Alessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALEManushkin, Fran
Summary: Miss Winkle separates the class into teams and instructs them to build towers out of paper cups, and the group who builds the tallest tower wins--but they have very little success until Pedro has an idea about how it can be done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MANMickelson, Marcia Argueta
Summary: Following her mother's tragic death, seventeen-year-old Sarah takes on the role of caretaker to her grieving father and younger brother, which leaves little time and emotional energy for a relationship, but when a school project helps her rediscover her love of art, her perspective shifts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MICManushkin, Fran
Summary: Something in Miss Winkle's classroom smells really bad, and when the class bully declares that it must be the new boy, Pablo, Pedro steps in to defend him--but the class still needs to know what is causing the stench and dispose of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MANWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: "When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WOOBrooks, Nick
Summary: J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROAvila, Lorraine
Summary: "Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with José, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into her family's bruja tradition will happen soon. But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AVIde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Lucas compares his home life with the supposedly perfect lives of the other students at the private school he attends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DE LMcLemore, Anna-Marie
Summary: The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society--brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionable grandmother who couldn't care less about which fork goes where. But their grandmother also knows the standards that two Latina young ladies will be held to, so she secures them two coveted places at the Alarie House, a prominent finishing school that turns out first ladies, princesses, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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Summary: Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARGreen, D. L. (Debra L.)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kaitlyn Perez is a very professional and well organized babysitter, but suddenly she finds herself in competition with a boy and the only thing she knows about him is that his nickname is Doc, he lets the kids he is babysitting run wild, and he is probably in her class--and that is only the beginning, as the stress causes her to quarrel with both her best friend, Piper, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BABGonzalez, Christina Diaz
Summary: Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? There's George: the brain Sara: the loner Dayara: the tough kid Nico: the rich kid And Miguel: the athlete And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their school's community service hours. Although they're sure they have nothing in common with one another, some people see them as all the same... just five Spanish-speaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: Desmond and Andres attend a school dance at Kersville Elementary that is complicated by reluctant dancers, over-loud music, teacher supervision, and ghouls on the dance floor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2020
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Summary: Izzy Crawford's family has been selected for a new home by Habitat for Humanity, near where the very attractive Sam lives, but just when her neighbor and best friend needs her most.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PADZaczek, Alyssa
Summary: Seventh-grader Martin McLean has trouble expressing himself except at Mathletes competitions and, now, as a female impersonator but his first-ever drag show falls on the same night as an important Mathletes tournament.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZACMason, Jane B.
Summary: Most of the sixth graders at Memorial Middle School are all a-flutter about the beginning-of-the-school-year, boy-girl party, but not Lucia, who is put off by all the talk about what to wear, and who to date--however, when she gets to know Adesh (the boy who sits on her favorite bench in the park), she starts thinking that there might be something to this dating thing after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JUNTorres, Jennifer
Summary: Peace-loving David gets caught in the middle of a war for playground domination when his neighbors--the Romero Twins and the Benitez Triplets--bring on the pranks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE TORDoerrfeld, Cori
Summary: "Cici, a young fairy, is only joking when she uses her powers to play a trick on the popular girl at school. But the changes Cici made to her classmate will last forever if she doesn't learn to see the best in people"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2016
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Emilia, secretly a dedicated gamer, competes with her elite team in a major tournament at the same time she and her best friend are running for class president and vice president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Book 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEDMedina, Meg.
Summary: Informed that a bully she does not know is determined to beat her up Latin American teen Piddy Sanchez struggles to learn more about the father she has never met, until the bully's gang forces her to confront more difficult challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEDDominguez, Angels
Summary: When her class is assigned a project where each student must speak on their favorite subject, Stella Diaz, who sometimes lapses into Spanish and pronounces words wrong, must overcome her fear of public speaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DOMVargas, Mel Valentine
Summary: It's the beginning of sophomore year, and Piedad "Piddy" Sanchez is having a hard time adjusting to her new high school. Things don't get any easier when Piddy learns that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn't even know who Yaqui is' never mind what she's done to piss her off. Rumor has it that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023