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1) House arrest
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
Español
Description
Desde las calles de Stockton hasta las playas de Venice Beach, y hasta la frontera con México, Aquí estuvimos narra el viaje de autodescubrimiento de un niño que intenta perdonarse a sí mismo en un mundo implacable. Cuando sucedió, a Miguel lo enviaron al centro de detención juvenil. El juez lo sentenció a un año en una casa hogar para menores; dijo que tenía que escribir en un diario para que algún consejero pudiera tratar de entender su...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life can change in an instant. When you're wrongfully accused of a crime. When a virus shuts everything down. When the girl you love moves on. Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn't feel like coming home. His Portland, Oregon, neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying, and COVID-19 shuts down school before he can return. And Andre's suspicions about his arrest for a crime he didn't commit even taint his friendships....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel wars in Mexico. The Aztecs came from a place called Aztlan, what is now the Southwest US, called the land of the cranes. They left Aztlan to establish their great city in the center of the universe-Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. It was prophesized that their people would one day return to live among the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Betita, de nueve ąos, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le cont̤ la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los ℓngeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en M̌xico. Los aztecas proced̕an de un lugar llamado Aztl̀n, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa 'tierra de las grullas', y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitl̀n, la actual Ciudad de M̌xico. Cuenta una profes̕a que...
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