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Tía Lola Stories
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(New York: Knopf Book for Young Readers, 2010)
Tía Lola is on her way back!
Talk about coming to visit and then staying on! Tía Lola is coming back! How Tía Lola Learned to Teach will be out in October 2010.
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This time Tía Lola works her magic in school. Imagine what happens when a fun-loving, storytelling, magical Tía Lola is asked to be the Spanish teacher at Bridgeport Elementary where Miguel and Juanita go to school. Tía Lola is reluctant at first because she, herself, never went past fourth grade in her native country, the Dominican Republic. But she can turn a boring hour into an adventure the kids will never forget. School was never this much fun! Miguel and Juanita end up sharing their very special aunt with the whole school. By the end of the book, everyone in town and all the students a Bridgeport Elementary consider Tía Lola their very own aunt.
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Coming October 2010
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Come back in a month or so for more news about what Tía Lola and I will be doing to introduce this new book. You can bet it's going to be fun with Tía Lola involved!
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(New York: Knopf Book for Young Readers, 2001)
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My ten-year old nephew kept asking when he was going to get to read one of my books. The pressure was on. As I sat down to write a book he could read now, I knew I wanted to address the whole issue of what it means to be Latino to children of immigrants, children born and raised in this country. I also wanted to bring my memories of my wonderful aunts, tías, to the snowy landscape of the blank page. So, when ten-year-old Miguel moves to Vermont with his mami after his parents divorce, guess who flies up from the Island to help take care of him and his little sister, Juanita? Tía Lola! A kind of Mary Poppins with a Spanish accent.
see also: Random House: Behind the Book
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see this book on Amazon.com:
hardcover *
paperback
en español: hardcover *
paperback
or you may be able to get an
autographed copy at
Vermont Book Shop
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Talk about wonderful & plentiful Tía Lola materials!
There are class plans, writing ideas, music class ideas and more are available at Lenoir-Rhyne University's thelittleread.net. As part of the little read, I will give a public presentation on the campus at noon on Saturday, April 17, 2010.
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