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Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when they altered the universe to help their families, they end up creating even more chaos"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
10) Totally psychic
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paloma Ferrer is psychic. In fact, everyone in her family line has "the gift." Now that Paloma has come into her powers, she dreams of becoming a famous medium to celebrities, just like her beloved grandma. When Paloma's parents move them from Miami to Los Angeles, she hatches a plan to get her career as a medium up and running. But when a reading gone awry leaves Paloma in a sticky situation with a new friend, she'll need more than a crystal ball...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father's increasing restrictions and his mother's fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never could've imagined -- a month working on a ranch in New Mexico, far away from his friends, their game, and his...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
While spending Christmas with her Cuban American grandmother in Miami, Florida, young Nina misses her usual New England holiday but enjoys learning about the foods and other traditions her father knew as a child.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always...
Author
Language
English
Description
Frank Fernandez's family never stays in one place for long. His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family moves -- a lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends. So when his parents announce they're moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, to live in a lighthouse -- this time for good! -- Frank is thrilled.But Spectacle Key isn't the perfect forever home they'd imagined. The lighthouse is falling apart....
16) Dark Dude
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Fidel Castro's government takes over their restaurant in 1960, six-year-old Gabriella and her parents move from Cuba to New York City.
18) My big family
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"How big is too big? Alex is excited when his Abuela comes from Cuba to stay with him and his parents. He's always wanted a big family. But then more family members start to arrive. Soon, the house is bursting at the seams. Will Alex get a bigger family than maybe he bargained for?"--Inside front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sofía Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces, " the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.
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