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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
3) Manhunters
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Texas tradition volume no. 22
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English
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Working faithfully for a Texas rancher despite his family's warnings, Chacho Fernandez steals his payment when his dishonest employer refuses to compensate him and is falsely accused of murdering a lawman.
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Books for Young Readers to Inspire Conversations
Intersectional Reads
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Intersectional Reads
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
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"A book of essays spanning the author's career a[nd] reflecting upon the various homes she's lived in around the world"--
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango...
5) Soñadores
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Español
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Libros en español para niños de 0-10 años/Books in Spanish for Children 0-10
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
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"This Spanish edition of Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales's Dreamers, published simultaneously with the English edition, is the author's own immigration story and a tribute to the transformative power of hope. and reading. In 1994, 25-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Xalapa, Mexico, to the San Francisco Bay Area with her two-month-old son, Kelly, in order to secure permanent residency in this country. Her passage was not easy and she...
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Books in English for Children 0-12 / Libros en inglés para niños y niñas de 0-12 años
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
Books in English for Children 0-12 / Libros en inglés para niños y niñas de 0-12 años
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
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Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabé, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000.
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Aristotle and Dante volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Book List for SOU Education Courses
Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
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Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
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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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Aristotle and Dante volume 2
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English
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"Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend...
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Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Juanito accompanies his grandmother to a flea market in southern California, where he helps her and the other vendors and where they enjoy seeing old friends from their Mexican-American community.
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Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
15) Again, Essie?
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"Rafael tries to save his toys from his baby sister, Essie, by building a wall from shoeboxes, toilet paper rolls, and other household objects in this playful exploration of spatial sense and geometry."--
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A young girl wishes her family could be more like her friends' families and subconsiously blames her abuela and her yellow handkerchief, but she slowly grows to appreciate and love the language and culture the handkerchief represents.
17) Dreamers
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English
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Books in English for Children 0-12 / Libros en inglés para niños y niñas de 0-12 años
Diverse Books to be Thankful for
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
Diverse Books to be Thankful for
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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Max's lucha libre adventures volume 4
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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After one last fight, the Guardian Angel will retire as the most famous luchador but his nephew, eighth-grader Maximilian, hopes to one day take over his name and his mask.
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