Alvarez, Julia

Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH ALV
Call number: YA 468 SPANISH

Gomera-Tavarez, Camille

Summary: A collection of interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora focuses on one extended family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOM

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACE

Maddox, Jake

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Caleb Parker has not been having much fun playing baseball recently, but when his mother volunteers to host Ricky Alvarez, a nineteen-year-old Dominican player on a local independent team in their Minnesota town, he finds a friend and mentor whose own struggles serve as an inspiration to the young Caleb.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAD

Gomera-Tavarez, Camille

Summary: Buenos Espíritus es una colección de once cuentos, interconectados con la diáspora dominicana, de la autora debut Camille Gomera-Tavarez. Es un libro centrado en una familia extensa, los Belén, a través de múltiples generaciones. Está ambientado en la pequeña ciudad ficticia de Hidalpa, y también en Santo Domingo, Paterson, San Juan y Washington Heights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH GOM