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2022.
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2024 (Gr. 6-8)
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 6-8 2023
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2023
Lone Star List 2024 (Gr. 6-8)
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 6-8 2023
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2023
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Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights.
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Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
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[2021]
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Español
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Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le cont ĺa historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un lugar llamado Aztlán, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa tierra de las grullas, y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitlń, la actual Ciudad de Mx́ico. Cuenta una profesía que su gente...
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