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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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This “extraordinary” novel of one man’s border crossing reveals “a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free” (NPR).
Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not returned.
Héctor finds a name in...
Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not returned.
Héctor finds a name in...
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Series
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English
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2023 Rogue Reads
Books for Tweens for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
Books in English for Children 0-12 / Libros en inglés para niños y niñas de 0-12 años
Hispanic Heritage Month: October 2023
Books for Tweens for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
Books in English for Children 0-12 / Libros en inglés para niños y niñas de 0-12 años
Hispanic Heritage Month: October 2023
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
3) Kind of kin
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Language
English
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In Kind of Kin by award-winning author Rilla Askew, when a church-going, community-loved, family man is caught hiding a barn-full of illegal immigrant workers, he is arrested and sent to prison. This shocking development sends ripples through the town-dividing neighbors, causing riffs amongst his family, and spurring controversy across the state.
Using new laws in Oklahoma and Alabama as inspiration, Kind of Kin is a story of self-serving lawmakers...
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English
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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English
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J.D. Jessup, desperate to escape haunting memories, travels from Nashville to Tucson and volunteers on an organic farm where the landowner calls the border patrol if anyone sees an illegal; when J.D. finds a young woman named Maria, near death in the desert, his heart pulls him in another direction.
6) Ambassador
Author
Series
Ambassador (William Alexander) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force causing multiple mass extinctions.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young...
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 159
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
You must choose whether to bring the bad gang down or stay with them.
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Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Jasmine de los Santos has always done what's expected of her. Pretty and popular, she's studied hard, made her Filipino immigrant parents proud and is ready to reap the rewards in the form of a full college scholarship. And then everything shatters. A national scholar award invitation compels her parents to reveal the truth: their visas expired years ago. Her entire family is illegal. That means no scholarships, maybe no college...
11) The crossroads
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.
12) Indivisible
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
13) Heat
Author
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Author
Series
Luis Gonzalo novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
16) Lucky boy
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Language
English
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"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But...
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English
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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A solitary bachelor butcher in San Francisco's McCarthy-era Chinatown, Jack Szeto serves the left-behind housewives of Central Valley farm laborers, falls in love with the daughter of a shunned mortician, and triggers a heartbreaking retaliatory act.
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Language
English
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Books for Tweens for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
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Books for Tweens for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
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Description
While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efr?n Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
20) Snakehead
Author
Series
China novels volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2002
Language
English
Description
In the fourth of Peter May's China thrillers, American pathologist Margaret Campbell finds herself back on home soil, only to be faced by a truck full of dead Chinese and an unavoidable confrontation with her past.
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