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The Milagro Beanfield War
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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… |
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Any Small Goodness
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Tony Johnston |
Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even start… |
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Ask For Me Tomorrow
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Margaret Millar |
Gilda Decker needs a new bag, what with her second husband being suddenly crippled and her ex-husband hiding himself and his money somewhere in the hinterlands of Mexico. Gilda's recently retained la… |
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Downtown boy
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Juan Felipe Herrera |
From June of 1958 to June of 1959, Juanito tries to stay out of mischief and be good as he, his mother, and his father move around the state of California, never quite feeling at home. |
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Grandma and Me at the flea =
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Juan Felipe Herrera |
Juanito accompanies his grandmother to a flea market in southern California, where he helps her and the other vendors and where they enjoy seeing old friends from their Mexican-American community. |
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Muchacho
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LouAnne Johnson |
An inspiring YA debut from the author of Dangerous Minds.Eddie Corazon is angry. He's also very smart. But he's working pretty hard at being a juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, even though he… |
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Born in the gravy
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Denys Cazet |
A young Mexican American girl tells her father all the things she did on her first day in kindergarten. |
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What can't wait
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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… |
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This is Espie Sanchez
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Terry Dunnahoo |
A fifteen-year-old Explorer Scout's sense of danger is aroused by the boyfriend of a teenager she meets while helping at the police station screening calls. |
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Béisbol en abril y otras historias
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Gary Soto |
A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. |
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The twins' blanket
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Hyewon Yum |
Two Mexican american twin girls, who have always shared everything, sleep in separate beds with their own blankets for the first time. |
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Summer of the mariposas
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Guadalupe Garcia McCall |
In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded… |
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Ambassador
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William Alexander |
Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in… |
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Night of the chupacabras
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Marie G. Lee |
When Mi-Sun and her younger brother spend the summer in Mexico with their friend Lupe, they become convinced that there is a mysterious vampire-like monster killing Tío Héctor's goats. |
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Maria paints the hills
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Pat Mora |
Maria and her mother experience daily life in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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So Far from God
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Ana Castillo |
Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, though, it stands wondrously revealed as a place of marvels, teeming with life and with all manner of collisio… |
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Senderos fronterizos
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Francisco Jimenez |
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education. |
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El loro en el horno
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Amalia Bermejo,Victor Martinez |
Manny cuenta sus experiencias como miembro de una pobre familia mexicana, en la que el padre alcohólico sólo les trae problemas. Habla de la forma en que, dentro de la cultura americana, se desenvue… |
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Dream things true
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Marie Marquardt |
Evan and Alma have spent fifteen years living in the same town, connected in a dozen different ways but also living worlds apart -- until the day he jumps into her dad's truck and slams on the brakes… |
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Tonio's cat
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Mary Calhoun |
Toughy, the cat, begins to fill the emptiness which Tonio feels because he had to leave his dog in Mexico. Includes bilingual conversation. |
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