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Efren dividido

Cisneros, Ernesto,


Translation of: Efren Divided . While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
Date Published:2023

Aristoteles y Dante se sumergen en las aguas del mundo

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire,


Translation of: Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World. High school seniors Aristotle and Dante find ways to spend time together despite being at different schools, having to keep their love secret, and nightly news of gay men dying from AIDS.
Date Published:2021

Indio no más

McManis, Charlene Willing, 1953-2018,


Translation of: Indian No More. In 1957, ten-year-old Regina Petit's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and forced to leave Oregon, but in Los Angeles her family faces prejudice and she struggles to understand her identity as an Indian far from tribal lands.
Date Published:2023

La tierra de las grullas

Salazar, Aida,


Translation of: Land of the Cranes . Translation of: Land of the cranes. Nine-year old Betita and her family fled Mexico for Los Angeles to escape the cartel wars in Mexico. When her beloved father is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico, Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind. Soon they too are detained in a family detention camp. Even while enduring the cruel and inhumane conditions of the camp, Betita discovers beauty in the poetry she creates and the community she and her mother find at the camp. As the days drag on, Betita begins to wonder if her family will ever be whole again.
Date Published:2021

Translation of: Land of the Cranes . Translation of: Land of the cranes. Nine-year old Betita and her family fled Mexico for Los Angeles to escape the cartel wars in Mexico. When her beloved father is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico, Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind. Soon they too are detained in a family detention camp. Even while enduring the cruel and inhumane conditions of the camp, Betita discovers beauty in the poetry she creates and the community she and her mother find at the camp. As the days drag on, Betita begins to wonder if her family will ever be whole again.

Date Published:2021

Un verano loco

Williams-Garcia, Rita,


Translation of: One Crazy Summer. The Spanish-language edition of the beloved Newbery Honor-winning novel about three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them, from award-winning author Rita Williams-Garcia! Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer. This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award finalist.
Date Published:2024

Translation of: One Crazy Summer. The Spanish-language edition of the beloved Newbery Honor-winning novel about three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them, from award-winning author Rita Williams-Garcia! Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer. This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award finalist.

Date Published:2024

Hija del guardián del fuego

Boulley, Angeline,


Translation of : Firekeeper's daughter. Como miembro no oficial de su tribu nativa americana, Daunis Fontaine nunca acabó de encajar. Sueña con dejar su pasado atrás y estudiar medicina, pero las circunstancias la llevan a tomarse un año para cuidar de su frágil madre en la reserva ojibwe. Allí conoce a Jamie, pero es un chico que oculta algo. Y entonces Daunis presencia un asesinato, y descubre que una droga letal amenaza a su comunidad. Ella confía en que sus conocimientos de química y medicina tradicional la ayuden a dar con el responsable, pero la búsqueda de la verdad es cruel: Daunis deberá aprender qué significa ser una mujer ojibwe fuerte y hasta dónde es capaz de arriesgar para proteger a su gente. Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation.She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she reluctantly agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source of a new drug.How far will she go to protect her community, if it threatens to tear apart the only world she's ever known?
Date Published:2022

Translation of : Firekeeper's daughter. Como miembro no oficial de su tribu nativa americana, Daunis Fontaine nunca acabó de encajar. Sueña con dejar su pasado atrás y estudiar medicina, pero las circunstancias la llevan a tomarse un año para cuidar de su frágil madre en la reserva ojibwe. Allí conoce a Jamie, pero es un chico que oculta algo. Y entonces Daunis presencia un asesinato, y descubre que una droga letal amenaza a su comunidad. Ella confía en que sus conocimientos de química y medicina tradicional la ayuden a dar con el responsable, pero la búsqueda de la verdad es cruel: Daunis deberá aprender qué significa ser una mujer ojibwe fuerte y hasta dónde es capaz de arriesgar para proteger a su gente. Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation.She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she reluctantly agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source of a new drug.How far will she go to protect her community, if it threatens to tear apart the only world she's ever known?

