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63) Homestretch
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 18
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Junie B. thinks first grade is a flop when her kindergarten friend Lucille prefers the company of twins Camille and Chenille and Junie B. needs glasses.
65) Mud soup
Author
Language
English
Description
Josh tries to avoid eating the "mud soup" prepared by Rosa's abuela (grandmother). Includes a recipe for black bean soup.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mar�ia Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Mal�u) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.
As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her traditional Mexican-American mom and dad have different plans. Xander Amaro Is a new hire at Nacho's. For him, the job is an opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Loosely based on the artist's childhood in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this graphic novel centers on Carlos Gomez and his family--the only Mexican family in their Midwestern town. When invited to participate in a talent competition at an upcoming RV show, Carlos decides to join the BMX stunt team and show his special flair. What could possibly go wrong? This graphic novel encompasses the intersectionality of LatinX, LGBTQ, and disability"--From the...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After losing his fortune, Ben Whitney retreats to the King of Spain Rancho, an old Spanish land grant near Salinas, California, in search of peace. He finds that peace is for those who have the courage to take it at the point of a gun"--
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In 1826, strange occurrences on eleven-year-old Josefina's New Mexican "rancho" lead the young healer to wonder if old legends of lost treasure and the wandering ghost called La Llorona may be true. Includes a Spanish glossary and historical background information.
78) The living
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
An epistolary novel set in the 1850s, in which thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan, moves with her guardians to San Francisco, where she begins teaching two "Mexicano" children English, befriends a boy searching for gold, and finds herself face-to-face with her influential mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters are excited when energetic young Aunt Dolores arrives at the rancho, bringing new ideas, new fashions, and new challenges, but they worry the changes will make them forget Mam�a, especially as Christmas approaches.
