"Chronicles the deeds of paisanos, their multiple loves, wonderful brawls, Rabelaisian wine drinking as they fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil in the surrounding ocean of civil rectitude"--Cover.

A memorable and deeply moving story of a family of New Mexican sheepherders, in which Miguel, neither child nor man, tells of his great longing to accompany men and sheep to summer pasture, and expresses his need to be recognized as a maturing individual.

The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted...

Publications -- Museums, churches, organizations and sites on the National Register of Historic Places -- Where to find specific Hispanic Colorado resources -- Hispanic legislators in the Colorado State Legislature -- Hispanic Experience Photograph Collection.

Mama Provi takes chicken and rice to her sick granddaughter Lucy who lives upstairs.

Presents a biographical profile of Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman astronaut, discussing the schooling and training she needed in order to fulfill her dream of being part of the space program.

When her abuelo is injured at the local landfill, second-grader Sofia is determined to transform the dangerous Mount Trashmore into a park, taking on City Hall in the process.