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1) Long shot
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pedro, an avid basketball player, decides to run for class president, challenging a teammate who is also one of the most popular boys in school.
Author
Language
English
Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
4) Ambassador
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force causing multiple mass extinctions.
5) The last 8
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight teenagers struggle to survive after an alien attack.
After an alien attack devastates the Earth, pilot and future astronaut Clover Martinez bands with seven other teens in a struggle to survive.
7) A day's work
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
9) Tumble
Author
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
10) The Insiders
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Héctor Muñoz, fleeing from bullies, discovers a magical closet that not only provides him sanctuary, but also unites him with two other kids facing similar problems at their own schools, helping them find friendship and strength in each other.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
13) Pedro & Daniel
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in 1970s Ohio, Mexican American brothers Pedro and Daniel, who are not like other boys, manage an abusive home life, school, coming out, first loves, first jobs, and the AIDS epidemic, leaning on each other always and forever.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Mexican-American first-grader experiences the difficulties and pleasures of being different when she wears a tulip costume with all the colors of the rainbow for the school May Day parade.
17) The afterlife
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
161 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.
18) Tia's tamales
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
One snowy day, Luz's grandmother teaches her how to make tamales while telling her the story of how Luz's great-grandfather was taught by his aunt. Includes recipe for tamales.
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