Cultivating Readers HHM

It was Danilito's first day in America. His family has just made a long, exhausting move from the Caribbean to New York City. The ocean and the pal...

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

On a first solo visit with her grandmother outside Mexico City, a young girl discovers what makes Grandma so special in this enchanting and persona...

When young Rosita moved from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States, she didn’t know what to expect—but she knew she loved to sing and dance. W...

José was a boy with a song in his heart and a dance in his step. Born in Mexico in 1908, he came into the world kicking like a steer, and grew up t...

This is the story of a treasure thought to be lost in a batch of tamales; of a desperate and funny attempt by Maria and her cousins to eat their wa...

Feeling different, especially as a kid, can be tough. But in the same way that different types of plants and flowers make a garden more beautiful a...