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62) Bruja born
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Series
Brooklyn brujas volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Next in the Brooklyn Brujas series of fantasy novels that follow three witch born sisters as they develop their powers and battle magic in their hometown and the worlds beyond, from the author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina.
Lula must let go of the ghosts of her past to face the actual living dead of her present.
Lula Mortiz feels like an outsider. Her sister's newfound Encantrix powers have wounded her in ways
...63) Accidental love
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Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After unexpectedly falling in love with a nerdy boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of her behavior, and losing weight.
64) Amelia's road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Colorado history volume no. 2
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
A collection of essays on the history of the Hispano population of Colorado from the 1800's to the present.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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"This second edition adds to the first and only book that offers a leadership model firmly based on the Latino experience and culture. More important than ever before, the expanded and updated edition of The Power of Latino Leadership offers a blueprint for Latinos to lead from their cultural core. Currently 64 million Latinos live in the United States, and it's estimated that by 2060 one-third of the US population will be Latino. Despite Latinos'...
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One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change."Readers who are content to take the primitive and ruthless Maria del Valle on her own terms will treasure her and return to her again and again." --The New York Times"Mr. Waters has created in Old Maria a character of vital and lyrical intensity. His 'people...