Books for Children and Young Adults in Spanish 2021

April Jones Prince ¿Quién fue Mark Twain? Who Was Mark Twain? ILLUSTRATIONS John O’Brien GR P Literature and Writing / Action and Adventure / Humor 9781631138546 5½" x 7½" / 112 pp $10.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / Biography / Language Arts / History A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Twain had a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. He also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice. His fascinating life is captured candidly in this enjoyable biography. Tui T. Sutherland ¿Quién fue Harry Houdini? Who Was Harry Houdini? ILLUSTRATIONS John O’Brien GR P Achieving Goals / Performing Arts / Creativity 9781631138522 5½" x 7½" / 112 pp $10.99/ PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / Biography / History Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini’s life that kids will really want to know about and illustrated throughout with beautiful black-and-white line drawings. Megan Stine ¿Quién fue Marie Curie? Who Was Marie Curie? ILLUSTRATIONS Ted Hammond GR R Scientists / Radioactivity / History of Science 9781631134241 5½" x 7½"/ 112 pp $10.99 / PB Informational Text Literary Nonfiction / Biography / History / Science Born in Poland in 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. They discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. Marie won another Nobel in 1911. She died in 1934, a victim of years of exposure to radiation. 138 MIDDLE GRADE READERS WWW. LOQUELEO.COM/US 3-5 Middle Grade Readers