Your Passport to Mexico (World Passport)

by Isela Xitlali Gómez (Author)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: World Passport
What is it like to live in or visit Mexico? What makes Mexico's culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Mexican people.
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Gr 3-5--As with past titles in the series, readers can explore various countries around the world all from their armchair. Every title has about six chapters of varying lengths written to let children feel as though they are actually visiting each country. As in preceding titles, each book describes the daily life, history, religion, and landscape using multiple paragraphs paired with photographs. Maps inform readers about the country's location and infographic side panels highlight necessary information. Endangered animal species are shared along with recipes, such as preparing nopales or prickly pear cacti in Mexico (Your Passport to Mexico), in addition to holidays and celebrations in each country. Although the overall design is the same for every country it does not distract from the amount of information given. The final pages include a glossary and further reading that can be found online or in a book. VERDICT Still a good introduction for mid-elementary readers interested in exploring the world.

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Isela Xitlali Gómez
Isela Xitlali Gómez R. is an East LA/Inland Empire transplant who writes to piece together broken stories of family, trauma, healing, and travel a la Southern California. Her art lays its roots in the spaces between jazz and mariachi, taco trucks and chili cheese burgers, oceans and desert and now snow. Isela is a 2015 Winner of the Loft Literary Center's Mentor Series in Creative Nonfiction, a 2017 Beyond the Pure Fellow through Intermedia Arts, and a 2020 fellow of the the Loft Literary Center's Mirrors and Windows program. Her essay, "It Happened in Fragments," can be found in "How Dare We! Write," an anthology of writers of color on the writing life and process. Anaïs Deal-Marquez is a multidisciplinary artist raised in México and the upper midwest. She just finished the manuscript of her first poetry collection, which looks at memory, displacement, home, healing and migration. She has been published in POETRY Magazine, The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT, from Haymarket Books and elsewhere.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781663959287
Lexile Measure
680
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication date
January 01, 2022
Series
World Passport
BISAC categories
JNF051180 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Earth Sciences - Geography
JNF038070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Mexico
JNF052020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science | Customs, Traditions, Anthropology
Library of Congress categories
Mexico

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