Bilingual text describes a family as they sit down to a table filled with good food.

Bang. The door to your cell is shut. You have survived the arrest, you are mad that you weren't more careful, you worry that they will get others too, you wonder what will happen to your group and whether a lawyer has been called yet-of course you show none of this. The weapon, the fake papers, your own clothes, all gone. The prison garb and the shoes they've thrown at you are too big-maybe because they want to play silly games with you, maybe because...

"Marina Lucero appreciates peace and order. Unfortunately the people around her do not"--Provided by publisher.

"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"-- The Torres sisters dream of escape-- from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood and its traditions and expectations. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later her three younger sisters,...

Professor Rosa Medina, a folklorist researching the ChupaCabra, goes to Mexico to track down recent sightings of the creature which kills its victims, particularly goats, by sucking their brains out.

Once her mother's ashes are put away after her father marries Alice, Glorieta Davis Espinosa determines to persuade her greataunt to allow them to be buried in the family plot by the Day of the Dead, even as she deals with Alice's children.

Folklorist Rosa Medina investigates a purported government agency that is cloning monsters--a combination of ChupaCabras and aliens--intended to take over the world.

When his friend Jose has his adoption day party, Max brings him a special present.

A little girl discovers all the bright colors in her Hispanic American neighborhood.