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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Enrique "Quique" Luna decides to get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi before the end of summer by pursuing other romantic prospects, but he ends up discovering heartfelt truths about friendship, family, and himself.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"--
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Appears on list
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"'La frontera'... I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la front era, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California - to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Description
A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s, especially for thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco, and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
31) So hard to say
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Thirteen-year-old Xio, a Mexican American girl, and Frederick, who has just moved to California from Wisconsin, quickly become close friends, but when Xio starts thinking of Frederick as her boyfriend, he must confront his feelings of confusion and face the fear that he might be gay.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Wonderbooks edition.
Description
"The story of the 1931 Lemon Grove incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first school desegregation case in United States history. Told in Spanish and English. Includes a corrido (ballad), and information about the people involved and events leading up to and after the court case ruling"--
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