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Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition)

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by Lori Marie Carlson (Editor)
Oscar Hijuelos (Introduction)

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  • Age Range: 8 – 12 years

  • Grade Level: 4 – 7

  • Paperback: 160 pages

  • Publisher: Bilingual edition edition (March 19, 2013)

  • Language: Spanish/English

  • ISBN-10: 1250016789

  • ISBN-13: 978-1250016782

  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 11.4 x 209.3 inches

  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces


    BCCB Blue Ribbon Award, American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, School Library Best Books of the Year, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults, Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List, Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Commended, American Library Association Quick Picks for Young Adults, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Award, NCSS-CBC NotableTrade-Soc.Stdy, American Library Association Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults, NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies

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Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition)

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory―and pain―of being Latino American.

Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such as Sandra Cisneros, Martín Espada, Gary Soto, and Ed Vega, and a very personal introduction by Oscar Hijuelos, this collection encompasses the voices of Latino America. By selecting poems about the experiences of teenagers, Carlson has given a focus to that rich diversity; by presenting the poems both in their original language and in translation, she has made them available to us all.

As you move from memories of red wagons to dreams of orange trees to fights with street gangs, you feel Cool Salsa‘s musical and emotional cross rhythms. Here is a world of exciting poetry for you, y tú también.


 

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