Sanchez
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie is handed a crappy senior year. Despite losing thirty pounds over the summer, he still gets called "Chunks" Grisner. What's worse, he has to share a locker with the biggest Lord of the Rings freak his school has ever seen. He also can't figure out whether Charlotte VanderKleaton, the beautiful strawberry lip-glossed new girl, likes him the way he likes her. Oh, and then there's his mom. She's disappeared — again — and his dad won't...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Books in English for Adults & Teens / Libros en inglés para adultos y adolescentes
National Hispanic Heritage Month Reads
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Books in English for Adults & Teens / Libros en inglés para adultos y adolescentes
National Hispanic Heritage Month Reads
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Description
Publisher Annotation: A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico border, inspired by current events.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE FICCIÓN JUVENIL DEL 2021 SEGÚN EL YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION (YALSA) La travesía llena de peligros, resiliencia, dolor y esperanza, de tres adolescentes guatemaltecos que cruzan la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos. Pulga lleva sus sueños consigo. Chico carga el dolor de perder a su madre. Pequeña tiene su orgullo. Estos tres adolescentes se tienen el uno al otro y no se hacen ilusiones sobre la...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Finalista del National Book Award!Bestseller del?New York Times ! Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se qued? en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sue?os y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle m?s concurrida...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2022 Youth Media Awards
2022-2023 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
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2022-2023 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
More Lists...
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
6) Amanecer
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home.
“Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York Times
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away...
“Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York Times
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK *
From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II.
Fourteen
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