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Soaring earth : a companion memoir to Enchanted air / Margarita Engle.
Engle, Margarita,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: B Eng       Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781534429543
Pub. Info: New York : Atheneum, 2020.
Target Audience: 7.2. 8-12. 1190 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG+ 7.2 2.0

Cuban American poet Margarita Engle offers poems about her experiences in high school, how life changed when the war in Vietnam began, and how in a world surrounded by conflict she was able to find hope and love.
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Alas salvajes / Margarita Engle ; traducciâon de Alexis Romay.
Engle, Margarita,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Eng       Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781665927710
Pub. Info: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, 2024.
Target Audience: 7-12.

Translation of: Wings in the wild.

When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Costa Rica 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.
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Mi buena mala suerte / Ruth Behar.
Behar, Ruth,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Beh       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0593313496 (pbk.)
Pub. Info: Miami : Vintage Espanol, 2022.
Target Audience: 010-014. BTSB.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG Plus 3.5 7.0 522419.

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. In Spanish.
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Running / Natalia Sylvester.
Sylvester, Natalia.

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Syl       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0358663369 (pbk.)
Pub. Info: New York : Clarion, 2022.
Target Audience: 012-016. BTSB.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader UG 5.1 12.0

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.
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Lucky broken girl / Ruth Behar.
Behar, Ruth,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Beh       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0605975574
Pub. Info: copyright2017
Target Audience: 670 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.2 7.0 188393 IN.

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.
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The epic fail of Arturo Zamora / Pablo Cartaya.
Cartaya, Pablo,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Car       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0605979308
Pub. Info: New York : Viking, 2017.
Target Audience: 750 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.0 7.0 190668 IN.

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 Jose Marti.
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Game seven / Paul Volponi.
Volponi, Paul.

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Vol       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0670785180 (trade)
Pub. Info: New York : Viking, c2015.
Target Audience: 012-016. BTSB. HL770. Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG Plus 5.3 8.0 172187.

A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U.S.
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1950s to 1960s / by Richard Worth.
Worth, Richard.

Branch: 1033
Call Number: 305.868 Wor       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0761441778
Pub. Info: New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2010.
Target Audience: 7.7. 5-8 Follett School Solutions.

Explores the migration of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans into the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, their struggles against discrimination, and the changes that took place in the country during this time in history.


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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008028195.html

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