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"When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking...
4) Light of day
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When high school senior Gabby learns that men are drugging girls and forcing them into prostitution, she fights back using the popular radio show she hosts and captures the attention of X, a mysterious gang member determined to get pimps off the streets of Miami, who, in turn, captures her heart.
5) Run the risk
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When Mateo chose gang life over her, Grace moved on. Years have passed. Now her younger brother Alex is drawn to a life on the streets. When Mateo suddenly resurfaces, insisting he's left gang life behind him, Grace believes he could be the one to reach Alex and pull him away from the edge. She tells herself she's only talking to Mateo again because of Alex, but her feelings quickly return. Is saving her brother worth risking a broken heart?
11) Pedrito's day
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When Pedrito replaces, from his own earnings, money he has lost, his mother decides that he is finally big enough for some of his father's earnings to be used towards buying him a bicycle.
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"Yadriel ha invocado a un espíritu y ahora no puede librarse de él. En el mundo de Yadriel, los nahualos liberan espíritus y las nahualas tienen la capacidad de sanar. Cuando su familia latina se muestra reticente a aceptar su identidad, Yadriel decide demostrarles que es un auténtico nahualo. Con la ayuda de su prima Maritza, realiza su ceremonia de quince años e invoca a su primer espíritu. Pero el espíritu resulta ser Julián Díaz,...
14) Oye, Celia!
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Picture Book Biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month
Picture Book Musician Bios Summer Challenge 2018 Music
Picture Books for Black History Month
Rocking and Rolling Picture Book Biographies
Picture Book Musician Bios Summer Challenge 2018 Music
Picture Books for Black History Month
Rocking and Rolling Picture Book Biographies
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Illustrations and rhythmic text celebrate the life and music of singer Celia Cruz, as a young fan attends a neighborhood dance party and hears loss, happiness, Latin American culture, and more in her voice and lyrics. Includes translations of Spanish words used.
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Pepe, who is Mexican American, enjoys participating in a festival celebrating his heritage and that of his family and friends, who are from Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and many other countries. Includes author's note about Hispanic American History month and the difference between the terms Hispanic and Latino.
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"For fans of Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Lesley Nneka Arimah, a darkly funny and imaginative debut conjuring tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits. "The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria." From former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Marytza K. Rubio comes Maria, Maria, an inimitable collection set across the tropics and megacities of the Americas. Readers will be enticed and infuriated as characters...