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1) Light of day
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When high school senior Gabby learns that men are drugging girls and forcing them into prostitution, she fights back using the popular radio show she hosts and captures the attention of X, a mysterious gang member determined to get pimps off the streets of Miami, who, in turn, captures her heart.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Daisy Ramona recorre el vecindario con su padre en su tocicleta y ve personas y lugares familiares, pero también una comunidad que está cambiando rápidamente a su alrededor.
Daisy Ramona takes a trip around the neighborhood with her father on his motorcycle and sees familiar people and places but also a community that is rapidly changing around her.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English.
Sumario en español: Cuando la niña Lucy viaja desde América Latina a Ohio para visitar a los parientes, ella es muy nostálgica hasta enterarse que la única manera de comunicarse con el perro juguetón de su primo es aprender hablar inglés.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese's Book Club pick, comes an exquisite collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise. Two Colombian expats meet as strangers on the rainy streets of New York City, both burdened with traumatic pasts. In Cuba, a woman discovers her deceased brother's bones have...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
The author's first novel is a story about an American girl in Paris, who navigates the intoxicating and treacherous complexities of independence, friendship, and romance. Lita del Cielo, the daughter of two Colombian orphans who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire, has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before she must return to work in the family business. She moves into a gently crumbling...