Gwendolyn Zepeda

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1) Growing up with tamales =: Los tamales de Ana

Author

Zepeda, Gwendolyn

Pub. Date

2008.

Language

English

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Six-year-old Ana looks forward to growing older and being allowed more responsibility in making the tamales for the family's Christmas celebrations.

2) Houston, we have a problema

Author

Zepeda, Gwendolyn

Pub. Date

2009.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"A plastic Virgin Mary and a fortune teller are a girl's best friends in this laugh-out-loud novel about a superstitious young woman who doubts herself when it comes to finding love and living her life"--Provided by publisher

3) Maya and Annie on Saturdays and Sundays =: Los sábados y domingos de Maya y Annie

Author

Zepeda, Gwendolyn

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

Español

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Told in two voices and languages, Vietnamese American Annie and Hispanic American Maya attend different schools but spend nearly every weekend together, until something special happens to bring them closer together.

4) Monsters, zombies + addicts: poems

Author

Zepeda, Gwendolyn

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

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"I was scared of a thing that might have happened. In daytime I m sure it / never did. At night, I don t trust daylit memories or instincts. In nightmares, like / filmstrips, the feared thing occurs." In her second poetry collection, monsters real and imagined chase Houston Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda through late nights when she can t sleep. Ghosts routinely visit in the early morning hours, but in spite of her fears, she dares to believe that...

5) Sunflowers: Girasoles / por Gwendolyn Zepeda ; ilustraciones de Alisha Ann Guadalupe Gambino ; traducción al español de Gabriela Baeza Ventura

Author

Zepeda, Gwendolyn

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

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After helping her grandfather plant squash, onions, carrots, cabbage, and other vegetables that her mother uses in soups and salsas, seven-year-old Marisol plants sunflower seeds in her neighbors' yards, and weeks later, everyone gets to enjoy the fruits of Marisol's labor.