Love, Amalia
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Alma Flor Ada
Amalia learns many life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away
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I lived on Butterfly Hill
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Marjorie Agosín
A tale inspired by the Pinochet takeover of Chile follows the experiences of young dreamer Celeste Marconi, who becomes increasingly alarmed by the disappearances of her neighbors in the wake of political unrest and then is sent away to safety by her loving parents.
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How Tía Lola came to visit stay
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Julia Alvarez
Miguel embarks on a journey of self-discovery when Tfa Lola, his eccentric aunt from the Dominican Republic--who paints their house purple, drapes her lace mantilla across the windows, and puts meatballs in his lunch--comes to live with them after his Mami gets divorced.
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Return to sender
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Julia Alvarez
When the family hires Mexican migrant workers to help keep the family farm from going under after his father's tractor accident, Tyler befriends the workers' eldest daughter, Mari, and learns of her great fears in getting deported if the authorities find out about them and their illegal status.
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The Smoking Mirror by David Bowles Carol and Johnny Garza are 12-year-old twins whose lives in a small Texas town are forever changed by their mother's unexplained disappearance. Shipped off to relatives in Mexico by their grieving father, the twins soon learn that their mother is a "nagual," a shapeshifter, and that they have inherited her powers. In order to rescue her, they will have to descend into the Aztec underworld and face the dangers that await them.
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Ana María Reyes does not live in a castle
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Hilda Eunice Burgos
"With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana María Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school"
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Allie, first at last
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Angela Cervantes
Born into a family of over-achievers, fifth-grader Allie Velasco has never finished first in anything, and lately things have been going badly—her science project is ruined by a well-meaning student, her former best friend is hanging out with another girl—but now Allie is determined to win the Trailblazer contest with a photographic presentation about her great grandfather, the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner from their town. Simultaneous eBook.
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Sylvia & Aki
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Winifred Conkling
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation
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The wild book
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Margarita Engle
A portrait in verse traces the story of the author's grandmother, Fefa, who grows up in Cuba and struggles with dyslexia until her mother presents her with a blank book that Fefa uses to practice increasingly skillful "wild writing." By the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Surrender Tree. 20,000 first printing.
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The red umbrella
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Christina Diaz Gonzalez
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been
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Any Small Goodness : A Novel of the Barrio
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Tony Johnston
A touching novel filled with love, hope, and fellowship follows a loving Mexican-American family that resides in East L.A. as they immerse themselves in the warmth of their close-knit community. Reprint.
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Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer
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Kelly Jones
Feeling like a fish out of water when her family moves from Los Angeles to a recently inherited chicken farm, 12-year-old Sophie encounters a telekinetic chicken and her equally unusual flockmates, who are endangered by a thieving farmer. Simultaneous eBook.
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Freddie Ramos takes off : Freddie Ramos Takes Off
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Jacqueline Jules
Freddie Ramos finds a mysterious package outside his Starwood Park Apartments home containing sneakers that allow him to run faster than a train, and inspire him to perform heroic deeds.
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Step up to the plate, Maria Singh
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Uma Krishnaswami
"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"
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A handful of stars
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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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Merci Suárez changes gears
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Meg Medina
Alienated from her more privileged classmates at a Florida private school, sixth-grade scholarship student Merci Suarez is targeted by a competitive rival at the same time her beloved grandfather begins to develop memory problems. By the award-winning author of Mango, Abuela, and Me
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A dash of trouble
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Anna Meriano
Sneaking out of school and into the family bakery where she has been told she is too young to help prepare for the annual Dia de los Muertos festival, Leonora discovers that her female relatives come from a long line of brujas, Mexican witches, who pour a bit of sweet magic into everything they prepare. Simultaneous eBook.
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The first rule of punk
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Celia C. Pérez
When her first day at a new school is overshadowed by a clash with a queen bee and her dress code violating punk-rock clothes, 12-year-old Malú listens to her faraway dad's advice and resolves to be herself by pursuing the interests she loves and standing up to an anti-punk administration. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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The lightning queen
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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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Becoming Naomi León
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Pam Muñoz Ryan
Happily living with Gram and her little brother at the Avocado Acres Trailer Rancho, talented soap carver Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw, labelled by her classmates as "nothing special," finds her life forever changed by the return of her mother, who has been gone for seven years.
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Echo
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Pam Muñoz Ryan
Decades after a man is entwined in a prophecy-based quest involving three mysterious sisters and a harmonica, three individuals from different areas of the world confront daunting challenges involving the same harmonica. By the award-winning author of Paint the Wind. Simultaneous eBook.
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Esperanza renace/ Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan Spanish edition. 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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Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz 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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The dreamer
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Pam Muñoz 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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Baseball in April and other stories by Gary Soto A collection of eleven short stories focuses on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.
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Meet Josefina, an American girl
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Valerie Tripp
After Mama's death, Josefina and her sisters struggle to maintain their lives at their New Mexican rancho, until their grandfather arrives from Mexico with a special surprise that brings new joy into their home, in a story set in 1824.
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