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Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son, and the trusted dog walker for his wealthy New York City neighbors. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri?s charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she...
3) Parachutes
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English
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Speak enters the world of Gossip Girl in this modern immigrant story from New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang about two girls navigating wealth, power, friendship, and trauma.
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Levine Querido
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English
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2023 Youth Media Awards
Celebrate Jewish Heritage Month 2025
Printz Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
Reading with PRIDE!
Celebrate Jewish Heritage Month 2025
Printz Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
Reading with PRIDE!
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Publisher Annotation: Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young emigrants goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her....
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Publisher Annotation: Sixteen-year-old Ana is a poet and a lover of language. Except that since she moved to New Jersey from Argentina, she can barely find the words to express how she feels. At first Ana just wants to return home. Then she meets Harrison, the very cute, very American boy in her math class, and discovers the universal language of racing hearts. But when she begins spending time with Neo, the Greek Cypriot boy from ESL, Ana wonders...
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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
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Publisher Annotation: A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico border, inspired by current events.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are--not a war, but a revolution.
10) Just say yes
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2024.
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
11) A million to one
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English
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An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat off the Titanic.
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Princess Diana of Themyscira's 16th birthday celebrations are cut short when refugees break through to her island home and she defies her Amazon elders by trying to bring the outsiders to safety, but a stormy sea sweeps her away to where she must learn to survive in a foreign world full of danger and injustice.
14) Cazadora
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Series
Wolves of no world volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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After revealing her hybrid nature to Septimus beyond her pack, Manu hopes that superstition and suspicion do not prevent her and her friends from finding allies in their fight for a better future.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude"-- Provided by publisher.
16) Illegal
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English
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To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
17) Lobizona
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When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal.
19) No somos de aquí
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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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...
20) Solis
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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Told in four voices, four prisoners, including undocumented seventeen-year-old Rania, rebel against the corrupt and xenophobic government of the New American Republic that exploits undocumented immigrants in deadly labor camps to mine a world-changing chemical.
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