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"When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at...
4) The leavers
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Language
English
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
When a father is taken away from his family and faces deportation, his family is left to grieve and wonder what comes next. Maricela, Manual, and their mother face the many challenges and changes created by their father's absence. A new home, missed soccer games and birthday parties, and emptiness are now day-to-day norms. But Maricela learns that her love for her father is sustained even though he is no longer part of her daily life.
8) Indivisible
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
9) Blue bayou
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a Korean adoptee, raised in the Lousiana bayou and living with his wife and stepdaughter, who must confront his past when he discovers that he could be deported.
10) Blue bayou
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a Korean adoptee, raised in the Lousiana bayou and living with his wife and stepdaughter, who must confront his past when he discovers that he could be deported.
13) The grief keeper
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid. When she pictured an American life for herself, she dreamed of a life like Aimee and Amber's, the title characters of her favorite American TV show. She never pictured fleeing her home in El Salvador under threat of death and stealing across the US...
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Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen edition 40th Anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Cheech and Chong make their film debut in this riotous rock'n'roll comedy, bringing with them the same madness, lifestyles, and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early '70s.
16) X: a novel
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English
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A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, and dungeons across New York City, X is a novel that delves into the psyches of characters on the margins. The world is ending, and down-and-out sadist Lee spends their days working for a big corporation and their nights wandering the streets of Brooklyn listening to true crime podcasts. But everything changes when Lee is dragged to a warehouse party...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a crucial, searing story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and the power of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
19) Mango moon
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Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Maricela, her brother Manuel, and mother face many challenges when her father is taken away to face deportation, but love binds them close.
Author
Publisher
Penny Candy Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Luca and his brother, who are citizens, must travel to Mexico with his undocumented parents, who have been deported, he must live in his grandmother's house but takes comfort in his trumpet that reminds him of his home and his friends.
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