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1) Dark Dude
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Outlaw saints volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
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.
4) Running
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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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
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Just like her mother and grandmother, Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea...at least that's what everyone says. Dating her only brings problems, especially if you are a guy with a boat. Rosa, however, feels more trapped than cursed, especially between her culture and her choices, her grandmother and her mother, and her small town in Florida and Cuba, the island her grandmother won't talk about. As she mulls over her college decision, she literally...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustratons ; 29 cm
Language
English
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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
Series
Merci Suarez volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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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
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
278 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Cuban-American boy must use his ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a witch that transforms into animals.
12) Cuba 15
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.
13) My big family
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
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his “progressive” school still doesn't allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson, who was found dead on the night of the 1985 prom. But that was ages ago, when Luis's parents were in high school; it would never happen today, right? He's determined to find a way to give his LGBTQ friends the respect they deserve (while also not risking his chance to be prom king, just...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
Author
Series
Muse Squad volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first in an action-packed debut middle grade fantasy duology about a Cuban American girl who discovers that she's one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpent's Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
Callie Martinez-Silva didn't mean to turn her best friend into a pop star. But when a simple pep talk leads to miraculous results, Callie learns she's the newest muse of epic poetry,...
Author
Series
Girl's guide (Laura Taylor Namey) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After graduation, everything Lila Reyes had planned for her life fell apart. Her worried parents make a new plan for her: Spend three months with family friends in Winchester, England, to relax and reset. But with the lack of sun, a grumpy inn cook, and a small town lacking Miami flavor (both in food and otherwise), what would be a dream trip for some feels more like a nightmare to Lila. Until she meets Orion Maxwell. A teashop clerk with troubles...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father's increasing restrictions and his mother's fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never could've imagined--a month working on a ranch in New Mexico, far away from his friends, their game, and his mom's...
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