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1) Look back!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
After his Dominican Grannie tells him of her attempts to catch the mischievous Ti Bolam when she was young, Christopher decides he will go after the strange being himself.
2) Point guard
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Series
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265 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
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Pilar Ramirez volume 1
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285 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha -- who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillo dictatorship -- twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life and where her cousin is being held captive in a sinister magical prison, and Pilar must defeat the Dominican boogeyman if she hopes to free Natasha and return home to Chicago....
5) Lola
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Español
Description
When she has to draw a picture of where she immigrated from, Lola asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland.
7) Islandborn
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English
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"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
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174 pages ; 20 cm
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Español
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Worried that Papa Espada cannot find a job, Tía Lola, Juanita, Miguel, and the "Sword" sisters decide to start a bed and breakfast at Colonel Charlebois's Vermont house.
"Con la ayuda de sus sobrinos y de las tres hermanas Espada, tía Lola abrirá a las puertas de la majestuosa casa antigua del coronel Charlbois a visitante de todas las procedencias. Pero pronto se darán cuenta de que poner a funcionar este pequeño hotel no resulta tan facil...
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198 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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English
Description
"High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family - the Beléns - across multiple generations. It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa - and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights too. It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical - and its stories explore machismo,...
14) The poet X
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361 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers -- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"With the English and Spanish text side by side on the page, this bilingual edition of the vibrant picture book celebrating the strength of community and the versatility of plátanos is ideal for bilingual readers as well as Spanish speakers learning English and vice versa. Paletero Man meets Fry Bread in this vibrant and cheerful ode to plátanos, the star of Dominican cuisine, written by award-winning poet Lissette Norman, illustrated by Sara Palacios,...
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348 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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Novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo, about Afro-Latina Xiomara Batista who turns to journalling poetry.
Xiomara Batista se siente ignorada e incapaz de ocultarse en Harlem. Desde que su cuerpo se volvió curvilíneo, aprendió a dejar que sus puños y su fiereza hablaran por ella. Pero X tiene mucho para decir, por eso descarga su frustración en las páginas de un cuaderno y recita las palabras para sí misma como si fueran...
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