Books for Children and Young Adults in Spanish 2021

Janet Pascal ¿Qué fue la Gran Depresión? What Was the Great Depression? ILLUSTRATIONS Dede Putra GR U Politics and Government / Great Depression / Business and Economics 9781631134142 5½" x 7½" / 124 pp $11.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / History On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worse. The stock market plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses—or both— and ended up in shantytowns. The Great Depression remains one of the hardest and most widespread tragedies in American history. Judith St. George ¿Qué fue la expedición de Lewis y Clark? What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition? ILLUSTRATIONS Tim Foley GR Q Exploration and Discovery / American West / Native Americans 9781631134159 5½" x 7½" / 124 pp $11.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / History When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the “Corps of Discovery” left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of the U.S. Young readers will love this true-life adventure tale of the two-year journey that finally brought the explorers to the Pacific Ocean. Yona Zeldis McDonough ¿Qué fue el Tren Clandestino? What Was the Underground Railroad? ILLUSTRATIONS Lauren Mortimer GR R American Civil War / Prejudice and Racism / Politics and Government 9781631134173 5½" x 7½" / 124 pp $11.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / History No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from—there were no trains or tracks, only “conductors” who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about “passengers” on the Railroad, this book chronicles slaves’ close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With eighty illustrations and a sixteen-page photo insert, the Underground Railroad comes alive! Jim O’Connor ¿Qué fue Pompeya? What Was Pompeii? ILLUSTRATIONS John Hinderliter GR S Natural Disasters / Ancient Civilizations / Earthquakes and Volcanoes 9781631134081 5½" x 7½"/ 124 pp $11.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / History The morning of August 24, 79 A.D. seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. More than seventeen hundred years later, in 1748, explorers rediscovered the port city with intact buildings and beautiful mosaics. This easy-to-read account is gripping and includes photos of the ruins. 130 MIDDLE GRADE READERS WWW. LOQUELEO.COM/US 3-5 Middle Grade Readers