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Border Tales for Kids and Tweens

[ESPAÑOL ABAJO] Pima County shares a border with Mexico, and we have a lot of similarities with our neighboring communities to the south. This is a list of books for children and books for tweens set in the borderlands region. *The books on this list may be available in multiple formats and languages. Most of the books are in English, but some books are bilingual, and the ones in Spanish are at the end of the list. ** El Condado Pima comparte una frontera con México. Esta es una lista de libros para niños y libros para adolescentes jóvenes que toman lugar en la región de la frontera entre los E.E.U.U. y México. *La mayoría de los libros están en inglés, pero los títulos en español están al final de la lista.

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  • This book is about a trip a little boy takes with his father to a town just on the other side of the border. "This town's a twin of the one where I live, with Spanish spoken everywhere just the same, but English mostly missing till it pops up like…
    Book, 2021New York : Kokila, 2021. — Picture Book Bowles
  • "I love my town on the river. I love my cousin's town too. Though a border separates them, they both feel like home."
    Book, 2022New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2022. — Picture Book Solis Bilingual
  • "At night, from high above, the two cities on either side of the bridge look like one big city."
    Book, 2021New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — Picture Book Raul
  • This picture book is about a little girl who wakes up every day at 4 to make the drive with her mother and sister across the border to go to school. In the author's note, Sendy Santamaria said: "Countless people get up every morning at the crack of…
    Book, 2023San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2023] — Picture Book Santamaria
  • From Google Books: "Being twins means having a best friend forever . . . But when one goes to middle school in Mexico and the other across the border in California, can that bond withstand the distance? Luis Fernando is staying local in Mexicali,…
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York : Random House Graphic, [2022] — Fiction Pimienta CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher."
    Book, 2018El Paso, Texas : Cinco Puntos Press, [2018] — 811.6 B681t 2018 CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "A thrilling follow-up to "Felice and the Wailing Woman" that explores the Texas-Mexico border myth of the Dancing Devil is brimming with magic, adventure and Mexican folklore and is perfect for fans of fantasy adventure series."
    Book, 2024New York : Kokila, [2024] — Fiction Lopez CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "Presents a picture book biography of Yo-Yo Ma, one the world's most renowned and celebrated cellists who, staying true to himself, performed at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, proving that it is possible to build bridges between…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. — 92 M1109h 2021 CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "When Maria, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, Maria must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence."
    Book, 2019[New York] : [Farrar Straus Giroux], [2019] — Picture Book Perkins
  • From Bibliocommons: "Uchenna and Elliot travel with Professor Fauna to the Texas-Mexico border to save the region's animals and help bring a divided community back together with the help of locals"--
    Book, 2019New York : Dutton Children's Books, [2019] — Fiction Gidwitz CHILD
  • Me dicen Güero

    poemas de un chavo de la frontera

    Bowles, David (David O.),
    Book, 2020New York : Vintage Español, 2020. — 811.6 B681m 2018 Espanol CHILD
  • Le dicen Fregona

    poemas de un chavo de la frontera

    Bowles, David (David O.)
    Book, 2023Miami, FL : Vintage Español, 2023. — Fiction Bowles Espanol CHILD