Alvarez, Julia.

Summary: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Dragonfly Books 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ALV

Randall, Julian

Summary: While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha--who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillato--twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life and where her cousin is being held captive in a sinister magical prison, and Pilar must defeat the Dominican bogeyman if she hopes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RAN

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RAN

Fernández, Kelly

Summary: "Set at a magical school for girls, a funny and heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel adventure about friendship, defying expectations, and finding your place. Manu is always getting into trouble. The headmistress at school believes Manu has the potential to help people with her magic, but Manu would rather have fun than fit in. The other students claim she's secretly a demon and that she was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FER

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

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

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

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

Alberto, José

Contents: CD 1. Hay un runrún ; Con la espuela (feat. Edwin Bonilla) ; Mi son oriental (feat. Oscar D'León) ; El lunar ; Pensamiento (feat. Ismael Miranda) ; El que usted conoce no soy yo (feat. Eduardo Bringuez) ; Metiste la pata (feat. Aymee Nuviola) ; No quiero llanto ; Su señoria la conga -- CD 2. Baja y tapa la olla (feat. Andy Montañez) ; Sabroso ; Rita la caimana (feat. Estrellas de la Charanga) ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Los Canarios 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ALB

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

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

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

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACE

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

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