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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist ... Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy--two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming....
2) The jungle
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Jungle butchered the meatpacking industry when it came out in 1906. Exposing the grisly truth of the unsanitary practices that resulted from American wage slavery, the book was "aimed for the public's heart but by accident hit it in the stomach," according to Upton Sinclair. Even with the grossest portions censored out, The Jungle led to the pure-food legislation of 1906 and the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury, one that casts doubt on whether she'll ever be the same. And so, leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel can get better. When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar Tree...
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Formats
Description
San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of it.
12) Soñadores
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"En 1994, Yuyi Morales dejó su hogar en Xalapa, México, para emigrar a Estados Unidos con su hijo pequeño. Aunque dejó atrás casi todas sus pertenencias, no llegó con las manos vacías. Trajo consigo su fortaleza, su trabajo, su pasión, sus esperanzas y sueños... y sus historias. El nuevo y magnífico libro de Yuyi Morales, Soñadores, se centra en la búsqueda por encontrar un hogar en un nuevo lugar. El trayecto de Yuyi y su hijo Kelly no...
13) Mamá the alien
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A young girl misunderstands the word alien on her mother's Resident Alien Card and let's her imagination run wild, coming to the conclusion that her mother is from outer space."--
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident. Told by multiple narrators--Nora...
15) Brooklyn
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Post-World War II, Eilis can't make a living in Ireland, so she heads for teeming New York, where she finds a love with blue-eyed Italian Tony that might be jeopardized by bad news from home.
16) A different pond
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being...
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