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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
Author
Series
Max's lucha libre adventures volume 4
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After one last fight, the Guardian Angel will retire as the most famous luchador but his nephew, eighth-grader Maximilian, hopes to one day take over his name and his mask.
428) Mexican
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Looking at a map of Mexico, it is easy to notice that it has varied topography-with mountains, valleys, deserts, and tropical forests all in one. These rapid changes in elevation result in varied climates throughout the entire country, which helps to create differing economies and lifestyles. Mexico is a biodiverse country, home to almost 30,000 species of plants-2,000 or so of which are edible.Due to the different climates, Mexico has various types...
431) The upside down boy
Author
Language
English
Description
The author recalls the year when his farm worker parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school for the first time.
432) Just Josefina
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In 1824 New Mexico, nine-year-old Josefina is happy when her grandparents and aunt come to visit, but she thinks she must choose between meeting her grandmother's expectations and being true to herself. Includes historical notes on women's rights in New Mexico in 1824 as well as a recipe for apple empanaditas.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Rogue Madden was a laughing man. He and his friends never seemed to take anything too seriously and could find laughter in most situations. After a wild poker party at his ranch house in Mexico, Rogue receives a telegram that a party of nine guests would be arriving that day and bringing the loveliest surprise. When the travelers arrive, there are plenty of surprises. First, they announce they have been robbed by bandits only a few miles from the...
436) Hear my voice: the testimonies of children detained at the southern border of the United States
Publisher
Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Este libro, una historia de niños contada por niños, no fue fácil de contar o escuchar. Pero no es solo una historia sobre la crueldad y la negligencia de los adultos, sino que a fin de cuentas, es también la historia de la fuerza, valentía y esperancza de los niños.
In Spanish and in English, a first-person account of children's experiences in detention at the southern U.S. border. Every day, children in migration are detained at the US-Mexico...
437) 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.
438) Cesar Chavez
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Mexican American labor leader who worked to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers and to establish the United Farm Workers union.
439) Jos�e Trigo
Author
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Econ�omica
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
In this novel, the desperate life of railway workers in 20th Century Mexico is portrayed with great detail and empathy; labor battles, misery, the illusion of a concilliatory strike and the depth of betrayal. Through these pages Jos�e Trigo arises, a ghostly character that is more of a symbol than a protagonist, along with many characters who are victims of the Cristero calamity of the 1930s, a history of corruption within the union, and the nation's...
