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1) I'm new here
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Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
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In this mixed-media collection of short stories, personal essays, poetry, and comics, this celebrated group of authors share the borders they have crossed, the struggles they have pushed through, and the two cultures they continue to navigate as Mexican Americans. Living Beyond Borders is at once an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and hopeful love letter from the Mexican American community to today's young readers.
4) Writings
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
1334 p. ; 21 cm.
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One World
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 20 cm
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1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
7) Thunder Rose
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Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie...
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Goodwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume unpaged : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Bold, graphic portraits and beautiful poems present famous and lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have faced life's challenges in creative ways."--Provided by publisher.
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Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol volume 20
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
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122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.
13) Mac
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three brothers in a volatile Italian-American family struggle to scrape together enough money to start their own business in Queens, New York, in the 1950s.
14) All my rage
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2022.
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Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else...
17) A History of the African American people: the history, traditions, & culture of African Americans
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Smithmark
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.
18) Black magic
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
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Presents a poem celebrating the African-American experience and what it means to be part of a strong, proud, and free people.
19) 'Twas nochebuena
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Viking, Published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
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Explores Latin American traditions for celebrating Christmas Eve in a text that combines English and Spanish words and follows the rhythm of Clement Moore's "The Night Before Christmas".
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