{"id":1517,"date":"2011-09-16T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2011-09-16T15:03:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:03:54","slug":"books-highlight-floridas-hispanic-roots-for-hispanic-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/16\/books-highlight-floridas-hispanic-roots-for-hispanic-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The Books Children Should Read on Florida&#8217;s Hispanic Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"www.fldoe.org\">Florida Department of Education<\/a> kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month by announcing the 2011 Hispanic Heritage Month Recommended Reading List.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Pensacola to Key West, Florida is home to strong Hispanic roots that have helped to shape our state in many positive and unique ways,\u201d said Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson. He said the book list is meant to help students gain more understanding of Florida\u2019s deep cultural connections.<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic reading list by grade level:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elementary Pre K-2<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Nacho and Lolita<\/em> by Pam Munoz Ryan<br \/>\n<em>Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale<\/em> by Carmen Agra Deedy<\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->Elementary 3-5<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez<\/em> by Kathleen Krull<br \/>\n<em>The Day It Snowed Tortillas: A Classic from the American Southwest<\/em> by Joe Hayes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Middle School 6-8<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tropical secrets : Holocaust refugees in Cuba<\/em> by Margarita Engle<br \/>\n<em>Struggling to Become an American<\/em> by Robin Santos Doak<\/p>\n<p><strong>High School 9-12<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Bless Me, Ultima<\/em> by Rudolfo Anaya<br \/>\n<em>Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish <\/em>by\u00a0Juan Felipe Herrera<\/p>\n<p>The full recommended reading list: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justreadfamilies.org\/reading\/hhm.asp\">http:\/\/www.justreadfamilies.org\/reading\/hhm.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Education kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month by announcing the 2011 Hispanic Heritage Month Recommended Reading List. \u201cFrom Pensacola to Key West, Florida is home to strong Hispanic roots that have helped to shape our state in many positive and unique ways,\u201d said Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson. He said the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[132,130,1049,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}