Audiobooks Narrated by Lori Felipe-Barkin

Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border

From award-winning author Mitali Perkins and comes Between Us and Abuela, a timely debut audiobook about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States. It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years. But when Juan's gift is too big to fit through the slats in the fence, Maria has a brilliant idea. Here is a heartwarming tale of families and the miracle of love.

Mitali Perkins (Author), Lori Felipe-Barkin (Narrator)

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Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems/Los Ángeles Andan en Bicileta y otros poemas de otoño

In this bilingual poetry audiobook, Francisco X. Alarcón invites young listeners to experience fall in Los Angeles — the City of the Angels — where dreams can come true. In the poet's whimsical imagination, mariachis play like angels, angels ride bikes, and the earth dances the cha-cha-cha. Alarcón celebrates the simple joys and trials of everyday life: a visit to the outdoor market, the arrival of the ice cream vendor, the first day of school. He honors his family and pays tribute to his mother, who taught him that with hard work and education he could realize his dreams.

Francisco X. Alarcon (Author), Lori Felipe-Barkin (Narrator)

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Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems/Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de invierno

In the final installment in the series, Francisco X. Alarcón shows children a city where people are bridges to each other and children sing poetry in two languages. A family frolic in the snow reminds the poet of the iguanas playing by his grandmother's house in Mexico. Listeners are dazzled by the promise of the seedling redwoods — like all children — destined to be the ancestors of tomorrow.

Francisco X. Alarcon (Author), Lori Felipe-Barkin (Narrator)

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In My Family/En mi familia

Following the best-selling Family Pictures, In My Family/En mi familia is Carmen Lomas Garza's continuing tribute to the family and community that shaped her childhood and her life. Lomas Garza's warm personal stories depict memories of growing up in the traditional Mexican-American community of her hometown of Kingsville, Texas.

Carmen Lomas Garza (Author), Lori Felipe-Barkin (Narrator)

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Drum, Chavi, Drum!/¡Toca, Chavi, Toca!

This English-Spanish tale is the inspiring story about a spirited young girl who was born to play the drums. Mayra L. Dole's plucky little musician will drum her way into the hearts of all young readers, who will add her to their list of favorite heroines.

Mayra Lazara Dole (Author), Lori Felipe-Barkin (Narrator)

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My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo

Bilingual English/Spanish. An instant favorite, this beautiful bilingual audiobook follows Maya as she discovers all the colors in her world. Maya longs to find brilliant, beautiful color in her world. But when the wind blows, desert sand covers everything, and turns her whole neighborhood the color of dust. With the help of a feathered friend, Maya searches high and low to find the colors in her world. And she does-in the vibrant purple of her Mama's flowers, the juicy green of a prickly cactus, the hot pink clouds at sunset, and the shiny black of her Papi's hair. As they follow Maya's search for all the colors of the rainbow, little readers will be inspired to look around and ask themselves, where can I find the colors in my world? Written in English and Spanish, this beautiful bilingual audiobook will be an instant favorite for beginning listeners.

Maya Christina Gonzalez (Author), Lori Felipe-Barkin (Narrator)

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Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove

This bilingual audiobook shares the empowering true story of the 1931 Lemon Grove Incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first school desegregation case in United States history. Starred review, Booklist Starred review, School Library Journal Starred review, Publishers Weekly Best Books for Children 2019, New York Public Library Best of the Best Books 2019, Chicago Public Library 2020 Orbis Pictus Recommended Title, National Council of Teachers of English Ten-year-old Roberto Álvarez loved school. He, his siblings, and neighbors attended the Lemon Grove School along with the white children from nearby homes. The children studied and played together as equals. In the summer of 1930, the Lemon Grove School Board decided to segregate the Mexican American students. The board claimed the children had a 'language handicap' and needed to be 'Americanized.' When the Mexican families learned of this plan, they refused to let their children enter the new, inferior school that had been erected. They formed a neighborhood committee and sought legal help. Roberto, a bright boy who spoke English well, became the plaintiff in a suit filed by the Mexican families. On March 12, 1931, the case of Roberto Álvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District was decided. The judge ruled in favor of the children's right to equal education, ordering that Roberto and all the other Mexican American students be immediately reinstated in the Lemon Grove School. This nonfiction bilingual audiobook, written in both English and Spanish, tells the empowering story of The Lemon Grove Incident--a major victory in the battle against school segregation, and a testament to the tenacity of an immigrant community and its fight for equal rights.

Christy Hale (Author), Lori Felipe-Barkin (Narrator)

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Starting Over in Sunset Park

Brooklyn is a strange, intimidating place for a girl who speaks no English when she steps off her very first plane after a flight from the Dominican Republic. Jessica and her mom, Camila, must live in their cousins’ crowded apartment until Camila finds work making holiday decorations and they can afford their own place. Isolated on the playground and baffled in class, unable to understand her teacher’s instructions, Jessica is intensely homesick. But little by little, things get better. She begins to learn English, and she loves the cats she and her mom care for to earn extra money. Left behind by traveling owners, the cats make the best of their situation, inspiring Jessica to do the same.

Jose Pelaez, Lynn Mcgee (Author), Lori Felipe-Barkin (Narrator)

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