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Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In order to heal after his mother's death, Sal learned how to meditate. But no one expected him to be able to take it further and 'relax' things into existence. Turns out he can reach into time and space to retrieve things from other universes.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How big is too big? Alex is excited when his Abuela comes from Cuba to stay with him and his parents. He's always wanted a big family. But then more family members start to arrive. Soon, the house is bursting at the seams. Will Alex get a bigger family than maybe he bargained for?"--Inside front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending Christmas with her Cuban American grandmother in Miami, Florida, young Nina misses her usual New England holiday but enjoys learning about the foods and other traditions her father knew as a child.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Latinx Zoey navigates the tricky waters of friendship and family while searching for a way to save her grandfather's bowling alley from closing"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ages 8-12.
Rafa goes to work on a Rancho Espanto as punishment for a prank gone wrong, where he discovers a mystery as inexplicable as it is familiar and ultimately leads to Rafa learning hard truths about himself.
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when they altered the universe to help their families, they end up creating even more chaos"--
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!
10) A song of frutas
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.
12) Totally psychic
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Paloma Ferrer is psychic. In fact, everyone in her family line has "the gift." Now that Paloma has come into her powers, she dreams of becoming a famous medium to celebrities, just like her beloved grandma. When Paloma's parents move them from Miami to Los Angeles, she hatches a plan to get her career as a medium up and running. But when a reading gone awry leaves Paloma in a sticky situation with a new friend, she'll need more than a crystal ball...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Para convertir una casita en mal estado en un hogar acogedor, todo lo que se necesita es una familia con un corazón muy grande, decidida a ayudar a los demás, y ... un poquito de esperanza. La casita ofrece un hogar a aquellos que no tienen adonde ir. Es un lugar sin miedo y sin peligro en un país nuevo, y Esperanza siempre es la primera en darles la bienvenida a todos."--
"When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When a young Cuban American girl discovers that she's one of the nine muses of Greek mythology, she must use her newfound powers to help a brilliant classmate who is destined to save humanity"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Offers an account of the first fourteen years of the author's life in poems, telling of her time spent between her mother's native Cuba and her home in Los Angeles, until the revolution in Cuba dramatically alters relations between the two countries she loves.
Author
Series
Muse Squad volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While in New York City visiting her family, Callie Martinez-Silva, one of the nine muses of ancient myth, must find an unprecedented tenth muse who has been awakened, which proves to be no easy task.
18) Missing Okalee
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When Pheobe's sister, Okalee, drowns in the river during their annual spring celebration, Phoebe is wracked with guilt to the point that she loses her singing voice"--
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