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1) Dreamers
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Titles for Children
Immigrant Heritage Month - Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Immigrant Heritage Month - Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
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English
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"From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why 12-year-old Orly doesn't want to visit. Though he's still grieving...
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3rd Grade Rocks
Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Food
Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Food
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Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.
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English
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Back to School - Tween
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
8) Tumble
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
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Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
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Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Titles for Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
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Chato decides to throw a "pachanga" for his friend Novio Boy, who has never had a birthday party, but when it is time to party, Novio Boy cannot be found.
10) Esperanza rising
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Women's History - Tweens
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Women's History - Tweens
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
11) Bouncing back
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English
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Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
12) On the hook
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"Hector has always worked hard and minded his own business. He wants to be captain of his school's chess team, go to college, and help his family make [its] way to a better life someday--until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother Chavo is head of the Discípulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear, does nothing. From that day forward, Hector's death hangs...
13) Joyride
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Description
"All Mexican-American teen Carly wants, at first, is to stay under the radar and do what her family expects. All [former star quarterback] Arden wants is to not do what his family expects. When their paths cross, they each realize they've been living according to the wishes of others. Carly and Arden's journey toward their true hearts --and one another--is funny, romantic, and sometimes harsh"--Amazon.com.
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English
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4th Grade Rocks
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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When fifth-grader Stella Díaz considers going to a different school than her closest friends, sees her big brother Nick receiving mail from colleges far away, and is forced to work on a project with her former bully, she suddenly realizes growing up is not quite as fun as she first thought.
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Titles for Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
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A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
17) Into the light
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English
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Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
18) Efrén divided
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English
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While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
19) L.A. weather
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English
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"L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters--Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia,...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Food
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Food
Description
"Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabé, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000."--Provided by publisher.
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