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TITLE: Cemetery Boys
AUTHOR: Aiden Thomas CALL NUMBER: F Tho - FANTASY SUMMARY: Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family. |
TITLE: Barely Missing Everything
AUTHOR: Matt Méndez CALL NUMBER: F Mén - NOVELS SUMMARY: Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter. |
TITLE: They Both Die at the End
AUTHOR: Adam Silvera WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sil - NOVELS SUMMARY: In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day. |
TITLE: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings, a Memoir
AUTHOR: Margarita Engle WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Eng SUMMARY: In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up in two cultures during a time of cold hostility between nations. |
TITLE: The Poet X
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother's religion and her own relationship to the world. |
TITLE: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
AUTHOR: Erika L. Sánchez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F San - NOVELS SUMMARY: When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed. |
TITLE: The House on Mango Street
AUTHOR: Sandra Cisneros WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cis - NOVELS SUMMARY: A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends. |
TITLE: Shadowshaper
AUTHOR: Daniel José Older WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Old - FANTASY SUMMARY: When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends. |
TITLE: Clap When You Land
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices. |
TITLE: The Education of Margot Sanchez
AUTHOR: Lilliam Rivera WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Riv - NOVELS SUMMARY: Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood. |
TITLE: Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
AUTHOR: Isabel Quintero WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Qui - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, her friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity. |
TITLE: The Book of Unknown Americans
AUTHOR: Cristina Henríquez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hen - NOVELS SUMMARY: Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy. |
TITLE: One Hundred Years of Solitude
AUTHOR: Gabriel García Márquez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gar - CLASSICS SUMMARY: The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo as told through the history of the Buendía family. |
TITLE: Ball Don't Lie
AUTHOR: Matt de la Peña WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Peñ - NOVELS SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers-including his own past-that threaten his dream. |
TITLE: With the Fire on High
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef. |
TITLE: Out of Darkness
AUTHOR: Ashley Hope Pérez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pér - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people. |
TITLE: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
AUTHOR: Benjamin Alire Sáenz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sáe - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before. |
TITLE: Under the Mesquite
AUTHOR: Guadalupe Garcia McCall WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McC - NOVELS SUMMARY: Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. Includes glossary of Spanish terms. |
TITLE: We Were Here
AUTHOR: Matt de la Peña WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Peñ - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ordered to write in a journal while completing his sentence in a group home, Miguel expresses feelings that make others aware of the terrible living conditions he endured at home, providing valuable insight into why he suddenly felt the need to flee to Mexico to start a new life. |
TITLE: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
AUTHOR: Benjamin Alire Sáenz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sáe - NOVELS SUMMARY: Certain of his place in the loving Mexican American family he shares with his adoptive gay father, Sal begins questioning everything when his senior year arrives and he realizes he wants to know more about his biological origins. |
TITLE: Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish
AUTHOR: Juan Felipe Herrera WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Her SUMMARY: A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity. |
TITLE: The Distance Between Us
AUTHOR: Reyna Grande WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Gra SUMMARY: Reyna Grande chronicles her life as an undocumented immigrant, from her border crossing at age nine, discussing her difficult relationship with her father, and other complications with her family during childhood. |
TITLE: Parrot in the Oven
AUTHOR: Victor Martinez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mar - NOVELS SUMMARY: Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle. |
TITLE: Mexican Whiteboy
AUTHOR: Matt de la Peña WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Peñ - NOVELS SUMMARY: As a child of a Mexican father and blonde, blue-eyed mother, Danny finds it difficult that everyone thinks they know who and what he is just by the color of his skin and so goes to spend time with his father in Mexico in the hopes of getting in touch with his roots and the person he believes himself to be. |