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2023 Caldecott & Newbery Awards (SCPL-YS)
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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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2023 Youth Services Favorites (SCPL-YS)
2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.
3) Hair story
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Illustrations and rhythmic, rhyming text follow a Boricua girl and a Black girl from birth through early childhood, culminating in a playdate where they celebrate their natural hair.
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OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
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Seventeen-year-old Kat Sanchez uses photos of a friend to create a fake Instagram account, but when one of her posts goes viral and exposes Kat's duplicity, her entire world--both real and pretend--comes crashing down around her.
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Time villains volume 1
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When a homework assignment and a magic table summon real and fictional people from history, including the bloodthirsty pirate Blackbeard, sixth-grader Javi, his brawny younger sister Brady, and his brainy best friend Wiki join forces to save the world.
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Could you plan the Fall Formal with your (hot) nemesis? Whit Rivera is about to find out. Frenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her in, like, the most embarrassing way imaginable), so when they're forced to organize the fall formal together, it's a literal disaster. Sparks fly as Whitney -- type-A, passionate, a perfectionist, and a certified sweater-weather fanatic -- butts heads with Zay, a dry, relaxed...
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Caribbean American Heritage Month (teens)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
Caribbean American Heritage Month (teens)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
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A first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader, Sarai can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. As she questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination...
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In this heartfelt story about self-discovery, Miles Morales, aka Spider-Man, explores what it means to be an artist, a superhero and himself as he befriends a fellow artist who helps him learn more about his Puerto Rican heritage and the importance of his neighborhood.
12) Monster problems
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Time villains volume 2
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When Finistere's stern acting principal, Ms. Vlad, invites Mr. Dragon to be her vice-principle, the students immediately adore him, but unbeknownst to them, he is nefariously planning to take over the world, and it is up to Javi to stop him before it is too late.
13) Alondra
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"Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers"--
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"¿Cùnto tiempo tienes que vivir en un lugar antes de que puedas llamarlo casa? Laura Rodr̕guez Col̤n tiene un plan: no importa lo que digan los adultos, ella vivir̀ nuevamente con sus padres. Despǔs de todo, ¿c̤mo les explicas a los dem̀s que est̀s en un hogar de acogida, aunque sea el apartamento tu t̕a? ¿C̤mo explicas que quieres volver a casa?"--
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When Iris, her family, and the neighbors take a trip to Enchanted Lake, everyone brings what they think is needed, but the family dog turns out to present a problem.
Iris y su familia, y sobre todo El Exigente, tienen muchas ganas de llegar al lago... pero con tantos contratiempos, ¿llegarán algún día?
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Forced to stay with her mother in Puerto Rico for weeks after her grandmother's funeral, half-Jewish Emily, who has just graduated from a Westchester, New York, high school, does not find it easy to connect with her Puerto Rican heritage and relatives she had never met.
20) Poe Park
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After graduating from his fifth grade class in the Bronx, Enoch looks forward to spending time with his best friend Spence, but must instead cope with grief, gang violence, and the arrival from Puerto Rico of his half-brother Miguel.