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2022.
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English
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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"One month short of her wedding day--and her thirtieth birthday--Nadia Palacio finds herself standing up to her infuriating, cheating fiancé for the first time in... well, ever. But that same courage doesn't translate to breaking the news to her Argentinian family. She's hyperventilating before facing them when she glimpses a magazine piece about a Latina woman celebrating herself--with a second quinceañera, aka Sweet 15! And that gives Nadia a...
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Primas of power volume 2
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English
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"After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago. Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations,...
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All these monsters volume 1
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them." --
Clara is ready to fight back against her abusive father, against the only life she's ever known, and most of all, against scrabs, the earth-dwelling monsters that are currently ravaging the world. When an opportunity arises for Clara to join an international monster-fighting...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
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"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"--
The Torres sisters dream of escape-- from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood and its traditions and expectations. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later her three younger sisters,...
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All these monsters volume 2
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English
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When the world was crumbling, 17-year-old Clara fought back. She escaped her abusive home and joined Team Seven, a monster-fighting squad of runaways and misfits formed to combat the scrabs terrorizing the planet. And after nearly dying in Paris, Clara and Team Seven discovered the sinister truth behind the scrab invasion. Scrabs aren't just mindless monsters set on destruction. They're being trained and weaponized by MDG, a private security firm...
12) Labyrinth lost
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Brooklyn brujas volume 1
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Fantasy [High School Readers]
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
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"Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back"--
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English
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Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
Pura Belpré Award winners
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
Pura Belpré Award winners
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
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When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"While out running errands with their mami during the Covid-19 pandemic, Marisol and Pepito play a game of Veo, Veo (I Spy) that helps them see how the workers in their neighborhood are, and will always be, essential"--
15) Kindergarten hat
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Carlos Abredo loves building forts, playing soccer, and gardening but he does not want to start kindergarten, until his new teacher reaches out to make him and his fellow students feel welcome.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
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Emilia Romero is living a double life. By day, she's a field hockey star with a flawless report card. But by night, she's kicking virtual ass as the only female member of a highly competitive eSports team. Emilia has mastered the art of keeping her two worlds thriving, which hinges on them staying completely separate. That's in part to keep her real-life persona, but also for her own safety, since girl gamers are often threatened and harassed. When...
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Series
Jimmy Vega novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Latino homicide detective Jimmy Vega must investigate the ethnically charged murder of a Hispanic woman found fifty miles north of New York City, as well as locate the baby pictured in a photograph found on the dead woman.
19) My singing Nana
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Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Billy's beloved Nana's memory is failing but they are "always amigos," so when disaster strikes the day of the family's big summer show, Billy finds a way he and Nana can save the day.
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