Martinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARGrande, Reyna
Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRAMercado, Yehudi
Summary: "In Yehudi Mercado's full-color middle grade graphic memoir sequel to Chunky, Hudi and his imaginary friend, Chunky, head to Jewish summer camp, where the dynamic duo meet a new friend who can see Chunky, too, and get mixed up in a prank war. This series is perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft. Hudi finally embraced his love of art and comedy, but his class clown antics keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Alfredo y su papá deben cruzar la frontera en un viaje difícil de México a los Estados Unidos. ¿Encontrarán el nuevo hogar que están buscando en el otro lado? Basándose en hechos reales, esta historia cobra vida gracias a la ilustradora Mexicana Claudia Navarro, y está repleta de notas al final del texto para iniciar conversaciones sobre inmigración.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 325 MILCorchado, Alfredo
Summary: When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. One was a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CORHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: Petra Peña, wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children, among them Petra and her family, have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HIGQuiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Contents: Starry Nights -- Faraway -- The Kaliman Maneuver -- Lessons from the fields -- Where the road doesn't lead -- Green eyes -- From harvest to Harvard -- In the land of giants -- Question the rules, when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUIANONES-HINOJOSA, ALFREDO QUIKemp, Laekan Zea
Summary: Corina's Abuela helps her select flowers that mean something to Corina from the garden for her Mexican flower crown that she will wear on her birthday, and explains the symbolic meaning of a birthday crown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KEMKemp, Laekan Zea
Summary: Set in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio and told in alternating voices, teenaged musicians Aarón and Mia grow close as they share and struggle to overcome the emotional pain of their troubled home lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEMAlegría, Malín.
Summary: Hoping to celebrate her quinceañera abroad instead of having a traditional party, Fabi clashes with a mean-spirited rival and resolves to put the girl and her squad of friends to shame with the biggest quince the town has ever seen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ALEHenzel, Cynthia Kennedy
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Mexican immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HENDominguez, Angela
Summary: When fifth-grader Stella Díaz considers going to a different school than her closest friends, sees her big brother Nick receiving mail from colleges far away, and is forced to work on a project with her former bully, she suddenly realizes growing up is not quite as fun as she first thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DOMDavis, Joshua
Summary: In 2004, four undocumented Mexican teenagers arrived at the national underwater robotics championship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever told Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they would amount to much -- until two inspiring high school science teachers convinced the boys to enter the competition. Up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.8 DAVMartin, Pedro
Summary: "Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAR (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Salazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALGonzales, Chuck
Summary: Carlos Gomez is a member of the only Mexican American family in town, so he's used to being the odd one out. A lisp, a penchant for girl glamor, and being picked on by the class bully don't help either. But now there's a talent show coming up, and Carlos is performing with the BMX stunt team. What could possibly go wrong?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GONCamper, Cathy
Summary: Lupe Impala, Elirio Malaria, and El Chavo Octopus are now the proud owners of their own garage--but when a series of earthquakes hit their town and Genie, their beloved cat, disappears they find themselves traveling to the realm of Mictlantecuhtli, Aztecgod of the Underworld, who is keeping Genie prisoner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CAMCisneros, Sandra.
Summary: The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CISFinnegan, Marco
Summary: In Southern California, during World War II, twin sisters Flaca and Cuata are harassed by soldiers stationed nearby, but a bigger problem arises when the lost member of an underground species, shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard, needs the sisters' help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 FINHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: "A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Higuera 2021Morales, Yuyi
Summary: "An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books, Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORCamper, Cathy
Summary: In this graphic novel prequel to the Lowriders books, Elirio is painting murals based on indigenous words, and a gang of bullies are harassing him--until he meets Lupe and Flapjack, and together they form their club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CAMSáenz, Benjamin Alire
Summary: "A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House 2017