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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición en español.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day, then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish-Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? Using the true story of the folk hero...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
8) Mountain dog
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1991. The people of Cuba are living in el periodo especial en tiempos de paz - the special period in times of peace. That's what the government insists that this era must be called, but the reality behind these words is starvation. Hunger has made Liana brave: she finds the courage to skip a summer of so-called volunteer farm labor, even though she risks government retribution. Amado also refuses to comply, so he wanders alone, trying to discover...
11) La selva
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Primera edicion.
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
A Edver no le hace ninguna gracia que lo envíen a Cuba a ver al padre que apenas conoce. Sin embargo, ahora que las leyes de viaje han cambiado y es mucho más fácil reunir a las familias divididas, su mamá piensa que es hora de que padre e hijo pasen tiempo juntos. Edver no se imagina lo que le depara el verano, ¡pero definitivamente no espera conocer a la hermana que ni siquiera sabía que existía! Luza es un año mayor y está muy entusiasmada...
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