Catalog Search Results
62) The skirt
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The skirt is gone, Miata is scared and upset. She brought her folklórico skirt to show off at the school and left it on the bus. It's not just any skirt. This skirt belonged to Miata's mother when she was a child in Mexico. On Sunday Miata and her dance group are going to dance folklórico.
65) The quiet place
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
70) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
71) Jesse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them excape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
72) Breaking through
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jime;nez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sister not only struggle to keep their family together, but also face crushing...
Author
Series
Stella Diaz volume 5
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Angela Dominguez, the fifth and final novel about Stella Diaz, a Mexican-American girl who is now ready to be at top of her school-fifth grade! Stella is getting ready for her next big step. This year, she's a fifth grader, which means she's not only one of the big kids in her elementary school, but she'll also have to start thinking about middle school. GULP! Luckily, Stella can count on her best friends Jenny and Stanley...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Batavia Public Library Wonderbooks - YOUTH
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
Wonderbooks!
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
Wonderbooks!
Formats
Description
Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beto won't wear a guayabera to the wedding. Nope! Nunca! Not going to happen! Beto tries his best to rid himself of the traditional Mexican wedding shirt his Mami gave him. He even gets help from his dog Lupe, but the shirt ends up back on his bed each time with notes from Mami, who becomes increasingly frustrated with Beto. Mami insists that Beto attend the wedding, and wear the shirt, because--after all--it's her wedding! Beto has to accept the...
78) Indivisible
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1951 Alba, New Mexico, when her father forbids her from pursuing her dream of performing Mexican ballads as a "corridisto" and participating on the picket line because she is a girl, twelve-year-old Ana Maria finds a way to help during the long strike for better working and living conditions for the miners at Empire Zinc.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request