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Urrea, Luis Alberto.

Contents: "Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URR

Clement, Jennifer

Summary: Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLE

Bowles, David (David O.)

Summary: In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States. As a memento, she takes with her an ancient conch shell. In 1521, Calizto is trapped in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. He has fought valiantly for his people against Spanish invaders, but hope is fading. Desperate, he takes up a sacred conch and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury YA 2023

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

Berwin, Margot.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BER

Berwin, Margot.

Summary: When Lila stumbles across a strange laundromat, which houses a fern so valuable that a small piece of it is worth thousands of dollars, the owner offers her a cutting provided that she passes a test of growing a fire fern from a small cutting.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

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