Ramos, Vanessa

Summary: Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED RAM

Oviedo, Claudia

Summary: Told through diary entries during World War II, eleven-year-old Valentina helps her family navigate wartime changes and contributes to the war effort on the home front for a country she is not so sure accepts Mexican American families like her own.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Captstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OVI

Rivera, Adriana Erin

Summary: Told through diary entries, twelve-year-old Paloma and her family must navigate changes they cannot control and hope for a better future when United States soldiers invade Spanish controlled Puerto Rico in 1898.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RIV

Smith-Llera, Danielle

Summary: In 1493, eleven-year-old Cocuyo endeavors to find her place within the Taíno community on the island of Quisqueya, but when Europeans arrive bringing the threat of invasion, disease, and enslavement, she is determined to help preserve the culture she loves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI