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Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and latino in the United States / edited by Lori Marie Carlson ; introduction by Oscar Hijuelos.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: 811.008 Red       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0805076166 :
Pub. Info: New York : Henry Holt, c2005.

English and Spanish.

Celebrates bilingual life amid cultures, languages, and identities using poems presented in both English and Spanish.
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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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1898 to World War II / by Roger E. Hernâandez.
Hernâandez, Roger E.

Branch: 1033
Call Number: 973 Her       Collection: TX
ISBN: 076144176X
Pub. Info: New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2010.
Target Audience: 7.3. 5-8 Follett School Solutions.

Explores the economic and political challenges facing Hispanic Americans between 1898 and World War II.
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Brothers in arms / Paul Langan and Ben Alirez.
Langan, Paul.

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Lan       Collection: TX
ISBN: 1591940176 :
Pub. Info: West Berlin, N.J. : Townsend Press, c2004.
Target Audience: 610 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.1 4.0 78142 IN

After his younger brother is killed in a drive-by shooting, Martin must choose between getting revenge and straightening out his life.
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Gamma glamma / Kim Flores.
Flores, Kim.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Flo       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0758222424 (pbk.)
Pub. Info: New York : Kensington ; Godalming : Melia [distributor], 2008.

Freshman Luz Santos's idea for a scientific makeover does not get her kicked out of the regional science fair as she'd hoped it would, and the result of her experiments leaves her lonely when her closest friends become the most popular kids at school.
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The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros.
Cisneros, Sandra.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Cis       Collection: TX
ISBN: 067943335X
Pub. Info: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.
Target Audience: Adult Follett Library Resources. 870 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 3.0 20914 0033

"Originally published, in somewhat different form, by Arte Público Press in 1984. Reprinted by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1991"--T.p. verso.

A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.
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Growing up Latino : memoirs and stories / edited with an introduction by Harold Augenbraum and Ilan Stavans ; foreword by Ilan Stavans.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: SC Aug       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0395661242
Pub. Info: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1993.
Target Audience: Adult Follett Library Resources.

"A Marc Jaffe book."

Collection of classic and recent Latino writing in English.
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Tigers, not daughters / Samantha Mabry.
Mabry, Samantha,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Mab       Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781616208967 (hardcover) :
Pub. Info: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
Target Audience: Ages 15-17. Grades 10-12.

"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"--Provided by publisher.
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The education of Margot Sanchez / Lilliam Rivera.
Rivera, Lilliam,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Riv       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0780424832
Pub. Info: copyright2017
Target Audience: 7-12 Perma-Bound Books. 4.1 Perma-Bound Books. HL580 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader UG 4.1 9.0

Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.
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The closest I've come / Fred Aceves.
Aceves, Fred,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Ace       Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780062488534
Pub. Info: c2017

"Marcos Rivas is desperate to escape the projects, his neglectful mother, and her abusive boyfriend, but when he is picked for a class at his high school targeting smart students who are underperforming, he initially resists"--Title page verso.
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