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Questioneers volume 4
Language
English
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When her abuelo is injured at the local landfill, second-grader Sofia is determined to transform the dangerous Mount Trashmore into a park, taking on City Hall in the process.
2) Harbor me
Author
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Realistic Fiction [Middle School Readers]
Black Lives Matter: Middle Grade Stories
Recent TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audio
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Black Lives Matter: Middle Grade Stories
Recent TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audio
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Science Fiction [High School Readers]
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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On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure-to live a lifetime in a single...
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Series
Brooklyn brujas volume 3
Language
English
Description
Before she can return home to help heal her broken family, teenaged Rose Mortiz must come to terms with her new powers and work with others to save the magical land of Adas.
Rose Mortiz has brand-new powers she doesn't understand, and her family is still trying to figure out how to function in the wake of her amnesiac father's return home. Then, on the night of her Deathday party, Rose discovers her father's memory loss has been a lie. As she rushes...
6) My vida loca
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sofia's adventures and disasters continue in this compilation of three previously published books.
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English
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"When a young girl is asked where she's from-where she's really from-she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
8) Bruja born
Author
Series
Brooklyn brujas volume 2
Language
English
Description
Still feeling broken after her family's battle in Los Lagos, Lula invokes a dark spell to bring her boyfriend and others back after a fatal bus crash, but unwittingly raises an army of hungry, half-dead casimuertos, instead.
10) A girl like me
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color" --
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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"Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Marisol. It's not long before Julián and Marisol set off for some magic and mischief of their own, and when things take an unexpected turn, the pair learns that everything is easier with a good friend by your side"--
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Series
Zapato Power volume 9
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Freddie Ramos has shoes that give him super speed, super bounce, and super hearing. His friend Mr. Vaslov invented the shoes. Now Freddie is helping him work on a drone. Freddie's excited until he learns the drone's job is to assist Mr. Vaslov. Is Freddie being replaced by a flying robot? At home, Freddie's mom has a new boyfriend, David. Freddie doesn't know how to feel about David and worries his mom won't have time for him now. How can Zapato Power...
Author
Series
Zapato Power volume 10
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When an accident sidelines Freddie, he works on a new invention with Mr. Vaslov and tries to solve a mystery, aided by someone who is just the right size for his old super-powered shoes.
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English
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"It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what's coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and...
Author
Series
Zapato Power volume 8
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Freddie Ramos tries to use his superpowers to help improve his math grade, and to find the new first-grader, Amy, who has disappeared after being bullied.
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English
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Alex is a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand or allow that. Isa is a dancer. She'd love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren't dead set against it...just like she's dead set against her daughter falling for a Latino. And Isa's privileged private-school life-with her dad losing his job and her older brother struggling with mental illness-is falling...
17) Labyrinth lost
Author
Series
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
Description
"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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Language
English
Description
YALSA 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2024 Texas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List
In this delightfully creepy and unapologetically queer horror romp of a graphic novel, sometimes dreams do come true. Nightmares are technically dreams, after all....
When college freshman Kat Fields receives a mysterious email urging her to visit a relatively unknown Texas town with a history
...19) The map of stars
Author
Series
York (Laura Ruby) volume 3
Language
English
Description
It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea what the photo they found in Greenwood Cemetery means,...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
Español
Description
In Meg Medina's compelling novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school—and must discover resources she never knew she had.
Una mañana antes de ir a clase, una chica le dice a Piddy Sánchez que Yaqui Delgado quiere darle una paliza. Piddy ni siquiera sabe quién es Yaqui, y mucho menos qué es lo que ha hecho para hacerla enfadar. Se dice que Yaqui piensa que Piddy es vanidosa, que se menea al caminar y que no
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