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1) Your mama
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Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text twist classic "your mama" jokes into a celebration of the beauty, power, and love of motherhood.
2) The truth is
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Closed off and grieving her best friend, fifteen-year-old overachiever Verdad faces prejudices at school and from her traditional mother, her father's distance since his remarriage, and her attraction to a transgender classmate." --
Verdad is still struggling to process the recent death of her best friend, Blanca; dealing with the high expectations of her hardworking Puerto Rican mother and the absence of her remarried father; and keeping everyone...
3) Beauty woke
Author
Publisher
Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beauty--who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage--was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
4) Hair story
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Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Hair story
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With rhythmic, rhyming verse, this story follows two girls, one non-Black Puerto Rican, one Black, as they discover the stories their hair can tell.
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In classic stories remixed, Latinx characters take center stage. Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life to save the boy she loves from an evil bruja. La Ciguapa covets a little mermaid's heart of gold. Two star-crossed teens fall in love while the planet burns around them. Whether...