Books like Juanita by Leo Politi

Blueberries for Sal is a charming picture book by Robert McCloskey that follows a young girl and her mother as they gather blueberries in Maine, blending humor, family bonding, and playful illustrations.

When a clever dog named Harry discovers a sweater decorated with roses, he learns a graceful way to get rid of it—showcasing patience, responsibility, and the simple joys of a well‑chosen costume.

A joyful board book where the birthday child's animal friends gather ingredients and help bake a cake, celebrating communal friendship and the special day.

A coming‑of‑age story set in East Los Angeles, where Arturo and his family and friends navigate barrio life, from reclaiming their names to playing basketball, supporting a school librarian, and even forming their own gang.

On the brink of ten, young Josefina faces a life‑threatening snakebite that tests her dreams of becoming a curandera like her aunt Tía Magdalena.

A biography of the seventeenth-century Mexican poet, learned in many subjects, who became a nun later in life.

Seven suitcases arrive on Toby's birthday, and the animals in the Monroe household fear they will be replaced.

Three orphaned girls and a governess set out on a wild hunt in London.

"Since Alma Guillermoprieto became The New Yorker's Latin American correspondent a decade ago, she has emerged as the most informed and admired writer on her part of the world. In these superb pieces of reportage and analysis she anatomizes a region we are intimately linked with yet sadly ignorant of. She writes in depth about three countries that are in deep difficulty." "Cuba, to which she returned after many years - a place in an exhausting holding pattern, waiting for Castro's departure yet anxious about what may replace him. Colombia, in which she has spent several years and which is fatally splintered among the government, the left-wing guerrillas who control large sections of the country, thanks in part to money from the drug trade, and the right-wing paramilitaries. Mexico, where she lives, which has been beset by the uprising in Chiapas (where she encounters the legendary masked leader, Marcos) and by the corruption of the government, yet is emerging for the first time into some kind of real democracy." "Finally, she gives us the stories of Eva Peron - and so of Argentina; Che Guevara - and so of the aborted Marxist revolution in Latin America; and Mario Vargas Llosa, the great Peruvian novelist who in 1990 lost the battle of the presidency to Alberto Fujimori." "Looking for History is personal reportage that is infused with the author's unique understanding of a world that she is a part of, but that she can also stand apart from and sympathetically observe."--Jacket.

Little Pedro, who sings like an angel, is allowed to lead the Christmas procession, known as La Posada, through the old Mexican section of downtown Los Angeles.

Chato decides to throw a "pachanga" for his friend Novio Boy, who has never had a birthday party, but when it is time to party, Novio Boy cannot be found.