Adrianna Cuevas
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English
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"All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad's latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn't want to anyone find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals. But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor's grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"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 the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never could've imagined-a month working on a ranch in New Mexico, far away from his friends, their game, and his mom's...
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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While trying to figure out which of their brain parts is exciting enough for the Monster High talent show, Frankie Stein discovers they are the product of a disgraced scientist accused of unethical experiments and teams up with Draculaura and Clawdeen to discover the truth.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes. Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
©2021.
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English
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
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TAB 2022: Williamsburg
Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
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TAB 2022: Williamsburg
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In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Español
Description
Cuando la fallida invasi�on de Bah�ia de Cochinos en 1961 solidifica el poder de Castro en Cuba, la familia de Cumba, de doce a�nos, toma la dif�icil decisi�on de enviarlo solo a la Florida. Ante la idea de vivir en otro pa�is por s�i mismo, Cumba intenta recordar el sonido del clarinete de su padre, el olor del perfume de lavanda de su madre. La vida en Estados Unidos presenta toda una nueva serie de desaf�ios. Perdido en un mar de...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Lo único que Néstor López quiere es vivir en un mismo lugar por más de unos meses y cenar con su papá. Después de que el papá de Néstor se marcha a otra misión, el muchacho y su mamá se mudan a un nuevo pueblo a vivir con su abuela. Néstor planea pasar desapercibido, y de ninguna manera quiere que nadie sepa su secreto más profundo: que puede hablar con los animales. Pero cuando los animales del pueblo comienzan a desaparecer, la abuela...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Frani loves living with her dad at the Central Texas Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, but having bodies buried in her backyard doesn't exactly make her the most popular kid in school. But when a hand snakes across the ground and grabs her ankle, Frani realizes she's got bigger problems. Now she must help the teenage zombie--before he gets too hungry. As more and more zombies begin to appear, they seem to get less and less friendly. Can Frani...
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