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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Milagro Beanfield War	John Treadwell Nichols	Joe Mondragon, thirty-six, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, who slammed his battered pickup to a stop one day, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into an arid patch of ground. Then, il…	OL103979W
Next to Mexico	Jennifer Nails	Outspoken, impulsive Lylice has skipped fifth grade, but she finds that getting along at Susan B. Anthony Middle School is more difficult than she expected, until she befriends another newcomer to th…	OL11921090W
La mariposa	Francisco Jiménez	Because he can only speak Spanish, Francisco, son of a migrant worker, has trouble when he begins first grade, but his fascination with the caterpillar in the classroom helps him begin to fit in	OL12318832W
The Chicanos in America 1540-1974	Richard A. Garcia	A chronological history of Mexican Americans from 1540 to 1974 including pertinent documents and bibliography.	OL13357733W
A gift from papá Diego =	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	When Little Diego gets a Superman outfit for his birthday, he hopes to fly across the border to Mexico to be with his grandfather whom he loves.	OL13476848W
Damas, dramas, and Ana Ruiz	Belinda Acosta	All Ana Ruiz wanted was to have a traditional quinceanera for her daughter, Carmen. She wanted a nice way to mark this milestone year in her daughter's life. But Carmen was not interested in celebrat…	OL13646920W
This War Called Love	Alejandro Murguía	From Mexico City to San Francisco's Mission District, nothing comes easy—in life or in love. Here is an unstereotypical view of a world as treacherous as it is tender, as hilarious as it is heartbrea…	OL13786226W
Stolen By the Sea	Anna Myers	In Galveston, Texas, a rich twelve-year-old girl and an orphaned fourteen-year-old boy work together to save themselves and others from the terrible hurricane of 1900.	OL14854144W
CrashBoomLove	Juan Felipe Herrera	After his father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of growing up as a Mexican American high school student.	OL14863173W
Laughing out loud, I fly	Juan Felipe Herrera	A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity.	OL14863191W
Cesar Chavez	Susan Zannos	A biography of the Mexican American who spent most of his life working to organize the migrant farm workers in California and was instrumental in the founding of the United Farm Workers union.	OL14866054W
Born in the gravy	Denys Cazet	A young Mexican American girl tells her father all the things she did on her first day in kindergarten.	OL15102185W
In this proud land	Bernard Wolf	Portrays the arduous life of a large Mexican American family, residents of the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, who migrate yearly to Minnesota to do farm work.	OL15162053W
Heart of Aztlan	Rudolfo A. Anaya	Publisher Comments: The Albuquerque barrio portrayed in this vivid novel of postwar New Mexico is a place where urban and rural, political and religious realities coexist, collide, and combine. The …	OL152075W
What can't wait	Ashley Hope Pérez	Marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood--and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college--smart, talented Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere w…	OL15443989W
El Coyote, the rebel	Luis Perez	A soldier at the age of eleven. An honorably discharged veteran at the age of thirteen. A miner, a cotton-picker, a shepherd, and a graduate of Hollywood High. Luis Perez lived an incredible life and…	OL15842558W
Barrio boy	Ernesto Galarza	The author recalls his childhood journey from revolution-torn Mexico to the California coast.	OL16022083W
Voices from the fields	S. Beth Atkin	Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.	OL16065842W
Let's read about-- César Chávez	Jerry Tello	A profile of César Chávez, the Mexican American union leader who fought to get migrant farm workers better wages.	OL1632503W
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that h…	OL16596099W