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Under the Mambo Moon by Judy Durango


Marisol celebrates the different people who come to sing, dance, and make music at her father's music store, including Samuel who plays samba music, Mr. and Mrs. Mayer who dance the tango, and Professor Soto who plays the zampona.

67 comments:

  1. i thought this poetry book had a lot of latino culture in it & that made it interesting.and i think marisol is a nice girl**

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  2. I thought this book was okay. i liked the poetry and I thought Marisol was kind and sweet**

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  3. **** I liked it because it was about music

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  4. I think this is a good book because its cool how it tells you about olden times****

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  5. I liked it because it told a little story about everyone.***

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  6. i did not like the book because it had different words that i did not understand *

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  7. I loved this book because it was so happy on how it described everybody's night dancing.****

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  8. I liked how it was spanish to **

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  9. 'm the biggest fan of poetry! I love Poetry so much i even write poetry. I plan to write my own poetry book one day! :) ****

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  10. i didn't like the poetry or the music realy but i loved all the colture and pictures.

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  11. i didn't really like it, but when she deckribed the music it made me understand it better.**

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  12. this book is a really good poetry book with the music and all; i was so engrossed in the book that i forgot the main idea of it.But in the end it all came back to me.***

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  13. good book about music****

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  14. i like this book about the dancing singin an all
    the fun****

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  15. this is a nice book about a girl at a quinceanera and she is doing a lot of stuff at the quinceanera

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  16. this is a good book because of the poetry.Id give this book *** stars

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  17. I loved this book i thought it was very clever how they escplained the type of music used in the book i give it *****

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  18. I love about the latin music and it reminds me about my latin roots ****

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  19. i like the way it has all the dancing and singing this is a fun filled book***

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  20. I thought this book was ok. but iliked how it told little storys about every onei give this book **.

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  21. I like how it said spanish words in the book***

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  22. this is a really good book and its poetry its basically about people dancing to different types of latin american and african american music ****

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  23. i like how they tell poetry storys about a lot of people ****

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  24. I love how this book has poetry and it has a lot of different people

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  25. I enjoy how they teach you about different kinds of music.***

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  26. Carson E / HemingwayOctober 1, 2012 at 12:12 PM

    I LOVED this book. It was so cool how it told you how it brought back memories to the people who came into the music store. I give this book ****

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  27. I liked how the teaches you about music.***

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  28. I loved this book it was cool because it has poetry in it****

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  29. I like how they talk about differnt people and tells you about there lives.***

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  30. I like how this book has different poems in it that maid a book. I give this book ***

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  31. I love the poems in this book it is a fav it brought me bact to the older days.***

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  32. i like this book beacause you can read this in bed and not take forever and i realy like this book beacause i love poems and i cant wait until this wrighter comes out with another book like this.

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  33. i liked how it was all poems instead of words****

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  34. i liked this book because it mostly gave happyness.

    Alia/Norris

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  35. I really didnt like this book but i love how the auther placed the words in a different position than any other book. alexus norris
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  36. This book was okay. I liked some of the poems about dancing. I especially liked the poem about the Tango because I learned the Tango on the 4th grade. **

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  37. this book was ok.some of the poems hade some good pictures.they where very created!igive it *** stars.

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  38. I thought this book was cute. I loved how it gave background info on each person and how they all relate their life to music or dancing, my two favorite things! I give it **** stars.

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  39. my favorite poem is catalina

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  40. I loved this book because it tells about a person character based on the music they listen to.My favoirte poem was Jose baecause he takes one look at a girl and comes up with a amazing song.*****

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  41. It was a good book most part of the story it needs more action. ** stars

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  42. I really loved this boook because it compared to stuff i knew also they did have good vocabulary words.

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  43. I loved this book because they compared to some stuff i knew already also they had good vocabulary.

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  44. this book has such a colorful dance moves in this book i whuld read it again***

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  45. I absolutly loved this poem book and i thought how a bunch of poems put together telling a long story was cool. i liked the poem that talked about the music studio.

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  46. i realy liked this book beacuse i liked the way they describe every character and i lke the colture,vocabulary *****

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  47. I will give this book***. I liked all the poetry
    in this book.

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  48. ***I like this book cause its singing and dancing and bascily an mexico book and i was excited to read this.

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  49. mambo moon is a poetry book my favorite part is samuel school I rate ***

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  50. I like this book becouse it talks about a differint colcher I give it **

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  51. the book with party and fun it was right for me the lfe these people had was fun

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  52. i loved this book ,there were realy cool poems that I like .And I loved the pictures,(ESPECAILY THE DRESSES).

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  53. i like how the book has englise and spnish in it and teaches you different dances that i nnever even herd of

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  54. heart fly home when the music is just right under the mambo moon

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  55. I gave this book 4 stars because I enjoyed the happiness in this book. I like the way the family showed thier feelings by singing, dancing and having fun together.

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  56. this book is all about danceing and a song that was made a long time ago about a girl walking on a beach

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  57. This book tells you about different people, which was interesting. It also has some Spanish, I did not like that because it was hard to pronounce. **

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  58. I liked the book because the poems were all about music and it got me into the groove.

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  59. The book is good I give it ***** stars!The grandma should take a break because all she does is clean stop and talk.She should get a prowl of a roar from Pine Forest! Even that the book is fiction.

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  60. I like this book I think it was cool that evry chapter was a derfent dance ****

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  61. my favorite person was Liliana. i give it ***

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  62. i love the illistrations and the story.****

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  63. i like this book because of all the beautiful colors, singing, and pictures and i love most fiction books.=) i give it **** stars=)=)=)=)

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  64. Some of the poems were ok but it is not a type of book I like about dance and music. *

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  65. I thought it was a great book i loved all of the pictures in it!!! I also got to learn a couple new spanish words! ****

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  66. i liked it because it was almost all about music ***

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  67. if i was you i would not get it but i read t awany way but was ok book

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