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Me, Frida
by Amy Novesky
Feeling lost when she arrives in San Francisco with her husband, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo explores the city and receives inspiration from its beauty, diversity and exuberance before rising to become one of the most influential Mexican painters of the mid-20th century. Illustrated by the Caldecott Medal-winning artist of Smoky Night.
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Calling the Doves
by Juan Felipe Herrera
The Mexican-American poet tells the story of his childhood as a migrant farmhand in the fields of California, where his parents taught him a love for life outdoors and handed down the precious gift of poetry.
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Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
by Veronica Chambers
Offers a look at the childhood of the world-famous Cuban salsa singer, and the early inspirations that helped her rags-to-riches dream come true.
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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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Esperanza Rising
by Pam Munoz Ryan
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.
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Chato and the Party Animals
by Gary Soto
Saddened by Novio Boy's story that he came from the pound and never knew his actual birthday, Chato decides to throw him a great surprise party and invites all of his cool cat friends to the bash, in a lively tale by the creators of Chato's Kitchen.
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Niño Wrestles the World
by Yuyi Morales
Believing himself capable of fending off the most monstrous opponents, underpants-clad Lucha Libre champion Niño is challenged by a no-holds-barred wrestling match that truly tests his skills when his younger sisters wake up from their naps.
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Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by Kathleen Krull
After living a difficult childhood as the son of parents who worked hard as poor, migrant workers in the fields of California, young Cesar took the initiative to change the system through a series of non-violent protests that helped improve the working conditions for thousands.
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The Dreamer
by Pam Munoz Ryan
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
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Forest world
by Margarita Engle
Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
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Finding miracles
by Julia Alvarez
Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.
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Cuba 15: A Novel
by Nancy Osa
Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.
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Mexican Whiteboy
by Matt de la Pena
As a child of a Mexican father and blonde, blue-eyed mother, Danny finds it difficult that everyone thinks they know who and what he is just by the color of his skin and so goes to spend time with his father in Mexico in the hopes of getting in touch with his roots and the person he believes himself to be.
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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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Becoming Naomi León
by Pam Munoz Ryan
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
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The Living
by Matt de la Pena
Taking a summer job on a Pacific luxury cruise liner to help his struggling family, Shy anticipates a season of lucrative tips and pretty girlfriends only to have everything radically transformed by a massive California earthquake that jeopardizes the survival of everyone he knows.
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Representing the letter “Z” in a series of 26 collectible editions, a new design of a classic novel follows the son of an antiquarian book dealer who stumbles upon a dark secret while trying to discover why all copies of a mysterious author's books are being systematically destroyed.
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The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
by Francisco X. Stork
Relocated to a boys' home while plotting to kill his sister's murderer, Pancho is unexpectedly assigned to be a companion to brain-cancer patient, D.Q., who regales Pancho with descriptions of the Death Warrior creed and the honorable example of the beautiful Marisol. By the author of Marcelo in the Real World.
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Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic novel.
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How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez
Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.
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Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish
by Juan Felipe Herrera
A poetic celebration of family and culture presents entries in both English and Spanish that evince life between two different worlds, and is complemented by whimsical black-and-white illustrations.
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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
by Meg Medina
Believed to possess magical powers by fellow villagers who beg her for prayers and credit her with ending a terrible storm, 16-year-old Sonia, knowing herself to be an ordinary girl, jumps at an offer to move to the city where she can live a normal life.
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