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All of Us with Wings
by Michelle Ruiz Keil
Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rock-star family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in their household, which is relaxed and happy despite the band's larger-than-life fame.
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Analee, in Real Life
by Janelle Milanes
Ever since her mom died three years ago, Analee Echevarria has had trouble saying out loud the weird thoughts that sit in her head. With a best friend who hates her and a dad who’s marrying a yogi she can’t stand, Analee spends most of her time avoiding reality and role-playing as Kiri, the night elf hunter at the center of her favorite online game.
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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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Ball Don't Lie
by Matt de la Peña
Raised in the foster system, Sticky has an attitude that is unwelcoming to all who approach, yet determined to make his way in the world, Sticky heads to the basketball court where he learns that his skills as a player and his will to succeed in life is all he really needs to find his own way in the world. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
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Barely Missing Everything
by Matt Méndez
Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter.
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Efren Divided by Ernesto CisnerosWorrying about his undocumented parents, who have worked hard to secure a safe life for their family, a young Mexican American struggles to find his inner courage when his beloved mother is arrested and deported. A first novel. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Dealing in Dreams
by Lilliam Rivera
Wearying of her violent life on the streets, the leader of an all-girl crew pursues entry into the exclusive Mega Towers for the privileged elite by tracking down and infiltrating a mysterious gang to commit an unspeakable act.
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Labyrinth Lost
by Zoraida Córdova
Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back.
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Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia
by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her crush, Andy Cooper, Frenchie, whose friends do not know she was the last person to see Andy alive, obsessively retraces each step of their tumultuous final encounter and looks to the poetry of Emily Dickinson for guidance. By the author of The Downside of Being Charlie.
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More Happy Than Not
by Adam Silvera
Struggling with memories of his impoverished youth, being abandoned by his friends and losing his father to suicide, Aaron attempts to forget his own identity through memory-altering therapy when his homosexuality affects a new friendship.
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Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Separated from her mother in the years following a painful ICE raid, Sia drives into the desert and lights prayerful candles on every new moon before an astonishing night when her mother emerges from a blue spacecraft that crashes in front of her car.
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The Education of Margot Sanchez
by Lilliam Rivera
Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.
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The Go-Between
by Veronica Chambers
Cammi, the daughter of two high-profile actors, struggles with changes after a move from Mexico City to Los Angeles, including the wrongful assumptions held about her by snooty new classmates whose prejudices Cammi decides to play into, but the more she lies about who she is, the more she wonders who she's really fooling.
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The Grief Keeper
by Alexandra Villasante
Wanting to enjoy an amazing life in America like her favorite television characters, an undocumented 17-year-old bargains for her asylum by becoming a grief keeper to save someone else's life.
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The truth is
by NoNieqa Ramos
Closed off and grieving her best friend, fifteen-year-old overachiever Verdad faces prejudices at school and from her traditional mother, her father's distance since his remarriage, and her attraction to a transgender classmate.
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The Radius of Us
by Marie F. Marquardt
Told in alternating first person points of view, The Radius of Us is a story of love, sacrifice, and the journey from victim to survivor. It offers an intimate glimpse into the causes and devastating impact of Latino gang violence, both in the U.S. and in Central America, and explores the risks that victims take when they try to start over. Most importantly, Marie Marquardt's The Radius of Us shows how people struggling to overcome trauma can find healing in love.
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Tigers, Not Daughters
by Samantha Mabry
A follow-up to the National Book Award-longlisted All the Wind in the World follows the experiences of three younger sisters whose dream of escape is thwarted by the loss of their older sister, whose ghost they believe haunts their San Antonio home.
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Woven in Moonlight
by Isabel Ibañez
Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal. Her people lost everything when the usurper, Atoc, used an ancient relic to summon ghosts and drive the Illustrians from La Ciudad. Now Ximena’s motivated by her insatiable thirst for revenge, and her rare ability to spin thread from moonlight. When Atoc demands the real Condesa’s hand in marriage, it’s Ximena’s duty to go in her stead. She relishes the chance, as Illustrian spies have reported that Atoc’s no longer carrying his deadly relic. If Ximena can find it, she can return the true aristócrata to their rightful place.
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick your Ass
by Meg Medina
Informed that a bully she does not know is determined to beat her up because of her pale skin, good grades and lack of accent, Latin American teen Piddy struggles to stay on top of a busy work schedule and learn more about the father she has never met until the bully's gang forces her to confront more difficult challenges.
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Becoming Maria: love and chaos in the South Bronx
by Sonia Manzano
The award-winning author of The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and influential Hispanic-American actress best known as "Maria" on Sesame Street traces her disadvantaged childhood and dreams of becoming an actress that motivated her career.
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Enchanted Air
by Margarita Engle
In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.
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We Are Here to Stay
by Susan Kuklin
Documents the stories of nine undocumented immigrants to the United States, fleeing violence and seeking freedom, detailing how each youth left their homelands to start a new life in America.
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