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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Seventy-year-old patriarch Big Angel de la Cruz is dying, and he wants to have one last birthday blowout. Unfortunately, his 100-year-old mother, America, dies the week of his party, so funeral and birthday are celebrated one day apart. The entire contentious, riotous de la Cruz clan descends on San Diego for the events--"High rollers and college students, prison veternaos and welfare mothers, happy kids and sad old-timers and pinches gringos and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, though, it stands wondrously revealed as a place of marvels, teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Hispano with the Anglo, the women with the men. With the talkative, intimate voice and the stylistic and narrative freedom of a Southwestern...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge...
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Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar's family--especially his wife, Elda--to let him redeem himself. Isabel and Martin settle into married life in a Texas border town,...
9) Mecca
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them"--
Johnny Fra̕s has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie...
10) See Me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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"Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line-- getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle...
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English
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"Cousins Mari, Erica, Selena, and Gracie are inseparable. They aren’t just family but best friends—sharing secrets, traditions, and a fierce love for their abuelita. But their idyllic childhood ends when Mari’s parents divorce, forcing her to move away. With Mari gone, the girls’ tight-knit bond unravels. Fifteen years later, Mari’s got the big house and handsome husband, but her life is in shambles. Erica’s boyfriend just dumped her,...
12) Burro Genius
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Publisher
Rayo/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Standing at the podium, Victor Villasenor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak of these incidents. When he was through, to his great disbelief he received a standing ovation. Many in the audience could not contain their own tears. So begins the passionate,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
Bajo la alambrada -- Soledad -- De dentro hacia afuera -- Un milagro en Tent City -- El ǹgel de oro -- El aguinaldo -- Muerte perdonada -- El costal de algodn̤ -- Cajas de carton̤ -- El juego de la patada -- Tener y retener -- Peregrinos inmv̤iles.
Francisco Jimenez chronicles the experiences he had after his family left Mexico for California when he was just a child.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ronnie Anne is a free-spirited, independent eleven year-old who moves to the big city with her mom and brother to live with their extended family, the Casagrandes. When she's not spending time with her bustling, multi-generational, Mexican-American family, Ronnie Anne and her new best friend Sid explore the city and make fun new friendships along the way. Join their adventures in all twenty episodes of the first season!
16) My family
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of three generations of Mexican Americans.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Mama Fela, a skilled seamstress, is the aging matriarch of the Romero clan in Santa Lucia, a small town in northeastern New Mexico at the height of the Great Depression. Her six-year-old granddaughter and constant companion, Cipriana, delights in the Shirley Temple movies that occasionally come to the town's theater. Through Cipriana's eyes, we see her parents' struggles over money. Graciela, Cipriana's mother, is a teacher in a rural school system...
18) Carmelo
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
20) Drift
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
This story is an unflinching vision of the menace of adolescence, the hard edge of physical labor, and the debts we owe to family.
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