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1) Running
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As seventeen-year-old Rubi secretly juggles participating in a baking competition, improving her grades for college admission, and a newfound romance, she soon realizes she must learn how to manage her family's expectations while finding her own path.
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When Dominguita finds an old map in the back of an even older book in her beloved library, she is excited to see a telltale X marking an unknown place. Everyone knows that X marks the spot for treasure--and Dom knows that means a new adventure for her, Pancho, and Steph!
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While home for winter break, Cameron takes a job as a Christmas elf and finally finds his "people" and possibly "the one" in the fakest consumerist nightmare place on Earth where he least expected it.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
11) Ballad & dagger
Author
Series
Outlaw saints volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
Author
Publisher
Amara, imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Crime reporter Mari Alvarez was never able to solve her mother's murder ten years ago. But when a woman is gunned down on the doorstep of her West Tampa neighborhood, Mari can't shake the eerie sense of connection. Now there have been two murders in two days. Each crime scene awash with arcane clues--and without a trace of DNA from the killer. And for each victim, a doll. The first is missing an eye. The second is missing a heart. But are these clues...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A driven 17-year-old girl whose family life has fallen apart after the death of her Cuban abuela and the divorce of her parents turns to a kitchen apprenticeship in Lyon, France, as the only means to bring order back to her life"--
After the death of her Cuban abuela and the divorce of her parents, Isabella Fields moves in with her dad and his new wife in France. There she feels like an outsider in her father's new life. The upside? Her father's...
Author
Publisher
Vergara y Riba Editoras
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Todo el mundo sabe que las mujeres Santos están malditas. Que solo traen mala suerte y acarrean desgracias. Que si te enamoras de una de ellas tu vida le pertenecerá al mar. Que están destinadas a llorar en los muelles a sus amores perdidos.Y Rosa no es la excepción. Carga sobre sus hombros la superstición y teme a su herencia casi tanto como a su futuro. Hasta que Alex entra a su vida. Un chico con un barco del que definitivamente no debería...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Food anthropologist Miriam Quinones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Rosa Santos, a Cuban American, works to save her Florida town, seeks admittance to study abroad in her homeland, and wonders if love can break her family's curse. Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea-at least, that's what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially if you're a boy with a boat. But Rosa feels more caught than cursed. Caught between cultures and choices. Between her abuela, a beloved healer and pillar of their community, and her mother,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Russo knows nothing about her mother's family or Cuban culture. Every time she's asked about it, her mother has shut down. But when the Cuban grandmother she's never met sends her right-hand man, Luis, to offer Jessica the chance to come to Miami and meet her estranged family, she can't help but say yes, even as she knows it will pain her mother. The woman that Jessica meets is nothing like what she expected. Her grandmother is successful,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon,...
20) Island affair
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sought-after social media influencer Sara Vance, in recovery from an eating disorder, is coming into her own, with a potential career expansion on the horizon. Despite the good news, her successful siblings (and their perfect spouses) have a way of making her feel like the odd one out. So, when her unreliable boyfriend is a no-show for a Florida family vacation, Sara recruits Luis Navarro - a firefighter paramedic and dive captain willing to play...
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