Review by Wendy Bermudez Reviewed Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Mickey Rangel, boy detective, has a case to solve when a new student joins his fifth grade class. Natalia is quiet, sits alone in the cafeteria, and wears old shoes and tattered clothes. Students quickly start fabricating stories, some more outlandish than others, to […]
Rooster Joe and the Bully / El Gallo Joe y el Abusón
Review by Lyn Miller Lachman Review Source: Pirate Tree Book Author: Joe López, a seventh grader who loves to draw, is tired of seeing eighth grade bully Martín Corona push smaller kids around and steal their lunch money. When he disrupts the shakedown of Luis, one of the smaller sixth graders, Martín demands that Joe give […]