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1) Kween
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: A searing, joyful YA debut about a queer Cambodian American teen’s journey to find her voice and step into her legacy, perfect for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Elizabeth Acevedo.
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"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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"La Madre de Efrén Nava es su Superwoman, a Soperwoman, llamada asi por los deliciosos sopes mexicanos que suele preparar. Su amá y su apá trabajan duro todo el día para mantener a la familia, asegurándose de que Efrén y sus hermanos menores, Max y Mía, se sientan seguros y queridos. Pero Efrén se preocupa por sus padres. Aunque nació en Estados Unidos, sus padres son indocumentados. Su peor pesadilla se vuelve realidad cuando su amá no...
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Gaby Ramirez Howard loves volunteering at the local animal shelter. Her mother has been deported to Honduras and Gaby is stuck living with her inattentive dad. She's confident that her mom will come home soon so that they can adopt Gaby's favorite shelter cat together. But Gaby worries that her plans for the perfect family are about to fall apart.
7) Indivisible
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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.
8) Mango moon
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Maricela, her brother Manuel, and mother face many challenges when her father is taken away to face deportation, but love binds them close." --
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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1931. In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl. Resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos in their town of Monteseco, Texas, her whole family becomes a target of repatriation efforts to send Mexicans back to Mexico whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. Dumped...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
"...[C]uenta la emotiva historia de un ni?o que lleg? a un acuerdo con la deportaci?n de su familia de los Estados Unidos a M?xico. Una poderosa meditaci?n sobre el hogar y la identidad en un momento en que nuestro pa?s lo necesita con urgencia"--Amazon.com.
Tells the emotional story of a boy coming to terms with his family's deportation from the United States to Mexico. A powerful meditation on home and identity at a time when our country sorely...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Gaby necesita un hogar estable. Su madre ha sido deportada a Honduras y Gaby se siente perdida. Mientras tanto, un gato del refugio de animales donde Gaby trabaja necesita ayuda. ¿Podrá Gaby adoptarlo?
Gaby Howard loves volunteering at the local animal shelter. Her mother has been deported to Honduras and Gaby is stuck living with her inattentive dad. She's confident that her mom will come home soon so that they can adopt Gaby's favorite shelter...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
“You can be my boyfriend.” It only takes five words to change Güero’s life at the end of seventh grade. The summer becomes extra busy as he learns to balance new band practice with his old crew, Los Bobbys, and being Joanna Padilla’s boyfriend. They call her “fregona” because she’s tough, always sticking up for her family and keeping the school bully in check. But Güero sees her softness. Together they cook dollar-store spaghetti and...
14) Ojalá supieras
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
Description
"Un cuento oportuno y conmovedor sobre la incertidumbre que siente una joven cuando deportan a su padre--y la empat̕a que crece cuando compartimos y nos escuchamos unos a los otros. Un cuento oportuno y conmovedor sobre la incertidumbre que siente una joven cuando deportan a su padre--y la empat̕a que crece cuando compartimos y nos escuchamos unos a los otros."--Provided by publisher.
15) Efren dividido
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Efren Navas Ama is his Superwoman--or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. Both Ama and Apa work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efren and...
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