Aida Salazar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Many immigrants of color set out across continents, oceans, and borders, travelling to the United States in pursuit of opportunity: scientists, athletes and artists have succeeded, bringing fame to America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl, who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places, a family detention center for migrants and refugees.
Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
La vida de Celi Rivera es un torbellino de preguntas... por los cambios en su cuerpo, por sentirse atraída por un chico por primera vez y por la exploración que hace su mejor amiga de lo que significa ser género fluido.
Pero, sobre todo, por la insistencia de su madre en hacerle una ceremonia lunar cuando le llegue su primer periodo. Se trata de un ancestral ritual mexica que Mima y su comunidad han rescatado, pero Celi se promete a sí misma...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of a dream, many immigrants of color set out across continents, oceans, and borders, travelling to the United States in pursuit of opportunity. This audiobook is a celebration of 13 American immigrants of color, from world-famous to local heroes, politicians, surgeons, athletes, activists and more.
The biographies included feature engineer and astronaut Anousheh Ansari, Paralympic athlete and entrepreneur Alejandro Albor, surgeon Ayub...
9) Ultraviolet
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
"Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un lugar llamado Aztlán, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa 'tierra de las grullas', y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitlán, la actual Ciudad de México. Cuenta una profesía que...
11) When moon blooms
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Series
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As a child admires the moon, their mother imparts Mexican Indigenous wisdom of the moon's phases as they relate to our bodies and lives.
Author
Publisher
Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Lula Viramonte anhela ser una persona a la que nadie pueda ignorar. Por eso quiere ser directora de en un circo ambulante mexicano. Pero perseguir los sueños es difícil cuando hay que trabajar en la cosecha de uva en Delano, California; cuidar a la madre enferma y a los hermanos, evitar que se desate el temperamento volátil de papá. Entonces Lula conoce a Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong y a otros activistas por los derechos de los agricultores y...
13) Neverforgotten
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Fabio flies through the streets of Bogot©Ł on his bicycle, the children of his neighborhood trailing behind him. It is there that life feels right-where the world of adults, and their lies, fades away. But then one day, he simply forgets. Forgets how to ride his bicycle. And Fabio will never be the same again" -- Jacket flap.
"Fabio vuela por las calles de Bogotá en us bicicleta, seguido por los niños de su barrio. Es allí donde la vida es...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or totally in the dark, the young people in these sixteen...
15) La panza de mamá
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Un libro infantil sobre el amor que le tiene un niño a su madre y a la barriga de su madre y que a la vez es una celebración del cuerpo. Todo el mundo tiene una panza: puede ser grande y redonda, blanda y pequeña o algo intermedio. Pero la panza favorita de un pequeño niño es la de su mamá. Su panza es capaz de cosas extraordinarias y ella la ama como una parte importante de sí misma. La panza de su mamá también fue su primer hogar. Antes...
16) Ojalá supieras
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Cuando el padre de Estrella tiene que irse porque no nació aquí como su hija. ella lo extraña. Estrella quisiera que la gente supiera cómo esto la afecta en casa, en la escuela, siempre. Su escuela rodea un roble centenario, y ese árbol es el lugar perfecto para compartir, porque nadie está solo si otros están dispuestos a escuchar.
After Estrella's father is deported because he is an illegal immigrant, her teacher at school invites her...