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Story of a group of Paisanos, descendants of early Mexican settlers in Northern California. They live in the tiny town of Tortilla Flat and spend their days eating, drinking and relaxing in the sun. When one of them inherits 2 houses the rest are soon living in the houses without paying rent! The situation is further complicated when the house owner falls for a beautiful woman.
8) Taking sides
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1991
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138 p. ; 22 cm.
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Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood. Lincoln Mendoza remains loyal to his former school's basketball team, even after he moves from the barrio to the suburbs and plays for his new school's team. "This touchingly realistic story explores the divided loyalties of a Hispanic basketball player who has...
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Stella Diaz volume 3
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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188 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Stella finds herself overextended as she joins an art club, attempts to fulfill her presidential duties, and takes swim lessons with best friend Jenny.
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Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2005
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147 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
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When her parents move away from their close-knit central Chicago neighborhood and thus her dance classes, Marisol--a lively ten-year-old who loves to dance--realizes that she can keep her passion for dancing no matter where she lives.
17) Labyrinth lost
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Brooklyn brujas volume 1
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"Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back"--
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
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Traveling back in time to 1950s Cuba to stop a mysterious incident that will eventually destroy the Land of the Living, Charlie, Violet and Raúl are pursued by an unspeakable evil as they scour the mountain rainforests of Havana for clues to untangle the past, present and future.
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