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Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
Author
Series
Caribbean kitchen mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While filming a Three Kings Day special in Old San Juan, a cooking show sensation fends off a stalker and investigates when her costar goes missing.
"In the third installment of the Caribbean Kitchen mysteries, for fans of Mia P. Manansala , Miriam Quiñones, cooking show sensation and amateur sleuth, has sand between her toes and a murderer nipping at her heels. A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz...
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when they altered the universe to help their families, they end up creating even more chaos"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ages 8-12.
Rafa goes to work on a Rancho Espanto as punishment for a prank gone wrong, where he discovers a mystery as inexplicable as it is familiar and ultimately leads to Rafa learning hard truths about himself.
"A new middle grade novel from Adrianna Cuevas―author of the Pura Belpré Honor Book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez―about a Cuban American boy who's sent to work on a ranch as punishment for a school prank gone wrong,...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With girlfriend Erika, a full-scholarship to college, and a busy life with his tribe of close friends, high school senior Marco Suarez holds tightly to his carefully choreographed life, until Sally, his first kiss, moves back to Miami.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old Cuban American joins a salsa class to meet a girl, then invites her to spend the summer with his family in Havana. They investigate his mother's reasons for leaving Cuba decades earlier, learning about the impact politics can have on individual lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
From FSG Classics, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the...
11) A song of frutas
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
12) All for one
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dom, Pancho, Steph, and their noble steed, Rocco, are ready for their next adventure! When their beloved El Senor Fuentes asks Dom to run a very important errand--to put the order in at the local butcher shop for his daughter, Leni's, upcoming quinceanera--Dom is happy to help. But when Senor Fuentes discovers the order was never put in--and the food for the party has been sold to someone else--Dom takes a cue from The Three Musketeers to try and...
13) Anchored hearts
Author
Series
Keys to love volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly for a second time when award-winning photographer and prodigal son Alejandro ends up back home, forced to face the familia--and the girl he left behind--for the first time in years. Can these two Key West natives learn to put away old hurts and embrace a new future under the tropical sun?"--
14) Finding my elf
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Single All the Way meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this festive romcom about Cam, who’s trying to find the “the one” and also trying to find himself—while spending winter break working at a hectic Santa’s Village. Escaping to NYU for college didn’t turn out the way Cameron planned—he’s flunking his theater classes, about to lose his scholarship, and he still hasn’t found anyone he can call his “people.” When he gets...
15) Sherlock Dom
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dom is excited to join her friend, Steph, for a mini vacation. They are going to visit Steph's grandmother....As soon as they arrive, they find that Gran's neighbors have lost their goat! There are some mysterious footprints near the goat pen that lead to the marsh. Dom decides to use the methods of her favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes—observing the basics, using all her senses, and talking it through with her trusty friend—to try...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Anita loves to bake with her abuela, especially when they are using her grandmother's special recipes for Cuban desserts like flan! Anita is making flan for Abuelo's birthday, but when she accidentally breaks Abuelita's treasured flan serving plate from Cuba, she struggles with what to do. Anita knows it's right to tell the truth, but what if Abuelita gets upset? Worried that she has already ruined the day, Anita tries to be the best helper. After...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending Christmas with her Cuban American grandmother in Miami, Florida, young Nina misses her usual New England holiday but enjoys learning about the foods and other traditions her father knew as a child.
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The whims of politics are at the fore of Guillermo Vincente Vidal's memoir, in which young boys become men in the shadow of revolution and personal turmoil. Vidal writes about his family's participation in events that forever altered U.S.-Cuban relations after an effort to free children from the threat of Communist rule sparked Operation Peter Pan. From chance encounters with Fidel Castro and Robert F. Kennedy to life in a dismal Catholic orphanage...
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