Title Birthday in the barrio / story, Mayra L. Dole ; illustrations, Tonel = Cumpleaños en el barrio / cuento, Mayra L. Dole ; ilustraciones, Tonel.

Publication Info.	San Francisco : Children's Book Press ; [Berkeley, CA] : [Distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West], [2004]
	©2004

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Main Library - Children's Spanish Collection	SPANISH JE DOLE	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department	SP JJ DOLE	Check Shelf
New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Children's Department	J SP DOLE	Check Shelf

Description	32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary	When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces," the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.
	Viendo que el papá de Lazarita está desempleado y por eso no puede proveer una fiesta para su quinceañera de ella, sus amigos en el barrio cubano de Miami consiguen la ayuda del alcalde para planear una fiesta de sorpresa para todo el vecindario.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.9 0.5 80853.
Language	Text in Spanish and English.
Subject	Quinceañera (Social custom) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Birthdays -- Juvenile fiction.
	Parties -- Juvenile fiction.
	Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
	Cuban Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
	Miami (Fla.) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Quinceañera (Social custom) -- Fiction.
	Birthdays -- Fiction.
	Parties -- Fiction.
	Friendship -- Fiction.
	Cuban Americans -- Fiction.
	Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction.
	Spanish language materials -- Bilingual.
Added Author	Eligio, Antonio, 1958-
Added Title	Cumpleaños en el barrio
ISBN	0892391944
Standard No.	9780892391943 51695

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