Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition) Jamaica May’s journey through personal and

May’s journey through personal and familial grief is poignant and questions of power and privilege are explored with nuance that will spark conversation among teen readers

and spread knowledge

But Jez soon finds out that her family’s true power goes far beyond small charms and elixirs…and not a moment too soon

Nasir feels betrayed

lyrical ode to summers spent outdoors will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever counted down the days until school gets out

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition) Jamaica May’s journey through personal andGrowing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag toothed traps of English. Here is the gloryand painof being Latino American. Latino Americans hail from Cuba and