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Eighteen-year-old Alberto works hard to help send money back to family in Mexico, support his sister and her baby, and study for the high school equivalency tests. High school senior Grace is set to be valedictorian and is on her way to attending the college of her dreams, but she has been questioning everything since her parents' divorce. When Alberto and Grace meet, they feel an immediate connection, but then Alberto becomes a suspect in a terrible...
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Santa Barbara, California. Raised by her strict Mexican grandma, Ri Fernández has never been allowed to learn Spanish. She has always been pushed away from the neighborhood they call home and toward her best friend's world of mansions and country clubs in the hopes that it will bring Ri closer to achieving the "American Dream." Her mother disappeared when Ri was young, so when Ri finds an unanswered letter from her mom begging for a visit, Ri decides...
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"A surreal debut novel set on the Texas-Mexico border, blending magical realism, sci-fi, and political parable to tell the story of an everyday man's tumble into a bizarre and sinister criminal underworld. A parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might be erected between the United States and Mexico, narcotics are legal, and there's a new contraband on the market: filtered animals--species brought back from extinction to amuse the very...
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Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families
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A Muslim father tells his daughter why she is special and why she should be proud and celebrate her heritage.
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"Miguel loves horses so he is surprised and excited when he gets permission to join his Uncle Mario on the trip from northern Mexico to Los Angeles to sell a herd of wild broncos. Along the way, crossing the border from Mexico to the United States, they must flee bandits and battle raging rivers and blinding sandstorms."-- P. [4] of cover.