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Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Deftly written and fiercely resilient, América's Dream explores the ever-shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant who has dared to realize the American dream.
América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her;...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Luis "Lucky" Martinez is the new kid on River Valley Junior High's JV soccer team, but his goalie skills are not the only thing being tested. When a school talent show opens for auditions, Luis will find out if he's inherited his abuela's musical skills. Can Luis juggle both, or will he have to choose which of his passions to save: soccer or music?
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus. 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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.
10) Blazewrath Games
Author
Series
Blazewrath volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete in the Blazewrath World Cup, a tournament where dragons and their riders fight for glory in a dangerous relay. Lana longs to represent her native Puerto Rico in their first ever World Cup appearance, and when Puerto Rico's Runner, the only player without a dragon steed, is kicked off the team, she's given the chance. But when she discovers that a former...
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 3
Pub. Date
c2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A war is brewing among the different Houses, some of Sierra's shadowshapers are still in jail, and the House of Shadow and Light has been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, and even though one spy was exposed Sierra is not quite sure who she can trust--but the deal with Death made by one of her ancestors has given her power, and she will need to control it and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future.
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Like most young children, Mimi loves Christmas time, so much so that she doesn't even mind the bitter cold. But while her friends plan to ask for skates, sleds, coats and boots for Christmas, Mimi wants a straw hat, new sandals, a polka-dot bathing suit, and maybe even a beach ball. Mimi especially looks forward to her annual parranda, the Puerto Rican version of Christmas caroling. But when she learns that her family won't be able to go to Puerto...
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