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Celebrado desde su publicación inicial como el relato clásico de una muchada del barrio latino de Chicago, La casa en Mango Street has sido elogadio por los críticos, acogido por los niños y sus padres y abuelos y estudiado por todas partes, desde escuelas primarias en las grandes ciudades hasta universidades por todo el país. Ahora por primera vez en una edición en español, traducido por una de las más...
4) Manhunters
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Texas tradition volume no. 22
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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
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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...
7) Soñadores
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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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Aristotle and Dante volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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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.
10) Icy watermelon
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Piñata Books/Lorito Books
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[2008], c2001
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English
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When three generations of a family gather to eat watermelon, the grandparents reminisce about how the sweet fruit brought them together.
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Henry Holt and Company
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2022.
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"A kaleidoscopic, emotionally charged debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino families on the Texas coast. Unflinching, lyrical, and singular, The Last Karankawas is a portrait of America rarely witnessed, where browning palm trees and oily waters mark the forefront of ecological change. It is a deeply imagined exploration of familial inheritance, human perseverance, and the histories we assign to ourselves, establishing Kimberly...
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