Group of friends with tomatoes
By: Kathleen Contreras
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Young Lupe loves helping her mother with their salsa garden full of tomatoes, chile peppers, onions, garlic and cilantro. But one summer day, she sees that the biggest, juiciest tomatoes have disappeared!

Illustration of a boy and his grandfather choosing fruit at a market
By: Kathleen Contreras
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Kathleen Contreras follows up her debut picture book Braids/Trencitas with a loving portrait of a young boy and his grandfather, who share memories and their love of paletas, the delicious popsicles that originated in Michoacan, Mexico.

Young boy near ship in Cuba

These books for young readers tell the stories of Jewish children and families who fled their homeland due to religious persecution. Many are based on true stories or childhood experiences of the authors.

Refugee
By: Alan Gratz

Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .

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