(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Lesley Nneka Arimah, a darkly funny and imaginative debut conjuring tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits. "The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria." From former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Marytza K. Rubio comes Maria, Maria, an inimitable collection set across the tropics and megacities of the Americas. Readers will be enticed and infuriated as characters...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Pedrito replaces, from his own earnings, money he has lost, his mother decides that he is finally big enough for some of his father's earnings to be used towards buying him a bicycle.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Father's Day Picture Books
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
Father's Day Picture Books
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
Description
"When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her"--
Author
Publisher
Celebra
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Journalist Rivera examines the growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S., fueled partly by what may be the single most divisive issue in America today: illegal immigration. With objective clarity and personal conviction, Rivera sheds light on an issue that is muddled with confusion and prejudice--and too often blamed for everything from terrorism to welfare. Examining the past--his own parents' struggle to be "real" Americans, as well as the plight...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the folk song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," friends exchange such gifts as a piñata and "cuatro luminarias." Includes pronunciation and glossary of Spanish words and a description of Christmas foods and other holiday traditions from different Latin American countries.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends.
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This resonant picture book tells the story of one girl who constantly gets asked a simple question that doesnt have a simple answer. A great conversation starter in the home or classroom--a book to share, in the spirit of I Am Enough by Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo. When a girl is asked where shes from--where shes really from--none of her answers seems to be the right one. Unsure about how to reply, she turns to her loving abuelo for help. He doesnt...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English.
Sumario en español: Cuando la niña Lucy viaja desde América Latina a Ohio para visitar a los parientes, ella es muy nostálgica hasta enterarse que la única manera de comunicarse con el perro juguetón de su primo es aprender hablar inglés.
16) Light of day
Author
Series
Destinos series volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When high school senior Gabby learns that men are drugging girls and forcing them into prostitution, she fights back using the popular radio show she hosts and captures the attention of X, a mysterious gang member determined to get pimps off the streets of Miami, who, in turn, captures her heart.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The author's first novel is a story about an American girl in Paris, who navigates the intoxicating and treacherous complexities of independence, friendship, and romance. Lita del Cielo, the daughter of two Colombian orphans who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire, has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before she must return to work in the family business. She moves into a gently crumbling...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In a time of terror for Europe's monarchs--imprisoned, exiled, executed--Napoleon's army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with his entire family, including his mentally ill mother, most of the nobility, and the entire state apparatus. Thousands made the voyage, but it was no luxury cruise. It took two months in cramped, decrepit...
Author
Publisher
Downtown Bookworks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bilingual mini biographies (in English and Spanish) introduce young readers to groundbreaking Latino leaders—from Roberto Clemente and Cesar Chavez to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sonia Sotomayor. Thoroughly engaging stories about amazing trailblazers include contemporary figures in many fields, from science and business to journalism and visual arts. Five-minute biographies provide an interesting window into each person's origins and accomplishments,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of authors Jill Leovy and Beth Macy, award-winning Buzzfeed investigative journalist Jessica Garrison unravels the real-life story of Jose Martinez, a serial killer and drug cartel debt collector responsible for the murders of Latinos in the impoverished towns of California's Central Valley, and sheds light on the lack of protection for the poor THE DEVIL'S HARVEST tells the story of Jose Martinez, a ruthless drug cartel hitman who...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request