's road. 1st ed. New York :

Lee & Low Books, c1993. Tired of moving around so much,

Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a

stable home.

F Bak

Baker, Olaf. Where the buffaloes begin. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

: Puffin Books, [1985], c1981. After hearing the legend

retold by the tribe's oldest member, Little Wolf hopes to

someday witness the beginning of the buffaloes at the sacred

lake.

F Pom

Pomeranc, Marion Hess. The American Wei. Morton Grove, IL : A.

Whitman, 1998. When Wei Fong loses his first tooth while

going to his family's naturalization ceremony, many

soon-to-be Americans join in the search.

F Sot

Soto, Gary. Taking sides. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace

Jovanovich, c1991. Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an

aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his

divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city

to a white suburban neighborhood.