Moms, Teachers, and Sisters!

My mom is my role model because she shows me things I never knew like multiplication and division. She inspires me to try my best and never give up. She is a great role model because she makes me laugh. She makes me believe that everything is possible if you put your mind to it.

— Stephanie D.

My role model is my teacher, Mrs. Mills. I love Mrs. Mills because she is a good drawer and a good artist too. She is kind to me and helpful when she teaches us hard words and how to divide numbers. Sometimes she gets mad, but after a little while she is happy again. She gives us a reading list and when we read every single day she puts a sticker on the squares. If we fill it with stickers, we get a prize from the prize box. My other role model is Alejandra. She is nice and always tells me to never give up on my homework or my math. She even tells me that she likes my stories and my writing too. She sometimes tells me to add details to my stories to make them better. These are my favorite role models.

—Miranda A.

My role model is my teacher because she is nice. She teaches math and science. She teaches multiplication and division for math. She is the best teacher ever. I started to do math in kindergarten and my mom helped me with math at home. That was a long time ago. Math is the best subject ever. I like math the most because I’m really good at it.

— Guadalupe T.

My role model is my sister Jennifer. She is my role model because she is studious. My sister is also a good person. What I learned about my sister is that it is bad to bully people. She cares about me and takes care of me. My second role model is Alejandra because she teaches me to be respectful. She also teaches me to be a nice person. She tells me to not do bad things to people. I want to be a role model like them because they are nice and care about other people.

—Monserrat L.

About this book:  Limón y Nuez is a book about our students. Every afternoon they brighten up our Writing Lab at 826LA in Mar Vista when they get out of school. They bring us their homework but they also bring us their many talents. Here you will read about how they learned to be the best BFF’s ever and about how they learned to build with wood. They are normal kids, as student Kevin wrote, but they are also special. They are bilingual and proud, in fact, many of them have been awarded medals for their bilingualism! Ellas y ellos juegan fútbol y tocan melodías en el violín. They read big books and write poetry.

You can purchase Limón y Nuez online or at a Time Travel Mart near you!