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"Hoy es sábado, el día más ajetreado en la panadería, y desde la ventana de mi cuarto veo que el carro de tía aún está en la entrada. El estómago me pega un brinco. La gente aquí a veces guarda secretos acerca de cosas importantes. Ejemplo número uno: no me dijeron nada del Alzheimer de Lolo hasta que yo sola tuve que descubrirlo por mi cuenta el año pasado. ¿Y si ahora guardan otro secreto, esta vez acerca de tía?"--From back cover.
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Ages 8-12.
Rafa goes to work on a Rancho Espanto as punishment for a prank gone wrong, where he discovers a mystery as inexplicable as it is familiar and ultimately leads to Rafa learning hard truths about himself.
Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father's increasing restrictions and his mother's fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into...
23) Finding my elf
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Escaping to NYU for college didn't turn out the way Cameron planned--he's flunking his theater classes, about to lose his scholarship, and he still hasn't found anyone he can call his "people." When he gets home for winter break, he's so desperate to avoid a Conversation with his dad that he takes the first acting job he can get--as a mall elf. Despite how Scroogey he feels, the plus side is that there's a cash prize for the most festive of Santa's...
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Merci Suarez volume 3
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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For Merci Suarez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always traveling...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Cuando visitamos a abuelo, lo ayudo a vender frutas, pregonando los nombres de cada una mientras caminamos: nuestros pasos repican como tambores, nuestras manos, cual maracas, agitan las brillantes siluetas de las frutas mientras cantamos...con ritmo 'Mango limon coco melon naranja toronja platano pina' ...Vivo lejos de abuelo, pero podemos cantar rimas de ida y vuelta entre nuestros dos paises, nuestros versos en papel vuelan como aves cantoras,...
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Charlesbridge
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[2023]
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Español
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A Anita le encanta cocinar con su abuela, particularmente cuando tienen que usar las recetas especiales de la abuela para hacer postres cubanos, ¡como el flan! Anita está haciendo un flan para el cumpleaños de Abuelo, pero accidentalmente rompe el plato especial para servir el flan, que Abuela había traído de Cuba. Anita no sabe qué hacer. Sabe que tiene que decir la verdad, pero... ¿y si Abuelita se enoja? Anita siente que arruinó el día...
28) Ballad & dagger
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Outlaw saints volume 1
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Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
When the island of San Madrigal disappeared into the sea., the survivors escaped to New York. Mateo, now a high school junior...
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Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Cuando Fortuna, la tia de Estrella, tiene que despedirse de su antiguo edificio de apartamentos en Miami, The Seaway, para mudarse a una comunidad de vida asistida, Estrella pasa todo el dia con ella. Su tia le explica el significado de sus posesiones mas importantes, tanto de su cultura cubana como judia, mientras ambas se despiden y exploran un nuevo comienzo para la tia. Un conmovedor libro sobre la tradicion, la cultura y la union familiar,...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"En esta inolvidable narrativa multicultural sobre la mayor̕a de edad, basada en la infancia del autor en la ďcada de 1960, una joven inmigrante cubano-jud̕a se est̀ adaptando a su nueva vida en la ciudad de Nueva York cuando su suęo americano se descarrila repentinamente. La dif̕cil situaci̤n de Ruthie intrigar̀ a los lectores, y su poderosa historia de fuerza y resistencia, llena de color, luz y conmoci̤n, permanecer̀ con...
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[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they buy a little house, una casita. It may be small, but they soon prove that there's room enough to share with a whole community"--
"It was a little house. Una casita . . . It was small. It smelled like old wet socks. . . But even though they were far from home, The family was together." As Esperanza and her family settle into their new house, they all do their part to make it...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Oriol nació en Cuba, pero vive en Santa Bárbara, California, donde no logra encontrar su sitio. Sin embargo, pasa muchos buenos momentos cuando ayuda a sus padres en la clínica veterinaria de la familia, donde cuidan animales heridos. La primera ganadora latinoamericana de un Premio Nobel de Literatura, la poeta Gabriela Mistral, se muda entonces a Santa Bárbara, y Oriol se descubre confesándole que aspira a ser escritora. Cuando la jovencita...
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"It was a little house. Una casita ... It was small. It smelled like old wet socks... But even though they were far from home, The family was together." As Esperanza and her family settle into their new house, they all do their part to make it a home, working multiple jobs and doing chores to pitch in. When Mami's sister Conchita comes to stay with them, she helps other families by taking care of their children during the day. Together they turn the...
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[2023]
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When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
35) Wild dreamers
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Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
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[2024]
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English
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Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
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