Growing Up With Tamales
by Gwendolyn Zepeda |
Marisol
by Gary Soto | 
The Sneetches and Other Stories
by Dr. Seuss | 
The Story about Ping
by Marjorie Flack |
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
by Dr. Seuss | 
Miss Suzy
by Miriam Young |
Stone Soup
by Ann McGovern | 
The Butter Battle Book
by Dr. Seuss |
Andrew Henry's Meadow
by Doris Burn |
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
by Oliver Jeffers |
Same, Same But Different
by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw |
Now One Foot, Now the Other
by Tomie dePaola |
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
by Leo Buscaglia |
Cry, Heart, But Never Break
by Glenn Ringtved | 
Stone Soup
by Jon J. Muth |
My Name is Yoon
by Helen Recorvits | 
I Love You Daddy
by Jillian Harker | 
Doctor De Soto
by William Steig |
Scuffy the Tugboat
by Gertrude Crampton | 
The Little Red Caboose
by Marian Potter |
Christmas Eve started out so perfectly for Maria. Snow had fallen and the streets glittered. Maria's favorite cousins were coming over and she got to help make the tamales for Christmas dinner. It was almost too good to be true when her mother left the kitchen for a moment and Maria got to try on her beautiful diamond ring . . .