3rd Grade

The school building itself narrates a first day full of nerves, confusion, and growing confidence.

Based on a true story, a girl in Cuba persists in pursuing drumming despite rules that say girls should stay silent.

As a city recovers after an earthquake, one boy listens for the sounds of rebuilding and hope around him.

This bilingual biography introduces Pele through childhood determination, dazzling skill, and love of the game.

This biography imagines the childhood reading life that helped shape writer and scholar Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

A young girl in Guatemala turns discarded plastic into weaving material so she can make art like the women in her family.

A granddaughter learns that memory, craft, and story can become an inheritance as meaningful as any object.

A bilingual retelling of Little Red Riding Hood turns the familiar tale into a playful rhyme filled with Spanish vocabulary and comic timing.

Two best friends spend one last day together before a move changes the shape of their block and their routines.

A boy and his father travel from California to the border to visit the mother who has been deported to Mexico.