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Hispanic Americans: Embracing, Enriching & Enabling America 2016 Booklist
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Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music
by Margarita Engle
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters
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Mango, Abuela, and me
by Meg Medina
When Mia's Abuela comes to live with Mia and her family, she helps her learn English while Mia learns Spanish, both with the help of a parrot named Mango
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Maya's blanket
by Monica Brown
"When a little girl's cherished baby blanket becomes old and worn, it is made into a dress, and over the years it is made into even smaller and smaller items, eventually ending up as a bookmark and inspiring the creation of a book. Includes an author's note and a glossary"
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Two white rabbits
by Jairo Buitrago
Traveling with her migrant worker father on the roof of a train known as The Beast, a little girl watches the passing scenery, from animals to soldiers, while making regular stops for her father to earn money as they move toward the U.S. border in search of a better life.
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Children's Fiction and Biography
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Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir
by Margarita Engle
In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up in two cultures during a time of cold hostility between nations. This almost-war of words shaped a sensitive young girl into an award-winning poet who enriches the world with words of a far more hopeful kind. .
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A handful of stars
by Cynthia Lord
When her blind dog slips his collar, 12-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather—but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life. Simultaneous eBook.
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I lived on Butterfly Hill
by Marjorie Agosín
With the political unrest in Chile after a military dictatorship takes over, a young girl, Celeste Marconi, is sent by her parents to Maine for her safety, where she adapts to a new life, while still dreaming of her home country
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The lightning queen
by Laura Resau
Enduring a barren existence in the 1950s Mexican mountains after losing his mother and sister, 11-year-old shepherd Teo meets a mysterious young girl in a traveling fortune-teller's caravan and forges a friendship that overcomes cultural and mystical obstacles. By the author of the Notebook series. Simultaneous eBook.
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My life in pictures
by Deborah Zemke
Drawing endlessly in order to capture her experiences of the world, young Spanish-American artist Bea Garcia is devastated when her best and only friend moves far away and a loud, rambunctious boy moves into her friend's former house.
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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before
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Caminar
by Skila Brown
Longing to assume a defensive adult role but dissuaded by his mother from confronting soldiers who have murdered a neighbor in his 1981 Guatemalan village, young Carlos joins a band of guerillas in the hope of carrying a warning to his grandmother's mountaintop home. A first novel.
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The distance between us : a memoir
by Reyna Grande
The American Book Award-winning author of Across a Hundred Mountains traces her experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing how her parents' dreams of better opportunities for their family were marked by her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education and the inspiration of Latina authors. 30,000 first printing.
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Frida & Diego : art, love, life
by Catherine Reef
A lushly designed young adult biography exploring the tumultuous lives, marriage and work of the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is illustrated with archival photos and full-color reproductions. 20,000 first printing.
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Gabi, a girl in pieces : A Girl in Pieces
by Isabel Quintero
Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend's pregnancy, Sebastian's coming out, her father's drug habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially the poetry that helps forge her identity
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Out of darkness
by Ashley Hope Pérez
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in Texas in 1937, tells the story of two teenagers--Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black--and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people
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Shadowshaper
by Daniel José Older
When her summer plans are interrupted by supernatural phenomena, Sierra finds herself in a battle with the killer targeting her family of shadowshapers who believes she is hiding their greatest secret
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Triple moon
by Melissa De la Cruz
A young adult spin-off of the best-selling Witches of East End series finds twin witches Mardi and Molly sent to live with Ingrid Beauchamp in North Hampton, where they must learn to control their havoc-wreaking powers or face exile in Limbo.
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The Amado women
by Désirée Zamorano
Southern California is ground zero for upwardly mobile middle-class Latinas. Matriarchs like Mercy Amado--despite her drunken, philandering (now ex) husband--could raise three daughters and become a teacher. Now she watches helplessly as her daughters drift apart as adults. The Latino bonds of familia don't seem to hold. Everything they know comes crashing down in a random tragic moment and Mercy must somehow make what was broken whole again"
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The book of unknown Americans
by Cristina Henríquez
Moving from Mexico to the United States when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery, and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy
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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by the author of the collection, Drown. 100,000 first printing.
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The deportation of Wopper Barraza : a novel
by Maceo Montoya
After Wopper Barraza's fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his immediate deportation. "But I haven't been there since I was a little kid," says Wopper, whose parents brought him to California when he was three years old. Now he has to move back to Michoacán. When he learns that his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, the future looks even more uncertain. Wopper's story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions.
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The house on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness
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Latin d'lite : delicious Latin recipes with a healthy twist
by Ingrid Hoffmann
The host of The Cooking Channel's Simply Delicioso presents 175 delicious Latin dishes made healthy, providing time-saving tips, nutritional substitutions and presentation suggestions for soups, salads, entrees, appetizers, desserts and more. 40,000 first printing.
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Macho! : a novel
by Victor Villaseñor
Seventeen-year-old Roberto illegally crosses the U.S. border from Mexico to work in California's vegetable fields and becomes involved in Cesar Chavez's effort to unionize the workers
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My beloved world
by Sonia Sotomayor
The first Hispanic American on the U.S. Supreme Court shares the story of her life before becoming a judge, describing her youth in a Bronx housing project, the ambition that fueled her ivy league education, and the individuals who helped shape her career
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