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21) Falling short
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2025 Caudill Nominees
2025 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
BBD Hispanic Culture 2023
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2025 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
BBD Hispanic Culture 2023
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"Star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac's parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father's approval by earning a spot on the school's basketball team. But will their friendship and support for each other be enough to keep the two boys from falling short"--
22) Reaching out
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“This sequel to Breaking Through and The Circuit again brings to the forefront the daily trials of poor immigrant families . . . compelling and honest.”—School Library Journal
From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.
During his college years,...
From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.
During his college years,...
23) Trino's choice
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Frustrated by his poor financial situation and hoping to impress a smart girl, seventh grader Trino falls in with a bad crowd led by an older teen with a vicious streak.
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic & Latinx Voices
Hispanic Heritage 2023
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Hispanic & Latinx Voices
Hispanic Heritage 2023
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Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, at heart the boys are very similar.
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage Month (Youth)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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Hispanic Heritage Month (Youth)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabé, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000.
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Aristotle and Dante volume 1
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Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship -- the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
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Paola Santiago volume 3
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"Thirteen-year-old Paola Santiago must return to the void to rescue her best friend Dante and face her biggest foe yet: El Cucuy, the lord of nightmares"--
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Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, 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.
31) Warrior girl
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"A novel in verse about the joys and struggles of a Chicana girl who is a warrior for her name, her history, and her right to choose what she celebrates in life"--
35) Pedro & Daniel
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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.
37) Jumped in
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In the two years since his mother left him with his grandparents in Des Moines, Washington, Sam has avoided making friends and perfected the art of being a slacker, but being paired with a frightening new student for a slam poetry unit transforms his life.
38) When moon blooms
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As a child admires the moon, their mother imparts Mexican Indigenous wisdom of the moon's phases as they relate to our bodies and lives.
39) Ambassador
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Ambassador (William Alexander) volume 1
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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.
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