Almarie Guerra
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Cece Rios volume 1
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English
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Encanto Read-alikes
For Fans of... Percy Jackson & the Olympians (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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For Fans of... Percy Jackson & the Olympians (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
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English
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2023 Youth Services Favorites (SCPL-YS)
2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.
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English
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At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
"What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots. "Things are only impossible if you stop to think...
4) Bump
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English
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OBD Sports Books (Brochure) - YOUTH
Score! Middle Grade Sports Books (SCPL-YS)
Staff Picks - June 2023
Score! Middle Grade Sports Books (SCPL-YS)
Staff Picks - June 2023
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"MJ knows what it means to hurt. Bruises from gymnastics heal, but big hurts, like her dad not being around anymore, don't go away. Now her mom needs to work two jobs, and MJ doesn't have friends at school to lean on. There is only one thing MJ loves: the world of professional wrestling. She especially idolizes the luchadores and the stories they tell in the ring. When MJ learns that her neighbor, Mr. Arellano, runs a wrestling school, she has a new...
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Series
Brooklyn brujas volume 1
Language
English
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Bewitching Reads - Teen
Celebrate Pride Month
FPPL Latine & Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 - YA
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Celebrate Pride Month
FPPL Latine & Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 - YA
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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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English
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AMPL National Hispanic Heritage
2023 Read Widely: Central & South America
Adult - Hispanic Heritage Month
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2023 Read Widely: Central & South America
Adult - Hispanic Heritage Month
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"Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission...
7) Two degrees
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English
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2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
Middle School Books (teens)
OBD Read, Renew, Repeat - Summer 2024 YOUTH
Middle School Books (teens)
OBD Read, Renew, Repeat - Summer 2024 YOUTH
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"Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is riding her horse in the California woods when a wildfire sparks--and grows scarily fast. How can she make it to safety when there are flames everywhere? Owen and his best friend, George, are used to seeing polar bears on the snowy Canadian tundra. But when one bear gets way too close for comfort, do the boys have any chance of surviving? Natalie hunkers down at...
8) Salsa magic
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English
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"Thirteen-year-old Maya Beatriz Montenegro Calderon has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, Ini, Mini, and Mo, aren't at school, you can usually find three generations of Calderones at Café Taza, serving up sandwiches de...
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English
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It is 1970 in Red Grove, Alabama, and at Lu Olivera's school the white kids and black kids sit on different sides of the classroom. Six-grader Lu just wants to get along with everyone, but growing racial tensions will not let Lu stay neutral about the racial divide in school. Her old friends have been changing lately--acting boy crazy and making snide remarks about Lu's newfound talent for running track. Lu's secret hope for a new friend is fellow...
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English
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"One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoir. Voluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been modeling professionally since the age of thirteen. Discovered at a shopping mall in Nebraska, her stunning face and sexy curves have graced the covers of top magazines, including...
11) Roller girl
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English
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2024 Women's History Month for Kids
Friendship Stories (WPL-Youth)
If You Liked...Babysitters Club
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Friendship Stories (WPL-Youth)
If You Liked...Babysitters Club
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"A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"--
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English
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In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
13) Chilling effect
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Chilling effect volume 1
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English
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Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship's hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead...
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English
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GPLD Best Sci-Fi for Teens
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
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"Three Latinx teenagers struggle to deal with encounters with an alien, and try to warn the world of the possibility of an alien invasion"--
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Best babysitters ever volume 2
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English
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Just when Malia, Dot, and Bree corner the Playa Del Mar babysitting market, their lives get even busier and Malia comes up with a plan to outsource their babysitting jobs.
18) Valiant ladies
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In Potosí, a silver mining city in the new Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, two teen vigilantes set out to expose corruption and deliver justice after Kiki's brother is murdered and the prostitute he loved disappears. Includes author's note.
19) The fate of ten
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Series
Lorien Legacies volume 6
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English
Description
In order to thwart the Mogadorian invasion, a group of the Garde head to a pyramid in Mexico in order to awaken a power that can save the world.