Mango Abuela and Me

Name: Mango Abuela and Me
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Meg Medina
ISBN: 9781430136798

Author: Meg Medina

Narrator: Brian Amador, Rosi Amador, Alisa Amador

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Live Oak Media

Published: 01/01/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Mia is not sure what to think when her Abuela comes to live with her family in the city. They share a bedroom but speak different languages and Abuela is sad about leaving her sunny house with wild parrots in mango trees. How Mia and Abuela develop their relationship while learning to communicate makes for a richly-told, uplifting story that lovingly blends generations and cultures.

About Meg Medina

Meg Medina is the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. She was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and grew up in Queens, New York. An author of Cuban descent, Meg writes stories that celebrate Latino culture, as in The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, Mango, Abuela, and Me, Burn Baby Burn, and Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away. Her teen novel Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass won the Pura Belpré Award and was published as a graphic novel in 2023. Her middle grade novel Merci Suárez Changes Gears won the Newbery Medal—and led to two additional Merci Suárez novels: Merci Suárez Can’t Dance and Merci Suárez Plays It Cool. Her nonfiction titles include She Persisted: Sonia Sotomayor and She Persisted: Pura Belpré.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jillian on October 05, 2015

There was so much to love about this book - I loved the "how-tos" of learning a language (labeling EVERYTHING). I loved the use of teaching the parrot as a way to bring Mia and Abuela closer. I LOVED that it wasn't just "teach my foreign grandmother English," but it was also Mia learning Spanish, an......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on August 03, 2016

An important book about language, communication, family and love.......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on January 12, 2020

When Mia's Abuela, or grandmother, comes to stay with her family in the city, the young girl doesn't have enough Spanish, and her grandmother doesn't have enough English, for the two to communicate with one another. Mia tries a number of things - pointing and naming objects, taping English labels on......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 19, 2021

Very sweet and tender look at an abuela (grandmother) who speaks only Spanish and is from a tropical locale, who must move in with her children living in a colder climate and learn English in order to communicate with her new roomate - her young granddaughter. Abuela and Mia each learn a new languag......more

Goodreads review by Agustina on February 17, 2023

A bit of context: my youngest sister was born in the USA to Argentine parents. My father, maybe because he feels it's easier, or maybe because he might fear it could make it harder for her to become as much a native English speaker if she also learns Spanish (deeply untrue), speaks to her in English......more