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A series of color-illustrated poems in English and Spanish that tell the story of a boy's move with his father from war-torn El Salvador to the Mission District of San Francisco.

A young boy, bored with his video games, decides to make a black bean soup.

The author, who remembers the fragrant dishes prepared at his family's restaurant in El Salvador, recounts a mystery from his childhood involving tortillas.

Poetic fun in the kitchen with a recipe for an all time favorite, rice pudding.

Alfredito cannot wait for his first plane ride, which will take him and his family home to El Salvador for Christmas, and his excitement and joy help him discover the true meaning of the holiday season.

A collection of bilingual poems that explore how a native boy's connection to Mother Earth heals the wounds of racism.

If this poetic tribute to the culinary delights of guacamole doesn't inspire you to try the dish, nothing will.

A little boy's mother has always warned him not to eat before going to bed and not to sleep with his hands crossed on his chest or he would have nightmares, but one night he decides not to listen and finds himself lost in a dream.

Five-year-old Luna is afraid she'll find monsters at her new school until a kind teacher and her new classmates show her that she has nothing to fear.

After settling in San Francisco, Xochitl feels homesick for El Salvador, but selling flowers eventually helps her to adjust to her adopted country.

For the narrator, cooking is like making music. In Spanish and English verse, he describes how every weekend he and his family make salsa, adding cloves of garlic trompetas and stirring with a "saxophone spoon.

Remembering her grandfather's promise to fly over from El Salvador to visit anytime she wants to see him, Natalia is determined to help the guinea hen she sees fly by her window in the city.

Poems explore the lives of children fleeing their homes in Central America, sometimes alone, to seek refuge in the United States.

"Describes--in English, Spanish, and Nahuat--the life cycle of water from the perspective of one drop"--Provided by publisher.

Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador, create a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind their apartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.