SOMOS LATINOS: Mis Escuela / My School
By: George Ancona
Publisher: Children’s Press/Scholastic, 2004
Age Level: 9-12
Language: English and Spanish
ISBN: 0-516-23686-5 (library binding), 0-516-25066-3 (paperback)
Christopher’s parents came from Central America. His father from El Salvador, his mother from Guatemala. He goes to the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Los Angeles. We meet his friends, teachers, and principal. For the harvest festival the entire school, both students and teachers, gets dressed up in costumes.