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| Title: |
Accidental Love
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| Author: |
Gary Soto |
| Summary: |
Despite their differences, tough 14-year-old Marissa falls for unlikely nerd Rene. |
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| Title: |
Before We Were Free
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| Author: |
Julia Alvarez |
| Summary: |
Anita, a girl growing up in the Dominican Republic, discovers that her family is involved in a plot to assassinate the dictator, General Trujilo. |
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| Title: |
Behind the Eyes
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| Author: |
Francisco X. Stork |
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Sixteen-year-old Hector is sent away to a "last chance" reform school after challenging the gang leader who killed his brother. |
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| Title: |
Behind the Mountains
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| Author: |
Edwidge Danticat |
| Summary: |
Celiane travels from Haiti to Brooklyn in order to find her missing father and start a new life with her family. |
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| Title: |
Bless Me, Ultima
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| Author: |
Rudolfo Anaya |
| Summary: |
The curandera (Mayan natural healer), Ultima, helps a young boy, Tony Marez, find his own identity within the conflicting cultural and religious forces of their rural New Mexico community. |
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| Title: |
Chasing the Jaguar
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| Author: |
Michele Dominguez Greene |
| Summary: |
Martika's strange dreams about a jaguar and a young girl's kidnapping unsettle her as she gets ready for her quinceañera. |
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| Title: |
Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box
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| Author: |
Juan Felipe Herrera |
| Summary: |
When Yolanda's uncle is fatally injured in the 9/11 attacks, she promises him she will help others in memory of those who died, but she quickly finds that staying away from the street culture harder than she thought it would be. |
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| Title: |
Crazy Loco: Stories
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| Author: |
David Rice |
| Summary: |
A collection of nine stories about growing up Mexican American in South Texas. |
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| Title: |
Drift
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| Author: |
Manuel Luiz Martinez |
| Summary: |
After getting kicked out of the public school, sixteen-year-old Robert Lomos lives with his grandmother and attends a private Christian school, but he's working hard to save money for a trip to L.A. where he hopes to reunite with his mother and little brother. |
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| Title: |
Esperanza Rising
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| Author: |
Pam Muñoz Ryan |
| Summary: |
When her father is brutally murdered, 14-year-old Esperanza and her mother leave Mexico to work in a California migrant camp in the 1930s. |
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| Title: |
Estrella's Quinceañera
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| Author: |
Malin Alegría |
| Summary: |
Estrella wants nothing to do with the embarrassing quinceañera that her mother has planned for her, especially since she's concentrating on making friends at her new school, avoiding her old friends, and secretly seeing her forbidden boyfriend whenever she can. |
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| Title: |
Finding Our Way
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| Author: |
René Saldaña |
| Summary: |
A collection of short stories in which Hispanic students navigate their way through different situations, like being expelled from school, going to the prom, and dealing with the death of a friend. |
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| Title: |
Graffiti Girl
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| Author: |
Kelly Parra |
| Summary: |
After losing an art competition, Angel turns to graffiti art to express herself, but she is soon caught between rival crews in a turf war. |
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| Title: |
Heat
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| Author: |
Mike Lupica |
| Summary: |
Michael is benched from his position as star pitcher on his Little League baseball team when opposing teams accuse him of being too old, and his father's recent death means he has no parent to prove he's only twelve years old. |
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| Title: |
Honey Blonde Chica
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| Author: |
Michele Serros |
| Summary: |
Evie Gomez doesn't know whether to stick with the laid back Mexican American clique at her prep school or dye her hair blond and join the racier Sangros. |
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| Title: |
La Línea
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| Author: |
Ann Jaramillo |
| Summary: |
Fifteen-year-old Miguel undertakes the dangerous illegal crossing from Mexico into the United States to join his parents, not knowing his sister has followed him. |
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| Title: |
Lorraine López
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| Author: |
Call Me Henri |
| Summary: |
Although Enrique grows up in the violent world of the barrio and faces tough challenges at home and at school, he pushes himself at school in hopes of living someday in the "other America" he sees in the movies. |
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| Title: |
Prizefighter en Mi Casa
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| Author: |
E. E. Charlton-Trujillo |
| Summary: |
Chula's epilepsy messes up her life in a Texas town, but things get scarier when her father invites his old friend El Jefe up from Mexico for an illegal prizefight in a desperate bid to save the family from poverty. |
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| Title: |
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
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| Author: |
Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
| Summary: |
It's 1969 and love has struck the barrio of Hollywood, New Mexico, amidst the background of poverty and the Vietnam War. |
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| Title: |
So Hard to Say
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| Author: |
Alex Sanchez |
| Summary: |
Xio and Frederick are best friends, but when Xio's intentions are more than friendly, Frederick has to figure out his feelings and confront the fact he may be gay. |
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| Title: |
Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico
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| Author: |
Malín Alegría |
| Summary: |
Crashing a party across the Mexican border teaches Sofi a few lessons about her heritage, her parents, and what sacrifices they made to immigrate to the United States. |
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| Title: |
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
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| Author: |
Francisco Jiménez |
| Summary: |
Whether Panchito's picking cotton, grapes, strawberries, or carrots, it's hard, backbreaking work and all he really wants is to stay in one place and go to the same school for awhile. |
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| Title: |
The Girl from Playa Blanca
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| Author: |
Ofelia Dumas Lachtman |
| Summary: |
Elena and her younger brother leave Mexico to reunite with their father in L.A., only to learn that he has disappeared without a trace. |
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| Title: |
The House on Mango Street
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| Author: |
Sandra Cisneros |
| Summary: |
Esperanza, age 15, describes the harsh realities of growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. |
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| Title: |
The Whole Sky Full of Stars
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| Author: |
René Saldaña |
| Summary: |
Alby urges his best friend Barry to compete in local boxing matches. When Barry wins big money, Alby's ulterior motives threaten their friendship. |
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