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Juanita Lucas is a young woman living in a housing project in Brooklyn. Although she has a very light complexion, she is proud of her blackness, even as she takes a beating from the very sistahs she tries so hard to emulate. Her only friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be young, gifted, and gay. Then a chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita’s and Scooter’s lives in ways they...
4) Nilda
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A young girl growing up in Spanish Harlem in the 1940's watches the secure world of her childhood years slowly erode away.
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A war is brewing among the different Houses, some of Sierra's shadowshapers are still in jail, and the House of Shadow and Light has been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, and even though one spy was exposed Sierra is not quite sure who she can trust--but the deal with Death made by one of her ancestors has given her power, and she will need to control it and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future.
8) Sweet 15
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Shortly before her fifteenth birthday, Destiny Lozada's traditional Puerto Rican mother and feminist older sister hijack her quinceañera, each pushing her own agenda and ignoring the possibility that Destiny, a skateboarding tomboy, might have her own ideas about the coming-of-age ritual she is about to participate in.
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"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left...
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It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
12) La formasombras
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When her summer plans are interrupted by supernatural phenomena, Sierra finds herself in a battle with the killer targeting her family of shadowshapers who believes she is hiding their greatest secret.
13) Shadowshaper
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Teen Sierra Santiago and her friend, a fellow artist named Robbie, discover that someone is murdering the shadowshapers--ancestral spirits who inhabit music and art--in their Latino neighborhood in Brooklyn.
14) La formasombras
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Teen Sierra Santiago and her friend, a fellow artist named Robbie, discover that someone is murdering the shadowshapers--ancestral spirits who inhabit music and art--in their Latino neighborhood in Brooklyn.
15) Grandma's gift
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Books with a Sprinkle of Spanish
Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
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The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
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Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
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Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
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"When Miguel and his parents move from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland, Miguel misses their home, his grandparents, and his pet frog, Coquí, but he soon realizes that New York City has more in common with back home than he originally thought"--
17) Undercover BMX
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Star basketball player Devon is frustrated with the rigorous schedule of his team and his father's unrealistically high expectations. One day, he sees a classmate doing tricks on a BMX bike and immediately wants to try. He then must find a way to keep his newfound passion a secret.
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"Tia Lugo, an asthmatic thirteen-year-old Puerto Rican girl living in NYC, witnesses a murder late one night from her bedroom window. Terrified the killer will do anything to keep her silent and desperate to find the courage to speak out, Tia turns to her grandmother's favorite shopping spot: the botanica."--Provided by publisher.
20) Shadowhouse fall
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Sierra and her friends are happy to live as shadowshapers, but a new beast called the Hound of Light will give them a run for their money. Sierra and her African and Latin American friends continue to face paranormal monsters as well as the beasts of prejudice and racism that run rampant on the streets of Brooklyn and in the hallways of their high school.