A Mexican red-leg tarantula is the key to turning an ordinary summer into an extraordinary one for three eleven-year-old boys.

Have a pet tarantula? No way! Or so eleven-year old Lolo thought before he found a Mexican red-leg outside the fort he built with friends Frankie and Mario. When Lolo's abuelo shows him how to capture the tarantula, Lolo names the spider Red-Legs and decides to keep it as a pet. The three friends could never anticipate that Red-Legs would become the key for turning an ordinary summer into an extraordinary one filled with unexpected adventures and new experiences. When Red-Legs is missing, the three boys and their school friend Lisa Gomez try to figure out who might have stolen - or killed - the tarantula. Is it the two bullies, Rogelio and Joker, who have been giving the boys a hard time all summer?Set in "Las Lomitas," "the little hills" of East Los Angeles, Lolo and Red-Legs is a heartwarming middle-grade novel that offers a glimpse into the lives and culture of three close friends and their most unusual summer. Originally published in 1998, it was listed among the Best Children's Books of the Year by Bank Street College of Education's Children's Book Committee.

This is a collection of more than 500 annotated book recommendations. Organized around 44 topics considered by the panel to be 'the most frequently requested', this readers' advisory guide for children's literature (includes titles) on everything from dogs and diaries to adventure and science.

A collection of work from The Writers Workshop at www.theundeniables.org. We write. Everyday. We craft our work to become undeniable. Those qualified undeniable, via harsh critique sessions, are published. This is the cumulative result of seven sessions: the best selections of one year of writing, everyday. Ten authors, ranging from university professor to world traveler to factory worker. All searching for the capital A (Art) of literature.

This publication is the volume 3 of a series dealing with the culture and traditions of the Ibaloy of Upper Doacan (Itogon, Benguet, Philippines). It is available in Nabaloy and in English. Elders share their stories to a group of youngsters who ask them questions on a variety of topics such as animals, signs, death rituals and spirits. The book provides the verbatim accounts of these discussions recorded during a workshop that took place at the Senior-Citizen hall in 2018.