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Carlitos lives in a happy home with his mother, his abuela, and Coco the cat. Life in his hometown is cozy as can be, but the call of the capital city pulls Carlitos across the bay in search of his father.
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Bellevue - Kids World Language
E Newman
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E Newman
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E Newman
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E Newman
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E Newman
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E Newman
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Bellevue - Kids World Language
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E Newman
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"La autora de bestsellers Lesléa Newman ofrece un tierno y oportuno cuento de una niña puertorriqueña que enfrenta un huracán y su preocupación por los amados coquíes de su isla natal. Después de acurrucarse en la cama cada noche, Alicia escucha las formidables voces de los diminutos coquíes que viven en todo Puerto Rico y le cantan para que se duerma. Co-quí, co-quí cantan las ranitas. Co-quí, coquí. Un día un terrible huracán...
3) Beauty woke
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Ramos
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E Ramos
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E Ramos
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E Ramos
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Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Ramos
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E Ramos
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Ramos
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E Ramos
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Donelson - Kids Easy
E Ramos
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E Ramos
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Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Ramos
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E Ramos
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Beauty--who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage--was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
4) Clemente!
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Bellevue - Kids Biography
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Biography
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Madison - Kids Biography
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1st ed.
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Bellevue - Kids Biography
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jB C6264p
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Madison - Kids Biography
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A little boy named Clemente is proud to learn about the life, career, and charitable work of his namesake, baseball great Roberto Clemente, the first Latin American player inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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Hadley Park - Kids Easy
E Perez
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E Perez
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E Perez
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E Perez
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Old Hickory - Kids Easy
E Perez
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E Perez
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Hadley Park - Kids Easy
E Perez
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E Perez
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E Perez
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E Perez
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Old Hickory - Kids Easy
E Perez
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E Perez
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"When Miguel and his parents move from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland, Miguel misses their home, his grandparents, and his pet frog, Coquí, but he soon realizes that New York City has more in common with back home than he originally thought"--
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Gonzale
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E Gonzale
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Southeast - Kids Easy
E Gonzale
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E Gonzale
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First edition.
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Gonzale
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E Gonzale
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Southeast - Kids Easy
E Gonzale
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E Gonzale
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"Co-quí, co-quí! The coquí frogs sing to Elena from her family's beloved mango tree--their calls so familiar that they might as well be singing, "You are home, you are safe." But home is suddenly not safe when a hurricane threatens to destroy everything that Elena knows."--
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While preparing for Christmas in Puerto Rico, seven-year-old Esmeralda asks the Three Magi for a baby doll like her cousin's, but when they bring something else instead she gains a deeper understanding of the meaning of the holiday.
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Southeast - Kids World Language
E Carabal
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E Carabal
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Thompson Lane - Kids Easy
E Carabal
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E Carabal
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Southeast - Kids World Language
E Carabal
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E Carabal
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Thompson Lane - Kids Easy
E Carabal
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E Carabal
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Relates, in Spanish and English, a telephone conversation in which young Estrellita, who has recently moved to Brooklyn, New York, tells her grandmother, who still lives in Puerto Rico, all about her adventures in and near Manhattan.
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Bellevue - Kids World Language
E Carabel
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E Carabel
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Main Library - Kids Easy
E Carabel
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E Carabel
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Bellevue - Kids World Language
E Carabel
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E Carabel
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E Carabel
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E Carabel
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As Estrellita leaves her beloved Caribbean island home, she combines all of its features into an ode celebrating its green and eternal beauty.
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Hermitage - Kids Biography
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jB M8438d
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Madison - Kids Biography
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jB M8438d
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Thompson Lane - Kids Biography
jB M8438d
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jB M8438d
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First edition.
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Hermitage - Kids Biography
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jB M8438d
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Madison - Kids Biography
jB M8438d
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jB M8438d
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Thompson Lane - Kids Biography
jB M8438d
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jB M8438d
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"The life of Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno, from her girlhood journey to the United States to her rise as a timeless superstar"--
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Non-Fiction
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Hermitage - Kids Non-Fiction
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1st ed.
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Non-Fiction
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j398.2 J236g
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A Taino myth of how the island Puerto Rico was created in a world that once had no water or vegetation but was only a tall mountain on a desert plain. A boy finds seeds and plants them at the top of the mountain and lush vegetation grows including an enormous pumpkin. When the pumpkin breaks the sea rushes out and fills the plain leaving the mountain top island of Puerto Rico.
12) Grandma's gift
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East - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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Main Library - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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East - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
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Hermitage - Kids Non-Fiction
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j398.2 M779j
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j398.2 M779j
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Hermitage - Kids Non-Fiction
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j398.2 M779j
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j398.2 M779j
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Although he tries to do exactly as his mother tells him, foolish Juan Bobo keeps getting things all wrong.
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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Madison - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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Madison - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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A young boy has lost Bongo, his favorite stuffed animal, and no matter where he looks for it he cannot find it. Perhaps someone stole it, he thinks, someone like his little sister.
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Bellevue - Kids Holiday
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Donelson - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Bellevue - Kids Holiday
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Donelson - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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The day before Christmas, everyone in Jose's neighborhood seems grumpy, including his mother who is homesick for Puerto Rico, but when he and his parents return from the pizzeria where they borrowed an oven to cook their roast, the heavenly aroma reminds those they pass of all they have to celebrate.
16) My dog is lost!
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Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Keats
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E Keats
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Two days after arriving in New York from Puerto Rico, eight-year-old Juanito, who speaks no English, loses his dog and searches for it all over the city making new friends along the way.
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East - Kids Easy
E Hoang
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E Hoang
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Madison - Kids Easy
E Hoang
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E Hoang
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E Hoang
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E Hoang
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East - Kids Easy
E Hoang
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E Hoang
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Madison - Kids Easy
E Hoang
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E Hoang
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E Hoang
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E Hoang
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"When Ren moves to Ava's city, he feels lost without the green and magic of his home, but not everything in the city is what meets the eye and Ren discovers that nothing makes you feel at home quite like a friend"--
18) No dogs allowed!
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Madison - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Main Library - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Old Hickory - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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1st ed.
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Madison - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Main Library - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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Old Hickory - Kids Easy
E Manzano
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E Manzano
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When Iris, her family, and the neighbors take a trip to Enchanted Lake, everyone brings what they think is needed, but the family dog turns out to present a problem.
19) Octopus stew
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Ramsey dons his superhero cape to rescue Grandma from the huge octopus she is trying to cook--or is he simply telling a story? Includes author's note on the story's origin and a recipe for Octopus stew.
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Bellevue - Kids World Language
E Gil
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E Gil
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Edmondson Pike - Kids World Language
E Gil
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E Gil
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Southeast - Kids World Language
E Gil
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E Gil
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Bellevue - Kids World Language
E Gil
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E Gil
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Edmondson Pike - Kids World Language
E Gil
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E Gil
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Southeast - Kids World Language
E Gil
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E Gil
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Mimi is disappointed when she learns that her family won't make their annual trip to Puerto Rico. She doesn't want to miss her parranda, but her friends have a plan.