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Oliver La Farge - Young Adult
Fiction McCall, G
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Fiction McCall, G
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Southside - Young Adult
Fiction McCall, G
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Fiction McCall, G
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When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself witih her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
1931. In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl. Resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. When Estrella organizes a protest...
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Main Library - Children's Juvenile
305.23092 Ame
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305.23092 Ame
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Southside - Children's Juvenile
305.23092 Ame
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305.23092 Ame
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In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful images and definitions along with their personal stories of...
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Oliver La Farge - Young Adult
Fiction Zoboi, I
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Fiction Zoboi, I
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Southside - Young Adult
Fiction Zoboi, I
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Fiction Zoboi, I
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On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie -- a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit's West Side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own. Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world,...
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Main Library - Young Adult
305.8915 Sae
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305.8915 Sae
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Southside - Young Adult
305.8915 Sae
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305.8915 Sae
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"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being...
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Main Library - Young Adult
Fiction Mendez, M
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Fiction Mendez, M
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Oliver La Farge - Young Adult
Fiction Mendez, M
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Fiction Mendez, M
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Southside - Young Adult
Fiction Mendez, M
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Fiction Mendez, M
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"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--
Juan plans to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself. His best friend JD has plans to be a filmmaker one day; he's got a camera and passion, what else could he need? Juan's mom, Fabi, doesn't have...
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Main Library - Young Adult
Fiction Johnston, T
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Fiction Johnston, T
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Southside - Young Adult
Fiction Johnston, T
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Fiction Johnston, T
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Having faced great danger, twelve-year-old Manuel finally succeeds in hopping a train out of Mexico but after reuniting with his brother in Los Angeles, he realizes something is not right.
7) The Border
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One moment changed their lives forever. A band plays, glasses clink, and four teens sneak into the Mexican desert, the hum of celebration receding behind them. Crack. Crack. Crack. Not fireworks-gunshots. The music stops. And Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys are powerless as the lives they once knew are taken from them. Then they are seen by the gunmen. They run. Except they have nowhere to go. The Narcos responsible for their families' murders have...
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Main Library - Children's Juvenile
Fiction Rauf, O
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Fiction Rauf, O
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Juvenile
Fiction Rauf, O
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Fiction Rauf, O
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Southside - Children's Juvenile
Fiction Rauf, O
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Fiction Rauf, O
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When quiet, nine-year-old Ahmet arrives in their classroom, a boy and his friends fail to draw him out but try a new plan after learning he is a Syrian refugee.
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This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave - the hope that lies behind their decision, but also the terrible sadness of leaving home. We learn about how far and hard the trip is, but also about the kindness of those along the way. Finally, once the caravan arrives...
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Juvenile
Fiction Jiménez, F
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Fiction Jiménez, F
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These stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots-- and back again-- over a number of years.
11) The crossroads
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"Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse."--
12) Dancing home
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When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she's embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
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Main Library - Media / Spanish
CD spoken Fiction Alvarez, J
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CD spoken Fiction Alvarez, J
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When his father is injured in a tractor accident, eleven-year-old Tyler finds himself at odds as migrant Mexican workers are illegally hired to upkeep the family farm. As the migrants live in constant fear of deportation, Tyler strikes up a friendship with the family's oldest daughter, Mari.
14) Disappeared
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Main Library - Young Adult
Fiction Stork, F
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Fiction Stork, F
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Southside - Young Adult
Fiction Stork, F
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Fiction Stork, F
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Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
973.04687 Gra
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973.04687 Gra
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Southside - Adult
973.04687 Gra
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973.04687 Gra
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Southside - Children's Juvenile
305.8968 Gra
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305.8968 Gra
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When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...
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Main Library - Children's Juvenile
811.54 Eng
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811.54 Eng
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Juvenile
811.54 Eng
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811.54 Eng
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Southside - Children's Juvenile
811.54 Eng
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811.54 Eng
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"A middle grade verse history of Latinos in the United States, told through the voices of many and varied individuals ranging from Juan Ponce de León to modern-day sixth graders"--
17) Efrén divided
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Main Library - Children's Juvenile
J Fiction Cisneros, E
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J Fiction Cisneros, E
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Juvenile
J Fiction Cisneros, E
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J Fiction Cisneros, E
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Oliver La Farge - Young Adult
Fiction Cisneros, E
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Fiction Cisneros, E
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While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
18) La encrucijada
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Main Library - Children's Juvenile / Spanish
Fiction Diaz, A
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Fiction Diaz, A
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Juvenile / Spanish
Fiction Diaz, A
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Fiction Diaz, A
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"Jaime Rivera pensó que después de cruzar México y entrar en Estados Unidos, lo peor había quedado atrás. No podía ser muy dificil comenzar en una escuela nueva. Pero lo es. Y no solamente porque casi no habla inglés. Mientras que su prima hermana Ángela se adaptó rapidamente e hizo nuevos amigos y se envolvió en actividades después de clases, Jaime siente que este lugar extraño no es su "hogar." Su hogar de verdad es con sus padres, con...
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Documents the journey of a Honduran teen who braved hardship and peril to reunite with his mother after she was forced to leave him behind and seek migratory work in the United States.
20) Esperanza renace
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Juvenile / Spanish
Fiction Ryan, P
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Fiction Ryan, P
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Southside - Children's Juvenile / Spanish
Fiction Ryan, P
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Fiction Ryan, P
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Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. Esperanza Ortega has a wonderful life in Mexico until tragedy shatters her dream and forces her and her mother to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp.
Esperanza, recuerdas...