Date Published:2022

Land of broken promises

Kuo, Jane,


Publisher Annotation: Taiwanese immigrant Anna and her family make a shocking discovery that puts their American dreams at risk in this searing companion to In the Beautiful Country.
Date Published:2023

The distance between us

Grande, Reyna,


"Modified for a young audience." Booklist Starred Reviews, School Library Journal, Presents a middle-grade adaptation of the memoir of Reyna Grande about her childhood longing for her absent father, who left Mexico to find work in America to make a dream life for his family. She dreamed of his return, but things didn't work out like that--instead, Reyna found herself following him on her own dangerous journey from El Otro Lado to find him. Along the way, books and writing helped save her.
Date Published:2016

"Modified for a young audience." Booklist Starred Reviews, School Library Journal, Presents a middle-grade adaptation of the memoir of Reyna Grande about her childhood longing for her absent father, who left Mexico to find work in America to make a dream life for his family. She dreamed of his return, but things didn't work out like that--instead, Reyna found herself following him on her own dangerous journey from El Otro Lado to find him. Along the way, books and writing helped save her.

Date Published:2016

An Indigenous peoples' history of the United States

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-,


"Original text © 2014." This Land -- Follow the Corn -- Culture of Conquest -- Cult of the Covenant -- Bloody Footprints -- The Birth of a Nation -- The Last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson's White Republic -- Sea to Shining Sea -- "Indian Country" -- U.S. Triumphalism and Peacetime Colonialism -- Ghost Dance Prophecy : A Nation Is Coming -- The Doctrine of Discovery -- The Future of the United States. "The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples"--
Date Published:2022

"Original text © 2014." This Land -- Follow the Corn -- Culture of Conquest -- Cult of the Covenant -- Bloody Footprints -- The Birth of a Nation -- The Last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson's White Republic -- Sea to Shining Sea -- "Indian Country" -- U.S. Triumphalism and Peacetime Colonialism -- Ghost Dance Prophecy : A Nation Is Coming -- The Doctrine of Discovery -- The Future of the United States. "The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples"--

Date Published:2022

Land of the cranes

Salazar, Aida,


Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart.
Date Published:2020

Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart.

Date Published:2020

Internment

Ahmed, Samira,


"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
Date Published:2019

Ghost boys : the graphic novel /

Rhodes, Jewell Parker,


After being fatally shot by a police officer who mistook his toy gun for a real threat, twelve-year-old Jerome navigates the afterlife alongside the ghost of Emmett Till, confronting historical racism, his family's grief, and the moral struggle of the officer's daughter.
Date Published:2025

Parable of the sower : a graphic novel adaptation /

Butler, Octavia E.,


A young woman travels along the coast of California in order to escape scavengers and bandits in a post-apocalyptic world.
Date Published:2020

Kindred : a graphic novel adaptation /

Butler, Octavia E.,


The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope. "Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white - and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word"--
Date Published:2017

The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope. "Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white - and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word"--

Date Published:2017

Hope in the valley

Perkins, Mitali,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide Starred, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Starting middle school brings inevitable change to the mixed-up life of Pandita Paul, who lost her mother a few years ago and doesn't like feeling like becoming a teenager means leaving memories of her mother behind. After falling out with her best friend, Pandita begins spending all her time in the abandoned mansion across the street, where she loved sneaking in to read and write with her mother. The mansion, though, is disintegrating and slated for destruction to be replaced by what is being billed as affordable housing. Pandita must use her words, find her voice, to fight for her community and embrace the change.
Date Published:2023

Booklist, Horn Book Guide Starred, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Starting middle school brings inevitable change to the mixed-up life of Pandita Paul, who lost her mother a few years ago and doesn't like feeling like becoming a teenager means leaving memories of her mother behind. After falling out with her best friend, Pandita begins spending all her time in the abandoned mansion across the street, where she loved sneaking in to read and write with her mother. The mansion, though, is disintegrating and slated for destruction to be replaced by what is being billed as affordable housing. Pandita must use her words, find her voice, to fight for her community and embrace the change.

