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De la mano de la autora de Sabrina y Corina, finalista del National Book Award, nos llega una historia épica de traición, amor y destino que abarca cinco generaciones de una familia chicana e indígena en el oeste de los Estados Unidos.
En cada generación hay una vidente que mantiene las historias con vida.
Luz “Little Light” Lopez, lectora de hojas de té y lavandera, debe...
En cada generación hay una vidente que mantiene las historias con vida.
Luz “Little Light” Lopez, lectora de hojas de té y lavandera, debe...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Español
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Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
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Max's lucha libre adventures volume 2
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Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2013?]
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English
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Everybody is fighting in sixth-grader Maximilian's world as his elderly aunts battle for the Queen Bingo trophy, his masked uncles wrestle for the tag-team title of the world, and his sweetheart and the "new girl" battle for Max's heart.
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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...
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Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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“You can be my boyfriend.” It only takes five words to change Güero’s life at the end of seventh grade. The summer becomes extra busy as he learns to balance new band practice with his old crew, Los Bobbys, and being Joanna Padilla’s boyfriend. They call her “fregona” because she’s tough, always sticking up for her family and keeping the school bully in check. But Güero sees her softness. Together they cook dollar-store spaghetti and...
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Books on Tape
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p2005
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English
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A novel of a young girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Her neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her.
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HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Español
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"Mexican-American Stef Soto is hoping to break free from her overprotective parents and embarrassing reputation from her family's taco truck business, but she soon learns that family, friendship, and the taco truck are important and wonderful parts of her life"--
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Arte Público Press
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©2011
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Español
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"Ana es aún una jovencita cuando su padre decide mudar a su gran familia a los Estados Unidos. Ella intuye que su vida cambiará para bien. Y aunque encuentra mejores oportunidades, descubre que en los Estados Unidos, la sociedad, la familia y la religión también se confabulan para reprimirla y detenerla. Sin embargo, para poder conseguir sus objetivos, Ana debe sacrificar todo lo que valora y convertirse en un individuo desarraigado y obsesionado...
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Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
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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.
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