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Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Sofía Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when they altered the universe to help their families, they end up creating even more chaos"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Little Antonio has a LOT of names. Different relatives call him different names, but the real culture shock happens when he goes to school for the first time. A celebration of biracial heritage and cultural identity...My Name Is Cool teaches children to be proud of their heritage and the things that make them different. Different is COOL." --publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Spanish hardcover edition, first Spanish Square Fish edition.
Language
Español
Description
In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.
Author
Language
Español
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Description
When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
Author
Language
English
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Description
All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his "progressive" school still doesn't allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson. But that was ages ago, when Luis's parents were in high school; it would never happen today, right? He's determined to find a way to give his LGBTQ friends the respect they deserve (while also not risking his chance to be prom king, just saying...). When a hit on the head knocks him back in...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Shy fifteen-year-old Cuban American Victoria Cruz feels trapped by the monotony of running on the cross country team and keeping up with her studies to maintain her scholarship to her prestigious college prep school, but the chance to join a rock band in need of a lead singer gives her the opportunity to confront her anxieties, find love and disappointment, and create a new playlist for her life.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad's latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn't want to anyone find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals. But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor's grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted...
Author
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
Rico Fuentes está cansado de que lo acosen debido a su piel clara. Está harto de asistir a un centro escolar catastrófico donde hay chico que mueren a tiros, para luego volver a casa y que mamá le eche la culpa de su infelicidad. Está cansado de vivir en Harlem, entre armas de fuego y yonquis. Cuando su padre lo amenaza con enviarlo a una escuela militar en Florida, Rico decide que se marcha de Nueva York por su cuenta. Arrastrando a su mejor...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Multiple
Description
From Pura Belpr? Award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a pregonero-a singing street vendor in Cuba-and helping him sell his frutas. When we visit mi abuelo, I help him sell frutas, singing the names of each fruit as we walk, our footsteps like drumbeats, our hands like maracas, shaking... The little girl loves visiting her grandfather in Cuba and singing his...
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