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She persistedPfeffer, Susan Beth
Summary: After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphia 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PFEPleneros de la 21 (Musical group)
Contents: Angelito = Little angel : bomba gracimá/son (4:56) -- Carmelina : plena tradicional (3:42) -- Baila, Julia Loíza = Dance, Julia Loíza : bomba gracimá/yubá/holandé (6:42) -- La plena de Paquito Cerniera = The plena of Paquito Cerniera : plena cangrejera (5:49) -- Patria borinqueña = Puerto Rican homeland : plena patriótica (5:12) -- Echando un pie = Shake a leg : bomba sicá/son (6:28) -- Isla...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN PLEJimenez, Claire
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIMWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCHHawthorne, Mike
Summary: "Mike Hawthorne's mother is left alone to raise her son in New York City, a city that torments them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike falls victim to an old world Santeria death curse, a haunting sign from the old country of something his mother could never truly escape --she begins a series of events that drive him away both physically and emotionally. For the first time ever,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HAWCowley, Joy.
Summary: Trouble ensues when Papa gets Miguel a turkey to fatten up for Thanksgiving and Miguel develops an attachment to it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COWCowley, Joy.
Summary: Trouble ensues when Papa gets Miguel a turkey to fatten up for Thanksgiving and Miguel develops an attachment to it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE COWMedina, Meg
Summary: This inspiring chapter book biography introduces readers to Pura Belpré who brought Spanish and bilingual storytelling and books to libraries across the country, giving Spanish speakers the opportunity to read and find community in ways they never had before.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BELDenise, Anika
Summary: "From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Maya Beatriz Montenegro Calderon has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, Ini, Mini, and Mo, aren't at school, you can usually find three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023