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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A farm-working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for workers’ rights in this tender-hearted novel in verse, perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Pam Muñoz Ryan. Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions;...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories, 3rd - 5th
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories, 3rd - 5th
Description
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...
3) Ultraviolet
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
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