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Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1968 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
6) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked... until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny. God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities...
Author
Series
Travis family romances volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Wedding planner Avery Crosslin may be a rising star in Houston society, but she doesn't believe in love-- at least not for herself. When she meets wealthy bachelor Joe Travis and mistakes him for a wedding photographer, she has no intention of letting him sweep her off her feet. After a one night stand, Avery is determined to keep it from happening again. When she's hired to plan the wedding of the year complications start piling up fast, and soon...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and sheis left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with the boy she once tried to defend from his abusive father,...
10) Taming the wind
Author
Series
Land of the Lone Star volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
As Cassie and Tyler struggle to follow their hearts, will the hardship of life on the Texas plains destroy their hope of a future together?
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Prietita, a young Mexican American girl, becomes lost in her search for an herb to cure her mother and is aided by the legendary ghost woman. While looking for an herb to cure her mother, Prietita gets lost in the woods in this English-Spanish fantasy. Prietita goes into the woods in search of the missing herb that can help cure her mother. Despite the frightening stories she has heard of the legendary ghost woman who steals children at night, she...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1. ed.
Language
Español
Description
Calpurnia, Callie Vee es una niña que vive en un pueblo de Texas Central in 1899. A pesar de que su madre insiste en que aprenda a tocar el piano, coser y cocinar, ella está más interesada en lo que ocurre tras lapuerta cerrada de la biblioteca, oen el laboratorio de su abuelo. Poco a poco, irá ganándose a este señor un tanto hurãno y empezará a colaborar con él en sus observaciones del medio natural, aprenderá quien es Darwin, y también...
14) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juaarez, 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.
Author
Series
Jace Salome novels volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Now, the war has changed everything. Most of the Brownwood men over 18 and under 45 are off fighting, and in a small town the possibilities are limited. Could this mean a season without football? But no one counted on Tylene, who learned the game at her daddy's knee. She knows more about it than most men, so she does the unthinkable, convincing the school to let her take on the job of coach..."--Amazon.com.
Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
19) Texas
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
""Engaging images accompany information about Texas. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
20) Big woods
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A ten-year-old girl disappears from small-town Texas in 1989. Her sister investigates and a reclusive woman may hold the key"--
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