Family Pictures, 15th Anniversary Edition / Cuadros de Familia, Edición Quinceañera

Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture.

The English-Spanish text and vivid illustrations reflect the author's strong sense of family and community. For Mexican Americans, Carmen Lomas Garza offers a book that reflects their lives and traditions. For others, this work offers insights into a beautifully rich community.

• In My Family/En mi familia
• My Diary From Here to There/Mi diario de aqui hasta alla
• If You Come Softly
• Elementary Childrens Literature: Infancy through Age 13 (4th ed)
• My Very Own Room/Mi propio cuartito
• Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado
• Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
• Grandfather's Journey
• Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
• The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail