01508cam a2200361 i 4500 623890530 TxAuBib 20070122120000.0 910429s1993||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 91019229 9780399221460 $14.95 ($19.50 Can.) 0399221468 $14.95 ($19.50 Can.) DLC eng rda DLC DLC TxAuBib rda Soto, Gary. Too many tamales / Gary Soto ; illustrated by Ed Martinez. New York : Putnam, 1993. 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 1. While helping cook Christmas tamales, a young girl tries on her mother's diamond ring and later realizes the ring is missing. It must be in the tamales--and the only way to find out is to eat all of them! Warmly lit oil paintings bring out the nuances of this tender, funny story. 580L Lexile. Decoding demand: 77 (high) Semantic demand: 76 (high) Syntactic demand: 90 (very high) Structure demand: 84 (very high) Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.4 0.5 8680. 20070122. Christmas Fiction. Mexican Americans Fiction. Rings Fiction. Fiction. Martinez, Ed, illustrator. TXKPL