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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The day before Christmas, everyone in Jose's neighborhood seems grumpy, including his mother who is homesick for Puerto Rico, but when he and his parents return from the pizzeria where they borrowed an oven to cook their roast, the heavenly aroma reminds those they pass of all they have to celebrate.
Author
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tia Lugo, an asthmatic thirteen-year-old Puerto Rican girl living in NYC, witnesses a murder late one night from her bedroom window. Terrified the killer will do anything to keep her silent and desperate to find the courage to speak out, Tia turns to her grandmother's favorite shopping spot: the botanica."--Provided by publisher.
23) Time villains
Author
Series
Time villains volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home, meets Angel, a free and beautiful boy, at a quinceañera: Beyond flushed, sweating bodies pushed, pushing like cattle below black & buzzing speakers, under a torn pink streamer loose as a tendril of hair--lush-- his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her. Hannah sucks...
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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.
28) Never look back
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eury comes to the Bronx as a girl haunted. Haunted by losing everything in Hurricane Maria--and by an evil spirit, Ato. She fully expects the tragedy that befell her and her family in Puerto Rico to catch up with her in New York. Pheus is a golden-voiced, bachata-singing charmer, ready to spend the summer on the beach with his friends. When he meets Eury, all he wants is to put a smile on her face and fight off her demons. But some dangers are too...
29) The moonlit vine
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
30) When we make it
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Carolina's summer -- and life as she knows it -- is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter's house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows camp, where her bossy older cousin Gabriela rules the social scene. Just as Carolina worries she'll have to spend the entire summer in Gabriela's shadow, she makes a friend of her own in Jennifer,...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Language
English
Description
"A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK! Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don't worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that'll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she's going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favorite feminist author, someone...
35) Becoming Beatriz
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1984 in the barrios of Newark, Beatriz Mendez is looking forward to dancing at her fifteenth birthday, because dancing is her true passion in life, but when her brother Juni, gang-leader of the Puerto Rican gang the Diablos, is killed by the rival Haitian Macoute gang she finds herself thrust into the role of gang-leader and drug dealer--until she meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing.
37) 21
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of baseball star Roberto Clemente and his journey from an impoverished childhood to fame and fortune, as he strives to go the distance for respect.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela en verso inolvidable, torrencial, esperanzadora, que redefine la esperanza. Sarai es primera generación de una familia puertorriqueña que vive en New York. Estudia octavo grado y ya puede ver con claridad la verdad, el dolor y la belleza del mundo, tanto dentro como fuera de su apartamento en Bushwick. Junto con su hermana mayor, Estrella, navega la tensión de traumas familiares, las presiones de la masculinidad tóxica y la inseguridad...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguine Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"¿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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