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Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
3) Reaching out
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English
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Leaving his home in a migrant community, Francisco sets off for college, carrying memories of years of poverty and prejudice.
4) Indian shoes
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HarperCollins
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English
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Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
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English
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. Nothing is...
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Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
7) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Zen books (Jon J Muth) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. "Michael," said Karl. "There's a really big bear in the backyard." This is how three children meet Stillwater, a giant panda who moves into the neighborhood and tells amazing tales. To Addie he tells a story about the value of material goods. To Michael he pushes the boundaries of good and bad. And to Karl he demonstrates...
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation. This is the story of one young girl who took the time to observe and learn, and in so doing disproved a theory that went all the way back to ancient Greece.
9) Creation
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of the biblical story shares the details of how light, water, earth, and living creatures came to be.
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Series
Crispin volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
11) Verdi
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Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
12) Purple Heart
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south. These two young men, empowered by their successes in the Nashville student movement, were among those who volunteered to continue...
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Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As a Confederate family prepares for Passover the day after the Civil War has ended, a Yankee arrives on their Virginia doorstep and is invited to share their meal, to the dismay of ten-year-old Jacob. Includes historical notes about Corporal Myer Levy, on whom the story is based, and his prominent Philadelphia family.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Long ago, as truth descended onto earth, it split in two: one piece landing among the people and the other blazing through the sky. When the people discover the piece of truth, it gives them strength and happiness. But over time, it turns them arrogant and greedy. They do not share their truth with others, wars rage on, and the earth begins to suffer. Then a Little Girl eager for change journeys to find Old Turtle, seeking the precious piece of wisdom...
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