Date Published:2023

You are here : connecting flights /


Paul : something to declare / Christina Soontornvat -- Jae : ground rules / Linda Sue Park -- Mindy : standing up / Meredith Ireland -- Lee : jam session / Mike Chen -- Ari : guidelines / Susan Tan -- AH : a kind of noble / Randy Ribay -- Natalie : costumes / Traci Chee -- Henry : grounded / Mike Jung -- Camilla : big day suitcase / Erin Entrada Kelly -- Jane : questions and answers / Grace Lin -- Khoi : lost in translation / Minh Lê -- Soojin : you are here / Ellen Oh. Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, An incident with the TSA in an overcrowded Chicago airport brings twelve Asian American teens and young adults--hitherto strangers to each other--together. As their journeys intertwine, these twelve Asian Americans learn new challenges of friendship, of being younger siblings, how powerful words really are, and, in the end, how significant a blue Stratocaster electric guitar really can be.
Date Published:2023

Paul : something to declare / Christina Soontornvat -- Jae : ground rules / Linda Sue Park -- Mindy : standing up / Meredith Ireland -- Lee : jam session / Mike Chen -- Ari : guidelines / Susan Tan -- AH : a kind of noble / Randy Ribay -- Natalie : costumes / Traci Chee -- Henry : grounded / Mike Jung -- Camilla : big day suitcase / Erin Entrada Kelly -- Jane : questions and answers / Grace Lin -- Khoi : lost in translation / Minh Lê -- Soojin : you are here / Ellen Oh. Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, An incident with the TSA in an overcrowded Chicago airport brings twelve Asian American teens and young adults--hitherto strangers to each other--together. As their journeys intertwine, these twelve Asian Americans learn new challenges of friendship, of being younger siblings, how powerful words really are, and, in the end, how significant a blue Stratocaster electric guitar really can be.

Date Published:2023

In the beautiful country

Kuo, Jane,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
Date Published:2022

One piece 34-36 : Water seven.

Oda, Eiichiro, 1975-,


Printed Manga-style: book opens from left to right. Pages are read right to left. Translated from the Japanese. Originally published: Tokyo : Shueisha, 1997. Cover title. Vol. 34. The city of water, water seven -- Vol. 35. Captain -- Vol 36. The ninth justice. Armed with the ability to stretch like rubber, Luffy and his crew fight to save their lives and their ship. But when their newest member, Nico Robin, is blamed for an assassination attempt against the town's major, Luffy wonders if his group has been infiltrated by the enemy.
Date Published:2015

Printed Manga-style: book opens from left to right. Pages are read right to left. Translated from the Japanese. Originally published: Tokyo : Shueisha, 1997. Cover title. Vol. 34. The city of water, water seven -- Vol. 35. Captain -- Vol 36. The ninth justice. Armed with the ability to stretch like rubber, Luffy and his crew fight to save their lives and their ship. But when their newest member, Nico Robin, is blamed for an assassination attempt against the town's major, Luffy wonders if his group has been infiltrated by the enemy.

Date Published:2015

Naruto 37-39

Kishimoto, Masashi, 1974-,


Printed Manga-style: book opens from left to right. Pages are read from right to left. Originally published: Tokyo : Shueisha, Inc. Translated from the Japanese. Shikamaru's battle -- Practice makes perfect -- On the move. In these three volumes of "Naruto," the ninja divide over whether or not to help Shikamaru's team get revenge for the murder of their mentor. The Akatsuki organization takes advantage of the dissension in the ninja to attack the Tailed Beasts and their ninja hosts, including Naruto.
Date Published:2016

Printed Manga-style: book opens from left to right. Pages are read from right to left. Originally published: Tokyo : Shueisha, Inc. Translated from the Japanese. Shikamaru's battle -- Practice makes perfect -- On the move. In these three volumes of "Naruto," the ninja divide over whether or not to help Shikamaru's team get revenge for the murder of their mentor. The Akatsuki organization takes advantage of the dissension in the ninja to attack the Tailed Beasts and their ninja hosts, including Naruto.

Date Published:2016

To all the boys I've loved before : the graphic novel /

Perez Marquez, Barbara,


Junior Library Guild. "Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent"-- Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2026