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"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Banned Books Week
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Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
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Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death. A Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month Fiction
Nevada Reading Week Grades 8-12
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Hispanic Heritage Month Fiction
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The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
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Carina Press
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The “poor handsome man.” Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra “Alex” Torres turning Loretta’s, her grandmother’s bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family’s admiration; she won’t let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too. Alex blowing into town has rocked...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer.
Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, and she joins Antonio Marez's family when he is six years old, teaching him the magical secrets of the pagan past.
6) Home at last
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Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When she and her family move from Mexico to the United States, eight-year-old Ana helps her mother adjust to the new situation by encouraging her to learn English.
7) Piñata
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2023.
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English
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"“This creepy, fast-paced read brings a fresh voice to horror…. Fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, and V Castro will devour this bloody tale of vengeful spirits and the dark legacy of colonialism.”٬٢٠١٥؛Booklist A Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout. It was supposed to be the perfect summer. Carmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the...
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Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Books for Aspiring Readers
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Rainy Day Reads
Stonewall Book Award - Young Adult
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Rainy Day Reads
Stonewall Book Award - Young Adult
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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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2020.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
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Space-obsessed 12-year-old Paola Santiago and her two best friends, Emma and Dante, know the rule: Stay away from the river. It's all they've heard since a schoolmate of theirs drowned a year ago. Pao is embarrassed to admit that she has been told to stay away for even longer than that, because her mother is constantly warning her about La Llorona, the wailing ghost woman who wanders the banks of the Gila at night, looking for young people to drag...
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Lyons Press
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"A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America"--
13) L.A. weather
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
16) Fiesta babies
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Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Babies enjoy the colorful fiesta with singing, dancing, hugs, and kisses.
17) A day's work
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
18) Esperanza rising
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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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Growing up Daisy volume 1
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Ten-year-old Daisy Martinez is excited to begin fourth grade! Daisy and her BFF Blanca are both in room 210 with the wonderful new teacher, Ms. Lilly. When Ms. Lilly calls her class super smart superstars, Daisy decides she's going to prove that she's both. Their first project for Ms. Lilly's class is an essay on their summer--can Daisy write an essay that will impress her new teacher?"--P. [4] of cover.
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Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2019
Language
English
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"From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why 12-year-old Orly doesn't want to visit. Though he's still grieving...
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