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Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taqueria and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by immigration police.
10) Echoes of Grace
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On the Texas-Mexico border, eighteen-year-old Grace's relationship with her older sister Mercy is fractured when Mercy's two-year-old son dies in an accident, bringing to the surface old family traumas and literal ghosts as the family struggles to heal.
11) Into the light
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Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
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A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1994.
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A novel of a young girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Her neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her.
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Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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In 1836 Wisconsin, Catalina's determination to keep her family alive is tested when a bark-covered man abducts her brother, prompting her to delve into a world of strange beasts and tormented spirits as she uncovers the deep-rooted connection between herfate and the Man of Sap.
15) The hunted
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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After surviving the earthquake and tsunami, Shy manages to make it back to land, but he's far from safe because a secret his cruise ship coworker Addie shared with him is one that people have killed for, and now that Shy knows, he's become a moving target.
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When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
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Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't life threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life. Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2009
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A novel of about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago, a neighborhood of harsh realities and harsh beauty.
Elogiado por la cr?tica, admirado por lectores de todas las edades, en escuelas y universidades de todo el pa?s y traducido a una multitud de idiomas, La casa en Mango Street es la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a trav?s de una serie de vi?etas ?a veces desgarradoras, a veces profundamente alegres?...
20) Indivisible
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. The worry that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico always lingered in the back of their minds, even though Ma and Pa have been in the United States for a long time, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that...
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