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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A moving middle-grade mystery about a boy dealing with long-repressed memories of his father as he learns about his Mexican and Haitian heritage while spying on a mysterious stranger during the first weeks of COVID lockdown.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
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Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
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"Curses aren't real. At least, that's what twelve-year-old, part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kama�ehu thinks when she listens to her grandmother's folktales about sacred flowers and family guardians. Anna's friends back home in Colorado don't believe in legends, either. They're more interested in science and sports-real, tangible things that stand in total contrast to Anna's family's embarrassing stories. So when Anna goes back to Hawai�i to visit her...
Author
Publisher
Camcat Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Christmas Miller is looking forward to a summer of sunbathing and waterskiing at her home in Sweet Lake with Lexi, the one friend who gets her completely, ADHD and all. But the day of Lexi's arrival, the girls have an almost-argument and worse, that night, they discover another friend, Lemy, floating face down in the lake. Though reeling from her rift with Lexi, Christmas is determined to find out who attacked Lemy, even if it means...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. But for now, she’s trapped in her impoverished village in southern China, practicing an illegal form of alchemy to keep food on the table—resurrecting the dead, for a price. When Zilan finally has the chance to complete her imperial exams, she ventures to the capital to compete against...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys, no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them that they were perpetually shouting across, one that she longed to close. But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Como miembro no oficial de su tribu nativa americana, Daunis Fontaine nunca acab�o de encajar. Sue�na con dejar su pasado atr�as y estudiar medicina, pero las circunstancias la llevan a tomarse un a�no para cuidar de su fr�agil madre en la reserva ojibwe. All�i conoce a Jamie, pero es un chico que oculta algo. Y entonces Daunis presencia un asesinato, y descubre que una droga letal amenaza a su comunidad. Ella conf�ia en que sus conocimientos...
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