L.A. Live

Date: August 29-30, 2009
Event: Los Angeles Latino Book & Family Festival.
Venue: LA Live
Location: Los Angeles, CA

The Festival exhibit area will occupy the Nokia Plaza and Chick Hearn Court (the street that runs between the Plaza and Staples Center). A floor plan will be available shortly. This dramatic new Festival venue demands a brand new start for the Los Angeles Festival. Look for more celebrities, more authors and Read more

Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the country. Although the start end dates can vary slightly depending on the organization and source, Red Ribbon Week generally takes place the last full week in October, with the weekends before and following the last full week included as appropriate celebration dates.

Red Ribbon Week serves as a vehicle for communities and individuals to take a stand for the hopes and dreams of our children through a commitment to drug prevention and education and a personal commitment to live drug free lives with the ultimate goal being the creation of drug free America.
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Latino Book Festival

The Latino Book Festival
Schedule of Events

Houston – 6th Annual
December 13-14, 2008
George R. Brown
Convention Center

Chicago • 10th Annual
March 28-29, 2009
Unity School
Cicero, IL Read more

Our Lady of Lourdes School

On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, I presented my book, Mr. Worm to the entire student body at Our Lady of Lourdes School at a School Assembly. The school is located in the East Los Angeles area. Our Lady of Lourdes School is a small parish school that services grades kindergarten through eighth grade. The Principal, Annette Olivas, runs the school.

I must say that the attentiveness and good behavior of the students was impressive, and it was a joy to see how the older students supported the younger ones. There was a sense of family and a positive Read more

Holloween Math Lesson

Halloween Math
Grade Level 1 – 2

Materials:
Halloween Candy Corn
Card stock squares to use as number cards
Paper and pencils

Objectives:
1. Students will learn lesser than and greater than numbers.
2. Students will write inequalities in numerical form.
3. Students will order numbers from highest to lowest
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