Behar, Ruth
Summary: Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: Following her sister's disastrous quinceañera and her mother's sudden passing, sixteen-year-old Castillo strives to regain control of her life, but when she books a job to plan another quinceañera she finds her carefully devised plans unraveling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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Summary: Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father's increasing restrictions and his mother's fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never could've imagined -- a month working on a ranch in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUEMedina, Meg
Summary: For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MEDEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Cuando visitamos a abuelo, lo ayudo a vender frutas, pregonando los nombres de cada una mientras caminamos: nuestros pasos repican como tambores, nuestras manos, cual maracas, agitan las brillantes siluetas de las frutas mientras cantamos...con ritmo 'Mango limón coco melón naranja toronja plátano piña' ...Vivo lejos de abuelo, pero podemos cantar rimas de ida y vuelta entre nuestros dos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, un sello editorial de la División Infantil de Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: "Papi, a calamity physicist, believes he has made a breakthrough that will let him close all the wormholes Sal and Gabi have made in the membrane between universes. But how will that affect Gabi's baby brother, Iggy, who needs to be connected to another universe in order to remain healthy? And what will it mean for Sal, who uses the holes to stay in touch with other versions of his Mami Muerta?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HERValdes Greenwood, David
Summary: "Luis just wants to go to prom with his boyfriend, but when a hit on the head knocks him back to 1985, he meets his parents' closeted classmate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2021
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Summary: Season by season, a young girl walks with her abuelo along the beach as he shares stories about his life in Havana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Summary: Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGBehar, Ruth
Summary: In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEHEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ENGJennings, Terry Catasús
Summary: Dom is excited to join her friend, Steph, for a mini vacation. They are going to visit Steph's grandmother in Virginia, where Dom hopes they can continue to have a lot of fun adventures. As soon as they arrive, they find that Gran's neighbors have lost their goat. There are some mysterious footprints near the goat pen that lead to the marsh. Dom decides to use the methods of her favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC JENAlonso, Nathalie
Summary: "Magaly enjoys the yummy Cuban food her Abuela has been cooking since arriving from Havana, but when Magaly's sweater goes missing, she discovers that Abuela is making ropa vieja for dinner. Old clothes for dinner? Yuck! Magaly needs to hide the rest of her clothes before her family eats them up. Endnotes feature other imaginative names of food around the world, facts about Cuba, Spanish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2024
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Summary: When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2022
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Summary: For Merci Suarez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MEDJennings, Terry Catasús
Summary: "Dom is excited to join her friend, Steph, for a mini vacation. They are going to visit Steph's grandmother....As soon as they arrive, they find that Gran's neighbors have lost their goat! There are some mysterious footprints near the goat pen that lead to the marsh. Dom decides to use the methods of her favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes-observing the basics, using all her senses, and talking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JENHernandez, Carlos Alberto
Summary: "When Sal Vidnon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that, somehow, Sal planted a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HERParra, Jessica
Summary: As seventeen-year-old Rubi secretly juggles participating in a baking competition, improving her grades for college admission, and a newfound romance, she soon realizes she must learn how to manage her family's expectations while finding her own path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PARMontalban, Vanessa
Summary: "In contemporary Miami, twins Delfi and Lela are haunted by a family curse that poisons any chance at romantic love. It's no wonder their mother forbids them from getting involved with magic. When Lela and Delfi receive premonitions of a mysterious killer targeting brujas, however, the sisters must embrace their emerging powers to save innocent lives. Teaming up with their best friend Ethan and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MONCuevas, Adrianna
Summary: In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CUEOlder, Daniel José
Summary: Simultaneous battles rage in the Caribbean and Brooklyn as sixteen-year-olds Mateo and Chela, two gods-turned-teenagers, try to get to the bottom of what is keeping them apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLDNamey, Laura Taylor
Summary: Cuban American teenagers Clary, seventeen, and Emilio, eighteen, grew up together in the Echo Park community of Los Angeles clashing over their visions for the future of the neighborhood, but they find there is something stronger than local history tying them together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024