Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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 remindsthose they pass of all they have to celebrate.
Author
Appears on list
Description
"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--
4) Shadowshaper
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 1
Appears on these lists
Description
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"When Miguel and his parents move from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland, Miguel misses their home, his grandparents, and his pet frog, Coqu?, but he soon realizes that New York City has more in common with back home than he originally thought"--
Author
Formats
Description
"Tia Lugo considers herself an ordinary thirteen-year-old girl. She just wants to enjoy the end of summer, which means hanging out with her best friend and neighbor, Julius, and ignoring her Puerto Rican grandmother's embarrassing reliance on creepy candles, weird-smelling herb bundles, and eerie statues - all available for sale at the nearby botanica. But when Tia witnesses a murder late one night from her bedroom window, everything changes in an...
7) Alondra
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
368 pages
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.
9) Hair story
Author
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
It's eleven days after Christmas and Luc�ia yearns to be in lush Puerto Rico celebrating D�ia de los Reyes with family and friends. But this year, instead of dancing and singing in the parrandas of her Puerto Rican neighborhood, she is surrounded by cold and silence in snow-blanketed Ohio. How will she ever be able to guide the Three Kings to her new home in the frosty Midwest? This picture book is a celebration of Puerto Rican culture, heartwarming...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Struggling with her Puerto Rican identity, her grandfather's memory loss and transfer to a nursing home, and her sister's depression, seventh-grader Cassi joins the Mathletes at school, finding comfort in numbers and in her new friendship with Aaron.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"It’s almost Three Kings Day, and while the grownups prepare a large meal, the kids prepare their shoe boxes for los Reyes to arrive later that night. Will they stay up late enough to wish the Kings a Feliz Día de los Reyes?" --book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
16) Time villains
Author
Series
Time villains volume 1
Formats
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.
17) Never look back
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 2 x 15 cm.
Description
The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; cm
Description
"When Miguel and his parents move from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland, Miguel misses their home, his grandparents, and his pet frog, Coquai, but he soon realizes that New York City has more in common with back home than he originally thought"--
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title